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Here's a question: What won't you miss about Google Plus?

Here's a question: What won't you miss about Google Plus?

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  1. I'm asking, by the way, because since we have to find a new home anyway...we might as well try to get some improvements out of it!

    I for one would like to see the ability to insert emojis into posts and comments via the desktop interface. It's weird that I can insert them easily on my phone, but not with my PC!

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  2. Peter Maranci I think Chrome has the ability to insert emoji via context (right click) menu.

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  3. Halfey Halphstein Thanks, but my desktop is running Windows XP. Chrome has been broken and discontinued for that OS for a long time now!

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  4. I will not miss the glitch that, **without fail,* messes up my formatting after editing whenever two formats are used at once. **To demonstrate, I have done it here.** I apologize in advance for the wonkiness (though I was kind and didn't use it as much as I could've).*

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  5. SPamporn, pornspam, spam, and porn.

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  6. It's weird, but I don't remember ever seeing porn here on G+.

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  7. I guess I'm not the only one irritated by porn posts. The other one that bugs the crap out of me is Asian companies posting product spam in science and research forums. No, your latest amplified speaker product is NOT a scientific breakthrough.

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  8. Buffering, sometimes takes hours for a page to load, even just to read a comment on a post and pornspam, spam and porn.

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  9. GIFs taking five minutes to start animating.

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  10. Peter Maranci Interesting. It's incessant in tech, science, and music circles. And, any post that trends is immediately attacked by porn spam. I follow a couple of people whose posts often trend and it's like clockwork. As soon as it trends, boom, here comes the porn.

    I admit that the porn is usually just a teaser. The porn poster is usually pushing Amazon Cloud Computing services. The reasoning behind all that continues to escape me.

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  11. Phillip Landmeier Sometimes if you click on it, at the top of the page it takes you to, there's a close up video of penetration. I'm not on here to see that. There are hundreds of other places on the net to post it.

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  12. Melissa Barrett Exactly. That's not why I'm here. It seems that the people doing it are idiots. Once you've scoped out the pattern, you never click on it again. I either ignore it or report it.

    Although, I became exhausted from reporting it and seeing no improvement. Now we know why. Google stopped paying attention to G+ a long time ago.

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  13. Phillip Landmeier I reported some less than an hour ago, it disappeared just long enough for me to exit the post, when I went back roughly a minute later, it had been restored. Not fresh, restored!
    Google have truly given up on us g+ contributors.

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  14. Melissa Barrett Yeah, they may even be trying to shoo us away.

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  15. Another site taken over by explicit- sometimes violent- porn is the "Cats" site. I finally had to remove myself from the circle. Is any technician at the G+ wheel or have they left the sinking ship?

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  16. G+ "mark-up" which works more like a fat sharpie wielded by a toddler than anything else. Why it has never been fixed or improved despite many complaints is a complete mystery.

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  17. Phillip Landmeier No need, they're driving us away, in droves.

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  18. Pornbots, spambots, pornspam, spam comments, catfish and abandoned and/or unmoderated communities.

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  19. I'll not miss the porn bots. The pattern is so obvious, it seems like it should be a simple fix to block.

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  20. "Trending on Google+"... I don't think it has provided relevant content once. Usually some conspiracy garbage or worse.

    Won't miss the porn and sex spam either.

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  21. Phillip Landmeier the saddest part is that they're not even really porn, but click baits xD

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  22. Scott Gomez A designer somewhere probably thought markup is too difficult. Just like nesting comments.

    Fat sharpie wielded by a toddler is perfect comparison :-)

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  23. The pornbots and spamporn are a couple of reasons I hesitated to recommend G+ to others.

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  24. Lol "Trending on Google+". I absolutely have no interest in bustin jieber or gelena somez or the royal wedding.

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  25. What’s Hot is definitely on my list of things I never want my posts to ever appear on again.

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  26. In my account what G+ usually show in What's Hot is countless of inspirational quotes and greetings. Hey if I want to see those I'd go to facebog.

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  27. Melissa Barrett g+ has become a 2G speed app. Very slow as you say.

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  28. Mods on both of the extremes with respect to taking action and the resulting duplicate groups. There is a balance to good modding and miss that balance, chances are the group will have its own mass migration.
    Mods leaving spam up for days is not good but neither is mods agressively deleting posts when one person makes an offensive comment on that post. I think, ideally group modding should be mostly democratic. Sure, the group creator should probably have a bigger vote, but there should be a possibility for community spam deletion and community post redirection IMO. Hope I'm making sense.

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  29. What I will not miss at all is the complete and utter lack of any sane ordering of posts so that you can tell what you've read and what you haven't.

