A sigh of relief has been heard across the Internet as behemoth Google has finally relented in it's ever intruding necessity to have a Google+ account from every service and function from signing up for Gmail to posting comments on YouTube.
From Slate to The Verge and everywhere in between there is dancing in the streets as Google finally got the message... no, not today Google, I don't want Plus. Plus will not be going away, it will become it's own property, left to stand on it's own, and unhooked from every Google service under the sun.
(Score: 1) by ThePhilips on Monday August 03 2015, @09:38PM
To cut this story short, I found the G+ interface a total piece of shit in the same sense that I find the Tumblr interface a piece of shit.
And one would have thought that the company with Google's resources and engineering talent could do better.
To me it was the moment when I realized that Goolge finally and irrevocably turned to shit. In all interviews, including from developers, they simply could explain why they have decided to do like that. It was obviously a committee design. And they, usual to committee, failed to reach any compromise, but instead of making some bloated monstrosity, went with a usual to Google the "barebone skeleton" of a service.
To me, the G+ joins the very long list of services which failed (or rather: were underdeveloped, undermaintained and eventually choked to death) because Google simply refuses to connect with the users.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday August 04 2015, @05:33AM
Naw...naw...naw...if they'd gone with a "barebone skeleton" of a service all would be fine. Instead they've gone with the ugliest crap HTML possible.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 1) by ThePhilips on Tuesday August 04 2015, @07:38AM
Ugly I could have oversaw - if the service offered something tad bit more functionality than "twitter on steroids".
Plug-ins for editing the posts and non-plain-text posts would have been a good start. That, of course, before the repeal of the "real name" policy.
The sorting of comments was the most ridiculous part: a comment with no votes often was the "top" comment, eclipsing the ones with dozen upvotes. In a way that is not funny - that's just retarded.
That what have basically killed all my interest in the G+: neither you can't write posts with any interesting content, nor you can sort through the comments.
The "ugly" part didn't even had a chance to play any role.
P.S. And the "ugly" part BTW also something I have expected from Google. They could have easily made the G+ view customizable. But nope, they forced you to live with that narrow shit, utilizing barely 20% of browser's screen real estate. Considering Google's investment in HTML5, I have expected columns and all possible/impossible stuff, including Google Labs and beta plug-ins. But nope - none of that "free will", "choices" or "innovation" silliness.
P.P.S. Which in the end means that there is still no decent social network for the professionals. Beside the venerable phpBB, of course.