G+ didn't die a natural death. It's own warring factions killed it.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/a-former-google-ui-designer-suggests-inept-management-played-a-role-in-the-networks-demise-beyond-facebooks-impact/
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/a-former-google-ui-designer-suggests-inept-management-played-a-role-in-the-networks-demise-beyond-facebooks-impact/
Managers like to push more work to hard work people because in a short-term hard work people solve their bad management skills ... then one day the "rock star" blows up and ask for resignation ..
ReplyDeleteFiled under absolutely shocked in the most sarcastic way possible
ReplyDeleteYes, yes. I have been there, too.
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decentralised system are often hard to understanding
ReplyDeleteI was there, at Google, though not part of the Google+/Social organization. A good many Googlers got the fuck out of the way of Social, and tried to not touch it with a ten-foot pole. It was an organizational death-trap. Vic Gundotra was basically a Tyrant, and an incompetent one (at least one can expect one's tyrants to occasionally make a good decision). The department ignored hundreds of Google engineers' critiques, about the very issues that ended up being public scandals.
ReplyDeleteIt was a disaster. It's amazing it ended up as good as it did, despite the nonsense. It could have been so much worse.
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Google+ gods are saying this post is damaging the atmosphere and causing global warming and, therefore, must be removed. Apparently, those reading it and commenting on it are being bad children. This one of the reasons I no longer care that Google+ dies. Its overseers are petty children.
ReplyDeleteJohn Lewis Feel free, oh petty god of the dying empire. I'm sure there's a very important principal at stake here. And enjoy the much deserved G+ death when it comes.
ReplyDeleteJim Philips Just move this post to your own stream. It's an important topic but it is a distraction to this community. Simply turn off comments and back link.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I'm being unreasonable and seriously, I'm giving you way more latitude than I should. Start your own community if you think this is so easy.
John Lewis I don't see how this is against the community's rules on this section (discussion and grieving) and it about the technicalities of the companies managerial failures. No, opening another 'stream' isn't an option. Quite a few people, more than I expected, have already deleted their G+ accounts and moved on, or simply left, most activity on G+ died a year or two ago, and the only major activity is on large already existing communities or under famous profiles. I don't feel that trying to push this discussion out is a help, and it further segments a community that is already broken by Google's decisions and is trying to piece itself back together on alternative platforms. It isn't easy to start a new community at this point, and I don't think that was Jim's point at all. The only reason mass migration got the userbase it did is because of the situation of the articles coming out about G+'s closure. I find it hard to believe any other community will breach 1k at this point than ones related to the topic at hand. Simply deleting discussion fairly near the end of this site's life further makes archival harder, as well, for the few that may be trying.
ReplyDeleteVoid of Space and Time I'm not debating this in this thread. PM me.
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John Lewis I don't know a lot of the advanced formatting tricks on this website despite my time here. What would you recommend for PMing? A private post?
ReplyDeleteVoid of Space and Time Go to your own stream. Create a new comment. In the comment where it says "public", click "public". Click the search. Type in John Lewis. Enter. You are now sending a post directly to me and me alone (so long as you didn't accidentally including someone else.)
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