Things to fix: Need a richer text/post editor that also allows inline images & albums. Need easier post/comment editing (a la Facebook). Android/G+ photo aut

Things to fix: Need a richer text/post editor that also allows inline images & albums. Need easier post/comment editing (a la Facebook). Android/G+ photo autobackup is great, but god help you if you ever want or need to access those photos. The current method of manually moving a max of 500 at a time into other albums is a non-starter, especially if you had set auto-backup to also backup other local image folders from your mobile devices (Whatsapp/Telegram, photo editors, etc). The client is waaaaaaay too heavy. G+ is unusable on a Chromebook if you have Gmail and more than one or two other tabs open. The half-assed merging of Picasa web albums into G+ was aggressively user-unfriendly. There are a lot of us who still use the quite excellent Picasa desktop app for light photo editing and album management. The G+ album viewer/browser is horrifically bad. Photo commenting is pretty much broken. You can comment, but it's pretty antisocial, unlike imgur/instagram/facebook. A lot of content houses & brands don't publish to G+, or if they do, it's half-assed secondary crap that seems to just be bots posting links. Very few seem to interact with the G+ community. The Hangouts integration is heavy & crappy compared to the nice and light fb chat integration, and almost no one seems to know about video chat, much less the ability to (in some countries) dial phones via Hangouts. The idea of Communities is a good one, but it operates as sort of the opposite of Usenet. If someone leaves a community or deletes their account (granted, this may be a bigger problem for Google Apps for Work customers) all their content goes with them. As other commenters have noted, G+ seems to have been created with the mission statement of being everything to everyone, but in the process it has alienated many and broken a lot. I suggest focusing on fixing the discrete parts and only then deciding whether it makes sense to integrate them. I, for one, am thankful to at least be able to use my Google/G+ credentials to login to a bunch of common sites now, so it has that going for it.