Google+: Communities and photos • Hacker News Board

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

#11

Post by melvinmt » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 5:28 PM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #8

mudrast wrote: post #5

Still nothing for Google Apps users.

I'm okay with that personally. The thing that bugs me is that it doesn't support multi-accounts yet. At work we use Google Apps, which I have signed in simultaneously with my personal Google account. I can pop between my personal and company GMails easily. Whenever I click on a G+ link it insists on using my company account, telling me I can't get Google+, etc etc. There's no way to switch over to my personal account…

I have exactly the same problem. My half-baked solution is to use my Google+ account in my secondary browser (e.g. Safari) and use the Google Apps accounts in the other one. It's not perfect and it's frankly the reason why I don't check into G+ that often.

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

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Post by jrockway » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 5:35 PM UTC

tsycho wrote: post #10

potatolicious wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm okay with that personally. The thing that bugs me is that it doesn't support multi-accounts yet. At work we use Google Apps, which I have signed in simultaneously with my personal Google account. I can pop between my personal and company GMails easily. Whenever I click on a G+ link it insists on using my company account, telling me I can't get Google+, etc etc. There's no way to switch over to my personal account…

One temporary/hacky multiple account solution is to use multiple Chrome profiles (I think Firefox also has something similar). This way I have separate work and personal Gmails working smoothly, and using different themes for the profiles also means that I don't mistake the windows and send out something from the wrong email account.

I don't think this is a hacky solution so much as a great solution. Chrome profiles are a very convenient feature because they can add multi-login support to anything, not just Google sites.

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

#13

Post by raldi » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #8

mudrast wrote: post #5

Still nothing for Google Apps users.

I'm okay with that personally. The thing that bugs me is that it doesn't support multi-accounts yet. At work we use Google Apps, which I have signed in simultaneously with my personal Google account. I can pop between my personal and company GMails easily. Whenever I click on a G+ link it insists on using my company account, telling me I can't get Google+, etc etc. There's no way to switch over to my personal account…

Could you elaborate on that a little? I have two Google accounts, both on different Apps domains, and I have no trouble using multilogin support with G+ on either.

To help debug:

1. Does multilogin support work at all for you? In other words, can you open both accounts' GMail in side-by-side tabs in the same browser? (The URL should contain something like "/a/something.com" or "/u/0" in each one.)

2. In the first of these tabs, if you click the +You link in the upper left corner, does it take you to G+?

3. Same as #2, but with the second tab

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

#14

Post by JaggedJax » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 5:55 PM UTC

fourstar wrote: post #4

The problem with this I feel and one of the advantages of Twitter is that if a certain company controls their community page (e.g. Audi USA) and I go to post some sort of customer service complaint, they have the option of removing it. With Twitter, I can just add a hashtag or @message them and it'd be visible globally with search.

You can still make a public post not in the group with +Audi or #Audi and it will function the same way Twitter does.

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

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Post by tiziano88 » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 5:56 PM UTC

fourstar wrote: post #4

The problem with this I feel and one of the advantages of Twitter is that if a certain company controls their community page (e.g. Audi USA) and I go to post some sort of customer service complaint, they have the option of removing it. With Twitter, I can just add a hashtag or @message them and it'd be visible globally with search.

wait, so what prevents you from +mentioning someone or #tagging a post in G+? Communities are completely independent and orthogonal to those already existing features

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

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Post by bad_user » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

fourstar wrote: post #4

The problem with this I feel and one of the advantages of Twitter is that if a certain company controls their community page (e.g. Audi USA) and I go to post some sort of customer service complaint, they have the option of removing it. With Twitter, I can just add a hashtag or @message them and it'd be visible globally with search.

Google+ also has hashtags, e.g... https://plus.google.com/s/%23ThorsDay/posts

And apparently you can search for anything and you'll get a realtime stream: https://plus.google.com/s/Santa%20Claus/posts

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

#17

Post by Ironlink » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 6:00 PM UTC

mudrast wrote: post #5

Still nothing for Google Apps users.

Works fine for my Google Apps domain. Are you sure it isn't disabled in your Apps control panel? http://i.imgur.com/emsHH.png

This setting is at: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/DOMAIN.TLD/CPanelHome#Organi...

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

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Post by shuw » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 6:03 PM UTC

I don't know if Google announced this earlier, but this post just released more granular active (I assume monthly) user numbers for G+ than I've seen:

"More than 500 million people have upgraded, 235 million are active across Google (+1'ing apps in Google Play, hanging out in Gmail, connecting with friends in Search...), and 135 million are active in just the stream."

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

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Post by Ironlink » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 6:19 PM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #8

mudrast wrote: post #5

Still nothing for Google Apps users.

I'm okay with that personally. The thing that bugs me is that it doesn't support multi-accounts yet. At work we use Google Apps, which I have signed in simultaneously with my personal Google account. I can pop between my personal and company GMails easily. Whenever I click on a G+ link it insists on using my company account, telling me I can't get Google+, etc etc. There's no way to switch over to my personal account…

In a browsing session, the Google account you sign in to first will be the default account used by Google.

For Plus, the link for using your second session (as given in the Switch Account menu in the top right) is https://plus.google.com/?authuser=1 . You should also be able to use https://plus.google.com/u/1/ , which is the link used in the top-of-page nav menu on google.com after switching to your second session.

Re: Google+: Communities and photos

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Post by notatoad » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 6:34 PM UTC

mudrast wrote: post #5

Still nothing for Google Apps users.

When you say nothing do you mean nothing special, or do you mean that you can't access G+ at all from google apps? Because on both of my apps accounts, google+ works just fine.