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Re:When Yahoo Reigned Supreme by deciplex on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @09:28PM (#11680728)
It didn't help that when the buzz and hype was greatest for Google Plus they... didn't let people join Google Plus without a difficult-to-obtain invite. By the time they cut that out nobody gave a shit anymore.

Turns out Cartman's "you can't come" technique doesn't work so well IRL.

Re:When Yahoo Reigned Supreme by randomThoughts9 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:21PM (#11685145)
It worked for GMail though.
Re:When Yahoo Reigned Supreme by deciplex on Sunday May 15, 2016 @12:54AM (#11699498)
Yeah, it did get some buzz going iirc. Gmail doesn't rely on network effects tho.