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Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by sp332 »

nek4life wrote: post #69
felideon wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doh. And now I have a whole bunch of people showing up in my chat client. Is there a way to disable that? I see the options for 'Who can start a Messenger conversation with you?' but they are somewhat limited and that's not the option I'm quite looking for.

The setting is unfortunately hidden. You need to click on the little arrow that's next to the chat login next to stream to find it. If you're not signed into chat first do so then click the little arrow again. From there you can add and remove circles from your chat.

Thank you for finding that! If you go to the chat settings on the Gmail page (where I usually use chat), this option doesn't exist.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by bad_user »

chaosmachine wrote: post #60
antimatter15 wrote: post #48

I'm the maintainer of the Google+ Hacker News Circle (Well, the script/cron job that makes a circle from hngp.axxim.net). I increased the frequency to every five minutes to keep up with the new growth. It's great that you're finding a use for it, but it's still irritating that the implementation of shared circles doesn't work well since you can only share a snapshot that users have to manually re-add in order to upda…

It looks like there may be a problem: "You've reached the daily limit for adding to your circles. You can add more tomorrow." This happened when I tried to add any of the circles with 1000+ people. The one with 990 or so worked.

It also happens to me.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by [deleted] »

nek4life wrote: post #69
felideon wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doh. And now I have a whole bunch of people showing up in my chat client. Is there a way to disable that? I see the options for 'Who can start a Messenger conversation with you?' but they are somewhat limited and that's not the option I'm quite looking for.

The setting is unfortunately hidden. You need to click on the little arrow that's next to the chat login next to stream to find it. If you're not signed into chat first do so then click the little arrow again. From there you can add and remove circles from your chat.

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Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by mcnairz »

bad_user wrote: post #72
chaosmachine wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like there may be a problem: "You've reached the daily limit for adding to your circles. You can add more tomorrow." This happened when I tried to add any of the circles with 1000+ people. The one with 990 or so worked.

It also happens to me.

I actually just got it to work. If you click on the "Add Circle" link when the circle had <1000 members it will work. Then you can update tomorrow to get the full list.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by stephank »

pessimist wrote: post #56

So what happens when spammers start adding themselves to the Hacker News circle?

I wonder why the HN account name field is optional, for getting in the shared circle.

Currently, it looks like anyone can add themselves just by having an email and G+ account. Someone already mentioned OAuth, and it'd be great if proper auth against both G+ and HN was required to be added to the circle.

On the other hand, it's also not that hard to selectively toss someone out of your copy of the circle, even right from the stream page.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by joshuahedlund »

In general people seem to be finding a lot of value with these new "random" connections of people who share their interests in tech things or just "interesting" things. It strikes me that all of these people existed before, but none of us knew we "wanted" to be connected to them, we just happened to be at the right place and the right time. I can't wait for the first social network to help us connect to interesting people we don't know without us having to take arbitrary external steps. Google circles, Twitter suggestions for who to follow... these are baby steps to a future with great potential.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by estel »

sunchild wrote: post #36

I can't find this feature. I guess it's because I'm logged into a G+ account via Google Apps for Enterprise? I find Google's rollouts for Google Apps customers a huge source of confusion. You'd think they'd get that under control by now. Anyway, looks like a killer feature that will slowly become indispensable.

It's not yet rolled out to all users, regardless of whether they're Apps customers.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by Feanim »

stephank wrote: post #76
pessimist wrote: post #56

So what happens when spammers start adding themselves to the Hacker News circle?

I wonder why the HN account name field is optional, for getting in the shared circle. Currently, it looks like anyone can add themselves just by having an email and G+ account. Someone already mentioned OAuth, and it'd be great if proper auth against both G+ and HN was required to be added to the circle. On the other hand, it's also not that hard to selectively toss someone out of your copy of the circle, even right…

HN doesn't provide oauth api (or any api for that matter)
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