    I also will not miss the unremittingly white pages that sear my eyes so badly in anything dimmer than broad daylight.

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  30. #discovfefe ("What Snot")
    Waiting to see if Google will get out of their own way.
    G+ markup on comments *re-editing** itself* on each- subsequent edit.
    +1 notifications.
    Lack of Markdown.
    Google fanbois (and fangurls).
    Posts/comments disappearing mid-edit.
    Lying about fantastic usage and engagement metrics.

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  31. 18,833-step reporting and blocking actions.
    The five minute wait for my posting categories and Circles to appear (what the fuck is it loading? The encyclopedia Britannica, in clay tablets?)
    Streams resetting to top after returning from reading a post.
    5,872 "someone +1'd your post" notifications.

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  32. Michael Rainey I'm wondering what the hell the porn that is getting caught must be like.

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  33. Edward Morbius Something interesting. I am using android 7.1.1 and loading is extremely slow. I tried my old android 4.4.4 phone. It is a fast g+ there ! It seems G+ has been not been updated for higher android. I am going back to old phone for g+ now !

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  34. Stagnation, non chronological feed, missing posts from feed, old and viewed posts in feed...

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  35. Its inability to search, even being a Google product.

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  36. Noel Torres That's finally become satisfactory.

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  37. Edward Morbius 😂😭😂😭😂😭

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  38. AniGifs would be one thing, but chances are high my new home will have them, too.
    The algorithmic stream order (more specifically, that a refresh can completely change the order of the stream, even the parts I've already seen).
    The bad search.
    Communities (don't hurt me, please ;P).

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  39. False spam reports against your profile.

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  40. Noel Torres I find your lack of faith ... oh, wait, it didn't turn up in my search results.

    You live.

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  41. Anton A Unintelligible emailed notices about false spam reports against your profile.

    (I felt much better when LWN's Jon Corbett responded much as I did, though in more printable language, on receiving same, a few weeks after I had.)

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  42. The lack of content variety that has evolved from interesting discussions to simple circlejerk. That comes with some symptoms:
    - posts to Twitter
    - screenshots from tweets
    - screenshots from FB posts
    - outrage
    - differentiated opinions not tolerated

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  43. Lack of any active development. Complete antipathy towards the user community. Oh and lack of full Markdown support.

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  44. Porn spam, and "updates" to the format and screen style that I kinda hated but tolerated.

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  45. I won’t miss G+ deciding which posts to show me, instead of showing me all of them in chronological order.
    I won’t miss the spam.
    I won’t miss features randomly disappearing or being deprecated.
    I won’t miss the lack of search on inserting photos.

    And above all:
    I won’t miss using a product that has been relegated to the basement of the company’s priorities.

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  46. Que no te notifique. Que aveces no carguen los videos. Y el Spam

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  47. Major complaints:
    • dead zone for links at top of home feed page (where banner scrolls)
    • rocketing to the start of the feed on mouse mis-clicks
    • inactive buttons on 'stale' open feed page
    • marksideways (not markdown, not markup)
    • takedown notices w/o link or context
    • uncaring, inattentive service provider
    • spam

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  48. Murray J Brown I thought i was the only one on pc, lol

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  49. Not having to click a post and open it to see more than a sliver of one comment. Not being able to stop receiving notifications without banishing a post from my sight.

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  50. Edward Morbius Streams resetting to top after returning from reading a post.

    Definitely this. Which elicited expletives from me so often that eventually my spouse could tell when I was reading G+ just by their frequency.

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  51. One thing that pisses me off about Google Plus is that it keeps insisting that I might want to follow my ex-wife. And there seems to be no way to dismiss that.

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  52. Sure, I could complain too. But despite all of the things listed above (especially the damn nuisance porn) I will still miss it dearly. 7.5 Billion humans, yet, what a happy coincidence that I found all of my favorite ones on G+. TNQ

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  53. Neil Carvin weren't there studies that showed that random stock picking generally got better results than trained analysts? Send I read of more than one such over the years.

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  54. pornbots, recommended / +1'ed by your friends posts and broken formatting...

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  55. Oh, and something that also still grinds my gears: having the "Cancel / Save" buttons while editing a post, at the very top of the post, rather than (also) at the bottom. Very counter-intuitive..

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  56. Filip H.F. Slagter Meaning that if you scroll rapidly to the top you risk triggering "pull to refresh" on mobile.

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  57. Edward Morbius On the iOS app if I want to scroll to the top without refreshing, I just tap the top bar and it takes me there. I’ve never accidentally hit a refresh.

    Now, what happens every day when I am scrolling through a long post? If I accidentally drag my finger just slightly off the vertical, I get the next or previous post.

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