Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers • Hacker News Board

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by Operyl » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:38 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?

They are shutting down the consumer version, which is the public edition. They are going to continue to develop and market Google+ for Businesses (like Facebook for Work).

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by Operyl » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:39 PM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #27

_uhtu wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

They're going to continue to develop is, according to the post.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by joering2 » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:40 PM UTC

Serious question: you build your own social network based on what people really want it too work like, and won’t track them or allow advertising, instead you invite just a handful of “promoters” every year to show same ad to everyone (to pay your bills) and build in tools that will accept facebook export format - how do you crank-start such network to beat an obvious chicken-and-egg problem?

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by ben174 » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:40 PM UTC

jrrrr wrote: post #22

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

I think that was by design. Trying to sweep it under the covers to avoid outrage. I share that article with friends and they're likely to read the first half of the headline and not bother reading it.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by jiveturkey » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:41 PM UTC

kirykl wrote: post #24

Do we get the + operator back in search ?

came here to say just that. the gall of google, claiming at the release of g+, that '+' was never an official qualifier and quotes were always the standard.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by 0xmohit » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:41 PM UTC

> Google is shutting down its long-neglected Facebook competitor Google+ following the disclosure of a vulnerability that could have resulted in third-party developers accessing private data from around 500,000 users, the company announced Monday.

Source: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/google-plus-shut-down-...

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by dragonwriter » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:42 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.

> They will keep it active as an internal network

Probably, but the key point made in the article is that it will continue as an enterprise product, not just an internal one (though presumably Google is one of the enterprises that will continue using it.)

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by Ajedi32 » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:43 PM UTC

I wonder if Project Strobe is also behind Google's recent effort to limit the permissions of Chrome extensions. So far I'm really liking the direction they're taking with this; making permissions optional and more fine-grained.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by CPLX » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:43 PM UTC

The use of the word "sunset" as a verb in posts like this is fucking infuriating. Yes, software types know what it means, but this is a consumer product with tens of millions of users, who have no familiarity with that term.

It's a weasel word. The way to say this is in plain English. We're closing, shutting down, turning off, discontinuing, or something.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by pc86 » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 5:43 PM UTC

ben174 wrote: post #34

jrrrr wrote: post #22

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

I think that was by design. Trying to sweep it under the covers to avoid outrage. I share that article with friends and they're likely to read the first half of the headline and not bother reading it.

Serious question, is anybody going to be outraged by sunsetting G+?