Maybe because of Google+, Facebook as 1 or 2% less users and Google thinks that's good enough a reason to keep it alive.
Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
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Re: Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
#22Good question because google has killed so many other projects people do rely on (eg: google reader!)
That was over four years ago. It's time to move on with your life. You'll meet other feeds and timelines...
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
#23When I visited a Google office a few years ago, I noticed that they are heavily dogfooding Google +
Anythins that other bigCorps would use Exchange for, they use G+
This is stuff like looking up employees, across teams and entire organization, etc.
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Many people, my wife included, use it regularly. That's all I needed to hear. Google+ is the most legit social networking site now.
If you haven't heard about this person's wife using Google+ it's a little bit of anecdotical evidence that it's doing its job of supporting communities rather than generically connecting people (like Facebook). The user interface remains outstandingly bad, but I've never seen clickbait links or scammers on Google+.
I've seen plenty of spammers, though. People who tag you in things that have nothing to do with you to only drop dodgy links.
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
#25I always thought they should morph/change/add circles as a method to do authentication, authorization and enterprise group permissions.
Imagine an Enterprise IT worker creating a Resource Circle called "Salesforce" or "DropBox" and a user group called Marketing.
I would want it to work for inside private resources as well as public resources. Same thing with user groups. Groups of employees, contractors and outsiders.
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
#26When I visited a Google office a few years ago, I noticed that they are heavily dogfooding Google + Anythins that other bigCorps would use Exchange for, they use G+ This is stuff like looking up employees, across teams and entire organization, etc.
Few years is eons in this field.
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
#27Good question because google has killed so many other projects people do rely on (eg: google reader!)
Yeah, but this one G+ is useless so they will not kill it.
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
#28Good question because google has killed so many other projects people do rely on (eg: google reader!)
That was over four years ago. It's time to move on with your life. You'll meet other feeds and timelines...
It's still a sore spot. It was like a knife in the ribs. A really long knife. Serrated. And floppy. Spinning, too. Laced with Carolina Reaper sauce.
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
#29Good question because google has killed so many other projects people do rely on (eg: google reader!)
All those who relied on Google for things like Reader are much better off running their own news aggregator (the Nextcloud "News" [1] app being a good example of such). Especially given the latest spate of censorship by the likes of Youtube (-> Google), Facebook, Twitter and others I'd say it is irresponsible to put this task into the hands of an entity like the aforementioned. Irresponsible both because there is no way of knowing what they decided to filter out of the news stream and because it makes it even easier to profile their users by tracking what you read, for how long you read it, etc.
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was over four years ago. It's time to move on with your life. You'll meet other feeds and timelines...
It's still a sore spot. It was like a knife in the ribs. A really long knife. Serrated. And floppy. Spinning, too. Laced with Carolina Reaper sauce.
With the death of Google Reader, I completely stopped reading feeds. It killed a part of the internet for me.