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Well this is a first step. This and more is long overdue but its a start. I love Google+ because it seems to encourage much more in the way of long-form status

Well this is a first step. This and more is long overdue but its a start. I love Google+ because it seems to encourage much more in the way of long-form status updates, and public followers are much more "OK" than they ever were for Facebook. A lot of people use G+ as a de-facto blog. For exmaple see Tom Anderson of MySpace fame (he also takes a lot of pretty photos): https://plus.google.com/+myspacetom/posts https://plus.google.com/+myspacetom/posts Look at his posts. That's a blog. Isn't that a blog? Now that they've got this honestly great market differentiating feature (from FB), why on earth hasn't blogger been subsumed into G+ to make an actually good blogging platform? A powerful network of profiles and blogs where people can easily share/comment/solicit collaboration? That would be amazing. Easily better than svbtle. Come on Google+, marry Blogger already. You could be a powerhouse of storytelling in a way that Facebook wishes it could be.

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incision 14y ago
I generally agree. For everything done right with G+ there's something else which I'd say is plainly wrong or a huge oversight. For example, Communities do a good job of facilitating limited sharing beyond your circles but they were implemented without support for posting from mobile and no option to prevent public community posts from being included in your public stream. Both of those things have since been fixed, but I think it speaks to the same thing we're seeing here - Incomplete or outright lacking features that hurt obvious, compelling uses of the platform. Tom there is running a blog on G+ despite the lack of basic functions for formatting, linking and categorizing posts.
- mtgx 14y ago
  Someone had an idea of integrating Communities into Wordpress blogs, too, as sort of a forum replacement. I thought it was a pretty good idea, since they kind of act that way. You get "groups" of post, and then you can see everyone's post as a forum thread. I'd much rather implement something like that than BBPress.

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incision 14y ago

I generally agree. For everything done right with G+ there's something else which I'd say is plainly wrong or a huge oversight. For example, Communities do a good job of facilitating limited sharing beyond your circles but they were implemented without support for posting from mobile and no option to prevent public community posts from being included in your public stream. Both of those things have since been fixed, but I think it speaks to the same thing we're seeing here - Incomplete or outright lacking features that hurt obvious, compelling uses of the platform. Tom there is running a blog on G+ despite the lack of basic functions for formatting, linking and categorizing posts.

mtgx 14y ago
Someone had an idea of integrating Communities into Wordpress blogs, too, as sort of a forum replacement. I thought it was a pretty good idea, since they kind of act that way. You get "groups" of post, and then you can see everyone's post as a forum thread. I'd much rather implement something like that than BBPress.