Google+ Redesigned (blogspot.com) 91
An anonymous reader writes: Google has announced that its Google+ social network has received a major overhaul, which is rolling out today to users who opt in. The company says the new design focuses on the "Communities" and "Collections" sections of Google+, since those were the ones most well received by users. "[Product Director Luke] Wroblewski, known for his responsive and progressive design work, tells me that the key to this rollout is the consistent, mobile first experience that hasn't historically been a hallmark of G+." The article describes the new experience thus: "As you click through the new Google+ there is a lighter feel to it for sure. It's a product with more purpose, as before it felt like there was a million things flying at you. Notifications, +1's, share buttons. You were pretty much sharing things into a pit and hoping that Google would do fun things with them."
Google Plus (Score:5, Funny)
A social fuss
While Google ||||*
Is trimming-ripe
Burma Shave
*pronounce "pipe"
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*rimming tripe
Competitors (Score:1)
Let us all know when they follow Tsu's business model.
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She prepared to enter The Scary Door.
Just don't force me... (Score:5, Insightful)
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to subscribe to Google+ to rate Android apps. That's really annoying
That way they get some users .. forcibly . It gives this unwanted failure of a service a budget to stay alive . Why? I don't know.
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It also means that some people (like myself) who would otherwise rate an Android app (I was sorely tempted to rate both The Room and The Room 2 as 5 stars) will turn away rather than dealing with Google Plus.
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or comment on YT
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You do not want to comment on youtube and you do not want to read the comments there. It's the facebook type of people, who comment there.
A million things (Score:1)
It's a product with more purpose, as before it felt like there was a million things flying at you.
Every time I accidentally went there, it was a proverbial ghost town. A million things flying at me is not one of the issues I had with it.
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Yeah, but now there will be twice as many active users!
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On desktop?
Just give me $100,000,000 now. (Score:1)
It'll cost you less than the amount you'll waste on G+ before shuttering it entirely.
Google execs, reply to this e-mail to arrange payment. Finder's payment of 25% for anyone who can get one responding.
Regards.
Clicked the link, saw the comments... (Score:3)
suprised (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:suprised (Score:4, Interesting)
A lot hobbyists like Google+ of which quite a few them have no desire to be on Facebook. I find the communities to be informative and have a signal to noise ratio. Specifically, I like the Board Games, Savage Worlds, and Cast Iron Cooking communities.
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I use Google+, but I don't use any other Google applications (other than Android). No gmail, no gphoto/picasa/whatever, no hangouts, no youtube (I stay logged out so it can't track me, I don't read/write comments there).
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Why do you want it to die? I love it. It's the only social media I use. Is it fair turnabout if I say I hope that Facebook dies?
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This does not appear to be true. I've got a G+ account (I've never used it - I once was high and wanted to make a comment on YouTube because someone was wrong on the internet) and my real name is sure as hell not attached to that account, in any way, shape, or form.
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FaceBook has a real name requirement too.
Which they don't enforce unless someone reports the account.
Google requires proof from the GET GO, making it a NO GO.
This might have been the case before. But now getting a G+ account appears to be as easy as thinking of a pseudonym more creative than John Doe. One thing I discovered is that I can actually change the name I used to create my gMail account into something else. So if I signed up as Iman Idiot, I can create a G+ account as Ima Troll.
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Re:suprised (Score:5, Interesting)
Yeah, I use it a lot. I find it has a better signal-to-noise ratio than things like facebook.
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Yeah, I use it a lot. I find it has a better signal-to-noise ratio than things like facebook. +1 Insightful this post if you agree!
FTFY ;)
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Liked!
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Google+ is still alive?
They've "redesigned" it to help it be successful - it now just links straight to Facebook.
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To paraphrase someone's signature (I forget who);
"They said they improved G+. Nope. I looked, it's still there."
Actually, to be honest, I do have one account that I've used to make a YouTube comment. I don't know much else beyond that. I can't really say if it's good or bad. Slashdot and other forums is about as much "social media" as I get.
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Don't you still need it to comment on youtube, rate Android apps, and pretty much any garbage they could think of to try to tie your real name to stuff?
Communities? (Score:3)
I went and took a look at the Game of Thrones community, seeing as that's apparently an example they wanted to highlight about how great this aspect of G+ is. It consists almost entirely of image macros. That is not what the word 'community' implies to me.
