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Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by kin »

vito wrote: post #130
unreal37 wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think G+ needs to clarify whether it's aimed at "only real friends" as Facebook is, or aimed at "mainly people you don't know" a la Twitter. Once they clarify that, people will stop posting vacation photos for strangers to see, or stop posting Lisp programming tips to their personal friends.

Isn't it the whole point of Circles that they don't have to clarify that? You're in complete control of who you send things to from the very beginning, and the only way you can add people is by putting them in the appropriate circle(s).

Yeah, people are sharing wrong. If one person posts Vacation photos, they should post it to their Friends circle, while their Tech posts can be public posts. But, to be honest it's one more thing for people to do and is the reason why there's no fine-tuning of noise.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by jamesbritt »

tomkarlo wrote: post #124
jamesbritt wrote: post #101

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There's an excellent chrome extension that allowed one to check off specific circles to view as a group. Rather than have to view one circle, then the next circle, then the next, I could view multiple circles at the same time. What this really meant was that I could get an "All" view that excluded those circles holding people I'm only sporadically interested in, without having to play with the circle frequency slider…

"What this really meant was that I could get an "All" view that excluded those circles holding people I'm only sporadically interested in, without having to play with the circle frequency slider thing." So you're complaining that you can't get a filtered stream of posts without having to use the feature for filtering your stream? It's not like you have to do it more than once per circle you want to exclude.

So you're complaining that you can't get a filtered stream of posts without having to use the feature for filtering your stream?

No, I'm not.

It's not like you have to do it more than once per circle you want to exclude.

I have, say, a dozen circles. Can you tell me how I can quickly choose to view a stream that consists of all of the content from only a subset of those circles? Then quickly choose a different subset of circles? Or view a stream of all content except those in the PostTooMnayPictures circle?

I know of no way to do any kind of circle grouping/ungrouping, but if it's there I'd love to know about it.

The plus/minus extension allowed this by turning the list of circles into a multi-select checklist. Two seconds to change to any subset of circles to view.

Edit: It looks like the +/- developer is planning on updating his extension to work with the new layout

https://plus.google.com/117134788479394921938/posts

I'm thinking the other layout issues (too much whitespace, useless menu-y cruft) can be fixed with greasemonkey.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by acdha »

haberman wrote: post #84
jaysonelliot wrote: post #46

The first thing I have to do when looking at a demo video like this is mute the music so I can actually look at the usability of the interface without the soundtrack trying to tug at my heartstrings. I find it hard to tell if this is going to be a step in the right direction or not. There are some red flags that go up for me, but it's obviously hard to judge based on descriptions and videos alone. One of the biggest…

Can't you configure what gets delivered as a notification? If you're so popular that people are adding you to circles all the time, can't you just turn those notifications off?

For a few things, yes, but there's no way to disable the Google-wide badge or the iOS push notification badging.

I ended up deleting my Google+ account because that was the only way to avoid this constant badge spam.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by acdha »

caffleine wrote: post #135
mbrubeck wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I can tell, you can customize email and phone notifications, but you can't customize the notifications that appear under the red alert number on Google web pages. (I might be missing something.)

There's a "Who can send you notifications?" section on the settings page which allows you to configure who can send you notifications that trigger the red alert.

This does not actually work for being added to circles.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by bo1024 »

acqq wrote: post #136

They still want to enforce users to use "real" (for their definition of "real") names. As I write this, my profile is "suspended" because I didn't type my real name: "Your profile is currently under review to make sure it is in compliance with the Google+ Names Policy and User Content and Conduct Policy. Reviews are typically completed within a few days." I also had to select "other" for gender, there's no option nam…

Yeah, no matter what they say about redesigns, I have trouble picturing G+ as a service designed to help make my life better. I just see it as a ploy by Google to get my personal data. It will take a lot for them to change that opinion now.
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