Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+

Re:Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+ by dimbirol on Sunday August 02, 2015 @02:25PM (#9991731)

There's no Google+ landing page.

If you want to participate and create a g+-account you'll automatically sign up for google search, gmail, google drive, youtube, google maps, play store, google maps with no option to opt out.

Now who thought this was a good idea?

But even if someone wanted all that, if you signed up for your business to have a youtube channel and a g+ page, you don't get your custom vanity URLs with the chosen account-name. That's remarkably bad UX.

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Re:Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+ by dredmorbius on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:39PM (#10001146)

I pointed that out to Vic and Shindig YEARS ago. Drives me fucking nuts still.

These days I blackhole services that do this. Pinterest most recently.

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Re:Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+ by dredmorbius on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @06:15PM (#10006610)

"Shimrit". Not "Shindig".

Fucking autocorrect.

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