Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers • Hacker News Board

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by urda » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:33 PM UTC

_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #10

What exactly does "sunsetting consumer Google+" mean? The blog post wasn't particularly enlightening. Are they shutting down Google+ as a social network?

What exactly does "sunsetting consumer Google+" mean? The blog post wasn't particularly enlightening. Are they shutting down Google+ as a social network?

FTA: Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers. seems pretty obvious that's the case.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by jrrrr » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

G+ didn't even get its own sunset announcement post; it was mentioned in passing from a post about _something else_.

Poor G+.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by Chunkyated » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

oh no. My family have used G+ to share stuff. I don't want to have my mother-in-law on facebook, what else can we use? I really like the idea of circles, some stuff I would share only with my close family, other stuff would be shared with wider family and friends, etc.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by kirykl » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

Do we get the + operator back in search ?

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by azhenley » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

I recently started getting friend requests on Youtube (I didn't know it had such a feature!).

Does this mean they are just shifting the social network features over to other products?

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by glenrivard » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

karpodiem wrote: post #7

What a poorly managed company.

Poorly managed? They have now grown over 20% the last ten quarters and now over 26% the last two. Since the beginning never declined for a quarter YoY. Even though the great recession.

That is pretty hard to do.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by mc32 » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:35 PM UTC

_uhtu wrote: post #19

_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #10

What exactly does "sunsetting consumer Google+" mean? The blog post wasn't particularly enlightening. Are they shutting down Google+ as a social network?

From the article: "Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers." They will keep it active as an internal network, but regular old joes won't be able to use Google+ anymore.

What about enterprise customers, does that remain or get sunset?

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:35 PM UTC

_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #10

What exactly does "sunsetting consumer Google+" mean? The blog post wasn't particularly enlightening. Are they shutting down Google+ as a social network?

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Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by TimothyBJacobs » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:36 PM UTC

azhenley wrote: post #25

I recently started getting friend requests on Youtube (I didn't know it had such a feature!). Does this mean they are just shifting the social network features over to other products?

YouTube has had friend requests and private messaging for a long time. At least 2008, maybe earlier.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

_uhtu wrote: post #6

Google+ had terrible marketing and release, but it had some decent ideas that I wish other networks had carried over. The idea of "circles", where you had a circle for "acquaintances" "friends", "family" would be great on, say, Facebook, as it would allow me to filter down my feed to just the people I really care about but still have a connection to more distance acquaintances. Currently on Facebook the news feed is…

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