I don't see how G+ can possibly ever get good at communities whilst it revolves around Facebook-sized pieces of text with giant images attached, and especially not whilst it insists on clipping posts and comments to just a couple of lines. When I'm on the internet I want to see WORDS and not endless idiotic memes posted over and over. I wish to be entertained and informed. G+ has no chance of doing either unless it redesigns a heck of a lot more than the stylesheets.
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So don't join that community then, if it doesn't suit your tastes.
You're extrapolating on your dislike of a single example to everything. Everyone is terrible at stats and they're not going to get better while they're all using a single anecdote to support their point!
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It's not a social network.
http://thenextweb.com/socialme... [thenextweb.com]
Makes sense (Score:3)
G+ has always had little of the Facebook-style indiscriminate "let the world see everything" of most social media, users have focused more on specific groups or communities with the conversations going on within that group and not in public view. The changes seem to make sense in focusing in on that rather than trying to be another Facebook or Twitter or SnapChat. It makes the pundits feel left out because they're outside those groups and not seeing the interactions, but that's easy enough to solve if they want to. If they don't... Not My Problem, Man.
G+ (Score:2)
Biggest improvement yet to come... (Score:5, Insightful)
They're obviously keeping the biggest improvement for later, since they have yet to announce that they're completely removing the G+ tentacles from all of their other services. But I'm really looking forward to that announcement and am sure they won't screw me over in the meantime! :D
...like when they stopped allowing YouTube comments if you weren't signed up for G+, preventing me from talking to my viewers.
...like when they finally forced me sign up for G+ since I couldn't otherwise manage a charity's YouTube account.
...like when they refused to permit the use of pseudonyms for several months there, even though many of us have globally unique names.
...like when they automatically created G+ pages auto-populated with their details for everyone signing up for any of their other services.
...like when they opted me in automatically to have my G+ images used for their marketing purposes.
...like when they enabled abusive exes to find the former targets of their abuse when they auto-friended contacts in Buzz.
But hey, this time will be different. They're redesigning it so that it works better on the devices we use 24/7 and entrust with our most private information, which is totally cool, since they've admitted they made some mistakes and have said they're sorry.
I think they mean it this time. Everything will be better.
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Yeah, last I heard, the number for where their money was coming from was roughly 92% from advertising, with the other 8% being devices and services. I'm sure that the data they can gather ties in with some of the advertising, since it allows them to target the ads better and thus command a better price for them, but suggesting that it makes up the bulk of their revenue strikes me as being patently ridiculous, though I have no way to disprove the claim directly.
Mind you, I'm the OP in this chain who clearly
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Pay attention.
They have announced that, months ago.
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Link? I recall something from a few months ago about decoupling G+, but it was not the complete decoupling I was discussing here. I also looked back through /. to August and didn't see anything relevant, so it must have been further back. But, I'm always open to being corrected and being provided with relevant information.
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It was announced but I've seen no evidence of it yet. I still can't so much as thumbs up a youtube video without being forced to sign up for google+.
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> They have announced that, months ago.
Cool, so I'll expect it with fusion power, flying cars, and hoverboards.
This means EITHER that they shit the bed so hard when they did this that they can't back it out without months of effort, or that it's all part of yet another corporate schedule, unaffected by technical timing. Each is lame for its own reasons.
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So, G+ is slowly becoming what Orkut was..
How was Orkut? (I remember it was popular among some segments)
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So, G+ is slowly becoming what Orkut was..
How was Orkut? (I remember it was popular among some segments)
Orkut was great! I got an invite, logged in and forgot about it for years until Google announced that they were killing it. Google+ on the other hand annoys the crap out of me. Lets hope that eventually Google will get back to their Orkut roots.
So... (Score:5, Funny)
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Then the slowest loading mailing list on the net will have the company of the slowest loading BBS.
Seriously, G+ needs to heed their own page speed advise.
Don't change it, Googl! (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah right (Score:2)
Nope, still don't care.
Facebook: get a clue! your "groups" are important (Score:2)
I miss simple (Score:1)
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My problem with Google+ (Score:2)
Not Popular = Bad (Score:2)
"You've never quit on anything--like smoking!" (Score:2)
I thought we had all agreed we're not doing this Google Plus thing.
This isn't like a cardiologist attempting to resuscitate his patient after his heart stops on the operating table. This is like a cardiologist attempting to resuscitate his patient three days after his heart stops, as they're lowering the casket into the ground.
I was saying boo-urns (Score:2)