Does anyone else notice themselves leaning to the left? I feel uncomfortable.
Google+ gets a redesign
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
I decided to use a name that looked real, but isn't, and isn't mine. So far, I've yet to be caught by Google. The cost of this? Explaining to friends who don't know my opinion on anonymity on the internet.
They also have numerous number of people doing so. And people kicked for using their real name. Etc. In short it just prove the unenforceability of the policy. I heckled them about that in a conference and when offered to get help to have my account fixed, I declined saying that the only thing they need to fix is the policy itself by retracting it and apologizing.
> I heckled them about that in a conference and when offered to get help to have my account fixed, I declined saying that the only thing they need to fix is the policy itself by retracting it and apologizing.
Brilliant.
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#183I must say this design looks oddly familiar. Can't they just paint it blue and call it GoogBook?
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#184I chuckled when I scrolled up and down this blog post, and paired it with the headline indicating a "simpler" Google.
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#185Wow, huge improvement! Is the cover photo new too? (I haven't checked out G+ in a while.. - copied from FB?!) Looks more "fun" in any case, which is good. (Not saying they have to go completely spastic but this is a good mix)
As far as I know, Path had done the cover photo thing before Facebook.
The cover photo is to social networks as extra blades are to razors. Features are being stockpiled as if these companies were caught up in an arms race. It seems platform won't risk being caught without equivalencies, without questioning the worth of mimicking in the first place.
I'd like to see more confidence shown by social networks. Who's forging ahead when they're all chasing each other's tails?
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I could just set my "Friends" circle to be the default function of the Home button (something I've wanted dating back to my first 5 minutes using the service) I would probably actually use Google+. "Home" being "EVERYTHING" is just a disaster. I want to see what the people I actually personally care about are up to first and foremost, and then I want to browse around to what the rest of the Internet is doing. Inst…
Not just that, but customizing the filtering tabs -- I get very rare G+ posts from my family, but still that tab lingers there, useless, while I'm forced to constantly peruse the drop-down to the right because oh no you can't add more than one custom circle to your tabs . Seriously, wtf.
You can replace that tab by re-ordering your circles. Those tabs are just the first two circles. Yep, it's not all that obvious.
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#187Is it me, or is the large amount of white-space in the new design on wide-screen monitors unnerving?
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#188Is it me, or is the large amount of white-space in the new design on wide-screen monitors unnerving?
I very much like the space. It makes the ui feel more calm and less noisy.
But even more I like this #usesforwhitespace meme that is going on right now:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23usesforwhitespace/posts
Some fun ideas in there.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not just that, but customizing the filtering tabs -- I get very rare G+ posts from my family, but still that tab lingers there, useless, while I'm forced to constantly peruse the drop-down to the right because oh no you can't add more than one custom circle to your tabs . Seriously, wtf.
You can replace that tab by re-ordering your circles. Those tabs are just the first two circles. Yep, it's not all that obvious.
Thanks, nice one! It's a huge design failure anyway: editing circles has nothing to do with looking at the timeline.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
> no tech company stays in the #1 spot for more than a decade If that were a fixed law, then Facebook could still wait for Windows, Photoshop, Skype and Google Search to disappear before they had to worry about themselves. I hope I will remember to revisit this comment in half a decade. :)
Facebook isn't even the #1 spot right now. Google, apple, and microsoft are still much bigger companies than they are. And oh yeah, they make PROFIT. IMHO, facebook is GREATLY overvalued, but only time will tell if it's true. Their investment in price assumes that they will continue to grow and will still have no competition in a 1/2 decade. $120 billion, or $80 billion - depending on who you talk to. Google is makin…
> Facebook isn't even the #1 spot right now
FWIW, I interpreted this as the #1 spot for any given category of software. Facebook are clearly the #1 for social and have been so for a while. That's good enough in the context of this discussion.
It surprises me too, actually, given their absolutely terrible mobile apps. :(