What went wrong?
Youtube and Gmail integration, no one wants others knowing how to contact them or what videos they watch
Layout design.
- They botched the initial rollout, and nobody gave a shit after that. When they first released it people actually wanted to sign up but couldn't. Later on the opposite was true, people didn't want to sign up but they were forced into it. Also the interface is shit.
> What went wrong?
Google sucks. I think I am most pissed off about the Glass failure.
>Also the interface is shit.
Par the course for google.
forced sign up with no benefit, constantly uploading everything you do unless you go into each and every obtuse hidden setting to turn it off
>Notice Facebook, Twitter, and others gaining popularity
>Want to compete in the social network info collection trend
>Create platform purely to extract even more user info
>Nothing about it is enjoyable to use
>Nobody uses it
>Force everyone with any Google-related account to now have a G+ account
>User engagement doesn't increase
>Too committed now to let people have separate accounts for entirely different platforms that Google owns
>G+'s stagnant corpse is doomed to linger in virtual purgatory
This, I just think the whole concept of "Google Accounts" is fucking awkward and confusing as hell. Like there is some link between Google Plus, your Youtube "channel/account", your Gmail, Why can't they just be fucking separate? Why is my fucking phone number required for a fucking email address? So if I want another Youtube account I have to create one as well as another Google Plus page which is included automatically, and then my Gmail is supposedly personal, that I use for job interviews and such?
So then if I want to comment on random videos there's going to be a fucking picture of me and my full goddamn name next to my stupid comment because its all linked to one account? Just fucking separate or make things motherfucking optional. Make creating an email or multiple emails simple and stop asking for my personal info and phone number.
Then let me choose if I WANT a google plus account. its just all a web of retarded privacy invading bullshit that's confusing on purpose, all to keep people in the "walled garden" because its so "convenient"...no its not its fucking annoying and no one understands how its all linked.
moot killed it.
dailydot.com
reuters.com
Good riddance. And as of now it's no longer tied to YouTube accounts which means I can delete my G+ profile and change my YouTube user account back to my original handle before Google forced me to use my real name.
They even got the name wrong. It is wiiu levels of bad.
unironically the beta stages were pretty good, but has always they fucked up hard and died slowly
Fucking hilarious. As if Google wants anything to do with the kind of people that moot knows how to attract.
This. They should keep their shit independent of each other.
Did moot have a G+ profile?
Ever talked about what he did there?
What the fuck did you do, moot, omg
It was an inside job.
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Why did you connect them in the first place?
There was absolutely no reason to do that unless you desperately want to make comments under videos.
>Google said that 90% of all G+ sessions lasted shorter than 5 seconds
How do you fuck up this badly
Agree with this guy
>Welcome to your new Google + account.
Close.
When technology when perform normal?
Instead of bitching here; why isn't someone finding alternative email provider, you tube network, voice assistant, search engine that is private by design??
when we dont store our shit on centralized servers
what are you proposing then shitdick you're literally saying privacy words here. we've only got shit like google
snips.ai
snips.ai
snips.ai
literally YOU build the code to it, and everything is PRIVATE
they already exist and non-brainlets already use them
Too little too late and forcing it on users instead of letting people discover then flock to it from facebook.
>alternative email provider
Protonmail/mailbox/posteo etc
>youtube
Invidio.us (front end), Vidlii for shitposting
>voice assistant
Lmao
>search engine
Searx/DDG
I still run a community on the platform just shy of 300k members. The platform died pretty hard about two or so years back. Went from about 10k new users a day to about maybe 1 or 2. Google fucked up a lot of decisions with how to roll it out. Most of all they force people to use it. Force someone to do something and they will not like whatever that thing is.
You didn't have to use your real name, you could have just kept saying no until they gave up. That's what I did and never had to change the name.
>They should keep their shit independent of each other.
kek, we're talking about Google here senpai
I did keep saying no for about a year and then at some point google would not let me continue without using my name. Maybe I missed something. But either way it was bullshit and I didn't want to do it. It felt good deleting my G+
Confusing. I had like 3 accounts for one youtube channel for some reason. Also no one but minecraft youtubers used it
can we acknowledge the naming scheme? many internet services have names that roll off the tongue and just make sense, youtube, facebook, twitter, these names sounded right. google plus doesnt sound right at all, what does the name convey? it sounds more like the name of some sort of premium subscription service rather than a social network name, it also doesnt sound right in general compared to the others.
SJWs
Stupid asnwer: It was bad
Objectie Answer: Too complicated for average nigger
It was shit.
heh I genuinely forgot it ever existed, thanks op
I use cock.li and protonmail
They hired m00t to work on it.
>alternative email provider
yahoo mail
webp. They switched from jpg to webp to save on bandwidth and space, and it killed all the photo sharing that was being done on G+. Nice format, shame no-fucking-body uses it and apps don't support it.
Ahahaha! That is too fucking funny. Any chance moot will come back here now? It's where he belongs, and remember, [spoiler]you're here forever.[/spoiler]
0/10 bait
Bit of a shame, Google+ sucked but it had a very active tabletop roleplaying community, and some nice landscape/photography groups that were better than facebook's. Oh well, not a great loss.
t. google employee
t. yahoo employee
Guys, guys, could we just compromise and agree that you both suck?
I never said google was good
It's basically reddit
social media is cancer. nothing of value lost. facebook next pls