Introducing the new Google+ • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by rfrank » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:34 PM UTC

i386 wrote: post #8

I'm not entirely sure what Google+ is anymore. Who is the target audience?

google spiders

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by bronson » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:35 PM UTC

    Charise Strandberg via Google+
    Daniel Brinneman shared this via Google+
    Antonio Valdés via Google+

I see Google+'s commenting is still drowned out by sharing notifications. Google, there's a reason everyone turned off trackbacks ten years ago. It's just noise for anyone reading that page to filter out.

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by strictnein » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:36 PM UTC

Animats wrote: post #13

So they redesigned the web site to look like Windows 8?

So that's why that Google VP of Design hated Windows 10 so much. They had modeled this on the beautiful Windows 8.

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by 542458 » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:36 PM UTC

munchor wrote: post #10

The only times I ever used Google+ was because of the Communities. They're well designed and implemented, and they were always Google+'s strongest selling point. It seems they're taking a more Communities-focused approach, which seems like the right path for them.

Really? I found them confusing and difficult to navigate. The two column layout makes it difficult to keep track of chronological order, and the lack of static or promoted posts means that important info is often lost several pages back. Also, I find the load times really really slow.

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by chintan » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:37 PM UTC

Please fix the Google Groups UI - I'm sure there is more engagement/activity in Groups than in Google+ communities. I always fear when clicking on a google group link in google results.

Add to this - recently some of the results go to a white-labeled community site: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/oSR...

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by tdicola » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:37 PM UTC

rfrank wrote: post #14

jbob2000 wrote: post #4

So... a reddit-killer?

lol. just like google+ v1 was a facebook killer? ;)

Google+ was a Google Reader killer, and I'm still mad about it.

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by mindcrime » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:38 PM UTC

I just logged in and nothing looks any different to me at a first glance. And as much as I want to like G+, I can't get over the absolutely abysmal design with that single narrow column and all that empty space off to the sides. It just grates at my nerves for some reason. And the multi-column view is shit, which is why I turned it off in the first place.

Facebook, OTOH, has a design which is way too "busy". And never mind that both Facebook and G+ are walled-gardens anyway. I need to just convince more of my friends to join up with GNU Social.

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by izzydata » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:40 PM UTC

I'm confused as to why my google+ has almost 200,000 views, but it has zero posts and basically nobody in my circles. Is this counter broken for anyone else?

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by electricblue » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:41 PM UTC

Still not sure who this is for and why they would want to use it. Google is at its best when they are fixing problems in a novel way, not trying to ape everyone else

Re: Introducing the new Google+

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Post by lxe » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9:41 PM UTC

Looks like G+ is still using the old Google logo.