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The Official Android Beta Community Moves From Google+ To Reddit (androidpolice.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the another-nail-goes-into-the-coffin dept.

With Google+ being shutdown in just a few weeks, the official Android Beta community announced that it will be leaving the dying social media site in exchange for Reddit. The group on Google+ was home to over 163,000 members. Android Police reports: The community's new home will be r/android_beta. In an official announcement, the Android Beta team says they'll keep a close eye on the subreddit for feedback and will use it for announcements and updates. There's nothing there just yet, but when the Android Q beta hits, we're sure things will get much busier. For now, just make sure you subscribe and keep in mind that you have a second address where you can send all your Q beta complaints -- the first is obviously our tips inbox.

33 comments

  1. Reddit to soon be acquired by Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    watch it come!

    1. Re: Reddit to soon be acquired by Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      HDMI to USB adapters for my AMD motherboard?

    2. Re:Reddit to soon be acquired by Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good they can destroy it like they did Android.

    3. Re: Reddit to soon be acquired by Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is terrifying. But at least they'd be able to build a more scalable and fault-taulerant system.

    4. Re: Reddit to soon be acquired by Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOL @ "taulerant". You should have stayed in school (retard translation: u shud of staid in skool).

    5. Re:Reddit to soon be acquired by Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm just glad that Google+ is finally being killed. That massive pile of shit should have never seen the light of day.

  2. Reddit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That shit hole?

    Well, it could be worse. What if they had gone to Fecesbook.

  3. lol what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    dont use reddit after i told a joke about space aliens and they banned me from a reddit...
    its a shit awful place and tells you how far down google is going , time to get back at making browsers and stuff that is not from goooooooo.girl

    1. Re: lol what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Reddit? Where they post memes and lyrics like you do not simply walk into a cathedral or I go to parties sometimes until four?

  4. 6000 subscribers by mapkinase · · Score: 0

    from 160k

    lol. Do not mix hobbies (minute social network platform and android)

    Sodding imbeciles

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  5. Re:Android? Who cares anyway! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Out of meds again Chris? I almost like you better when you post your apk/nazi tourette syndrome stuff although...

  6. Seems appropriate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A beta community moving to Reddit.

  7. Reddit by fluffernutter · · Score: 4, Funny

    When is Reddit going to complete their web design?

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    1. Re:Reddit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As soon as /. Beta is released.

      old.reddit.com forever!

    2. Re: Reddit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why does it matter? Literally nobody ever used google plus or android forums or Reddit. So who cares?

    3. Re:Reddit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      > When is Reddit going to complete their web design?

      They did, unfortunately it is hidden at https://old.reddit.com/

    4. Re:Reddit by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      The same time Slashdot completes theirs. Oh wait it was called Beta and so terrible that people made their own slashcode based clone sites.

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    5. Re:Reddit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      old.reddit.com is deprecated.

      Is going away, matter of when not if.

    6. Re:Reddit by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      When is Reddit going to complete their web design?

      This might seem like nothing more than a dig at Reddit, but it's a great question in light of the fact that Google+ finally got their web design right, just in time to cancel the service. They got rid of most of the unnecessary whitespace, and their translation feature was second-to-none. Any other social network would have to pay to integrate google translate, so no other social network but Facebook has adequate translation functions, and you have to otherwise get that functionality from your browser. G+ was far and away the easiest place to have an international, multilingual conversation in text.

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    7. Re:Reddit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They'll lose 75% of their users the day that happens, and they know it.

  8. Or their search engine. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Or post filter/ranking.

    I'm told it's build on a massive NoSQL graph of semantic triples that are elegant and wonderful in CS papers, but horribly slow and usually catastropically half-understood and mis-implemented in practice.

    Then again, Reddit is a totalitarian shithole of circle-jerk bandwagons to and from the dogpiles.

  9. Betas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    All you android betas belong on a shit hole website like reddit.

    Us iPhone alphas are far superior to you.

  10. just what we need on reddit by iggymanz · · Score: 1

    more goodie-goodie's afraid to address real issues, who raise smokescreens of political correctness and groupthink instead of having critical thinking skills.

    reddit is circling the drain

    1. Re:just what we need on reddit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      People like you don't get it.

      You're more concerned with being "Factually Correct" Than "Morally Right"

      Reddit gets it. /gold karma star pls

    2. Re:just what we need on reddit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Long time redditor here. It is indeed circling the drain. If the right platform comes along half of the community will disappear in a flash just like what happened with digg. The anti-Trump liberal fanaticism has made everything there toxic and it's only getting worse.

  11. beta community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    bunch of cucks

    1. Re:beta community by tepples · · Score: 1

      To me, a cuck is someone who knows his limits in bed and understands that for less common, more demanding scenes, his partner might need to bring in a specialist surrogate. Is there really anything wrong with that?

  12. Just what you need on Reddit, more Betas ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As if the entire Mod Crew, Owner, and Coding Web Devs aren't already enough beta for you ...

  13. Misdirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Out of the frying pan into the fire. reddit is a cesspool.