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Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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I downvoted you for using the word "ghey" as some sort of perjorative, but the rest of what you're saying isn't doing much to dissuade me from my assessment. (Edit - the OP has edited to remove the word "ghey" since my comment, it was originally right before the phrase "blog posts" as an adjective.) IBM didn't lose out to an "operating system," if anything, it was Microsoft that made them capable of competing in the…

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Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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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…

I agree that the conversations are difficult. When I click the notification window to see a reply, all I get is that one reply. I find it cumbersome to find the full conversation, to the point where I usually go to that person's page and find the original, eschewing the notifications altogether.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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I see many people hoping for features/changes...

I hope they will add anchor with target to images (and content posts in general, I guess). You can't middle click to open image in background and you can't do anything at all with javascript disabled. I really, really hate that (the former). Especially because they change the cursor on hover which makes you think it's an clickable anchor.

Double middle-click used to work (seriously, what?) but it doesn't for some time now.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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People. It's missing people.

I've got loads of people on my G+. I feel there's more to it, but i think "Jenius" has hit the nail on the head. I think its third-party app integration that's missing.

For me, it's not having a native client for my phone, and not having a good web interface to make up for it. I know Windows Phone doesn't have a large marketshare, but at some point Google+ will have to work with the Metro framework if they want Windows users to notice them in the future.

Of course, this could all be made up for if they had good email notifications, which they don't. I have a lot of people I follow on G+ to make up for the lack of people I know using it. With that, conversations from my real friends get lost. I'd love to have email notifications based on which circle someone is in, and have email notifications for everything my friends post.

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