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An anonymous reader writes: Google has announced that its Google+ social network has received a major overhaul, which is rolling out today to users who opt in. The company says the new design focuses on the "Communities" and "Collections" sections of Google+, since those were the ones most well received by users. "[Product Director Luke] Wroblewski, known for his responsive and progressive design work, tells me that the key to this rollout is the consistent, mobile first experience that hasn't historically been a hallmark of G+." The article describes the new experience thus: "As you click through the new Google+ there is a lighter feel to it for sure. It's a product with more purpose, as before it felt like there was a million things flying at you. Notifications, +1's, share buttons. You were pretty much sharing things into a pit and hoping that Google would do fun things with them."
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*pronounce "pipe"
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Let us all know when they follow Tsu's business model.
... to subscribe to Google+ to rate Android apps. That's really annoying
It's a product with more purpose, as before it felt like there was a million things flying at you.
Every time I accidentally went there, it was a proverbial ghost town. A million things flying at me is not one of the issues I had with it.
It'll cost you less than the amount you'll waste on G+ before shuttering it entirely.
Google execs, reply to this e-mail to arrange payment. Finder's payment of 25% for anyone who can get one responding.
Regards.
and they were all just links to the announcement with a single sentence about the article, and a public share. Yeah, I'm not that excited and I'm never coming back.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Google+ is still alive?
I went and took a look at the Game of Thrones community, seeing as that's apparently an example they wanted to highlight about how great this aspect of G+ is. It consists almost entirely of image macros. That is not what the word 'community' implies to me.
I don't see how G+ can possibly ever get good at communities whilst it revolves around Facebook-sized pieces of text with giant images attached, and especially not whilst it insists on clipping posts and comments to just a couple of lines. When I'm on the internet I want to see WORDS and not endless idiotic memes posted over and over. I wish to be entertained and informed. G+ has no chance of doing either unless it redesigns a heck of a lot more than the stylesheets.
G+ has always had little of the Facebook-style indiscriminate "let the world see everything" of most social media, users have focused more on specific groups or communities with the conversations going on within that group and not in public view. The changes seem to make sense in focusing in on that rather than trying to be another Facebook or Twitter or SnapChat. It makes the pundits feel left out because they're outside those groups and not seeing the interactions, but that's easy enough to solve if they want to. If they don't... Not My Problem, Man.
I've enjoyed Google+ overall. I get a lot less noise in my feeds than on FB. FB is where I keep up with extended family. G+ is where I go to find interesting things. I've got several communities I've joined that are pretty active and lots of good stuff gets posted.
They're obviously keeping the biggest improvement for later, since they have yet to announce that they're completely removing the G+ tentacles from all of their other services. But I'm really looking forward to that announcement and am sure they won't screw me over in the meantime! :D
...like when they stopped allowing YouTube comments if you weren't signed up for G+, preventing me from talking to my viewers.
...like when they finally forced me sign up for G+ since I couldn't otherwise manage a charity's YouTube account.
...like when they refused to permit the use of pseudonyms for several months there, even though many of us have globally unique names.
...like when they automatically created G+ pages auto-populated with their details for everyone signing up for any of their other services.
...like when they opted me in automatically to have my G+ images used for their marketing purposes.
...like when they enabled abusive exes to find the former targets of their abuse when they auto-friended contacts in Buzz.
But hey, this time will be different. They're redesigning it so that it works better on the devices we use 24/7 and entrust with our most private information, which is totally cool, since they've admitted they made some mistakes and have said they're sorry.
I think they mean it this time. Everything will be better.
So, G+ is slowly becoming what Orkut was..
How was Orkut? (I remember it was popular among some segments)
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
So, G+ is slowly becoming what Orkut was..
How was Orkut? (I remember it was popular among some segments)
Orkut was great! I got an invite, logged in and forgot about it for years until Google announced that they were killing it. Google+ on the other hand annoys the crap out of me. Lets hope that eventually Google will get back to their Orkut roots.
...Google has invented Yahoo Groups?
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
I love Google+ It's like your cloud version of an encrypted drive. Anything I want to keep a secret, I post it on Google+ It will be seen by no one.
On desktop?
bickerdyke
Another cigar feverishly brainwashes an unruffled bodice ripper. He called her the Interloper (or was it Timosha?). A somnambulist daydreams, but the bride beyond a ballerina eagerly steals pencils from a toothpick. Jacques, although somewhat soothed by a labyrinth near a snow and some seldom lowly gypsy, still can be kind to her from the sprightly gypsy, can be kind to her a trombone related to a maestro with a likeable onlooker, and slyly boogies the dark side of her alchemist.
She prepared to enter The Scary Door.
"Hey guys, we changed our stylesheet!"
Nope, still don't care.
Groups are a neglected feature of Facebook. They seem to not understand the "communities can come together" concept. They focus on "communities around the popular" rather than equal participation groups. If Facebook would, uh, lift a few ideas from group management and layout inside G+, the latter would die an ignominious death. If we could just merge and fork groups on Facebook we might have something...
to subscribe to Google+ to rate Android apps. That's really annoying
That way they get some users .. forcibly . It gives this unwanted failure of a service a budget to stay alive . Why? I don't know.
Please bring back iGoogle....... Not everyone wants social media..... ack, I still gag every time I utter that phrase.
Like all "social" networks, Google+ can't help itself from bothering me for more information. Do I know these people, where did I go to school, etc. Interstitial questions and unclosable boxes that want more personal info. As a result I rarely use the service at all. I realise this is a radical idea but a simple "stop bugging me" option might make me more inclined to use the service. I'm sure they'll still gather usage info when I'm on their site and of course make money from ad revenues. Just stop fucking bothering me.
Just like Linux on the desktop! They should just both die already since no one uses them.
I thought we had all agreed we're not doing this Google Plus thing.
This isn't like a cardiologist attempting to resuscitate his patient after his heart stops on the operating table. This is like a cardiologist attempting to resuscitate his patient three days after his heart stops, as they're lowering the casket into the ground.
It also means that some people (like myself) who would otherwise rate an Android app (I was sorely tempted to rate both The Room and The Room 2 as 5 stars) will turn away rather than dealing with Google Plus.
Some days I feel like the only fan of Google+.
or comment on YT
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
You do not want to comment on youtube and you do not want to read the comments there. It's the facebook type of people, who comment there.