Personally I cannot enough stress the importance of a good app to go with any viable alternative.
I encourage anyone that suggest alternatives to Google+ to include information about its app (or even lack there of if they have none).
I encourage anyone that suggest alternatives to Google+ to include information about its app (or even lack there of if they have none).
Thanks. I could care less about apps (I prefer web-friendly stuff), except for console-type support. But I am well aware this is a minority view ;-)
ReplyDeletePeople have been praising the MeWe app.
ReplyDeleteApps are critical. Access is more important than anything except filters.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius personally I doubt I have used Google+ from the web more than a handful of times. The experience wasn’t exactly encouraging. Let’s agree we are looking for an alternative with both a good web interface and a good app. A useful API wouldn’t hurt either, but it must not be an attack vector for spam.
ReplyDeleteConsole support? TCL and K2 were great prompt based discussion platforms back in the days, doing proper threading and allowing for fast reading. But selling that idea in 2019 will be difficult. Still, if the API allows it, it would of course be possible to add a console based user interface.
Per Siden I use the Web interface on Mobile (passable) and Desktop (extensive CSS mods, though with some annoying glitches as I enter this through Notifications....)
ReplyDeleteI know that the last site redesign annoyed a lot of people. I actually fairly much liked and approved of it. It fixed a lot of cruft under the hood, stuff that users generally don't see.
(The CSS is still a goddamned hairball, but ...)
Definitely, app support is a must and the ability to post photos (not links).
ReplyDeletegawd i must be getting old, desktop web is by far the main access for me. Maybe if i shell out for one of those huge phones i could tolerate the mobile experience, but reluctantly at best.
ReplyDeleteI prefer web based over app, especially the older Google Plus web platform with its individual URLs for almost everything and its graduated profile pages. I loved how I could choose to provide more information on the earlier profile page to those with whom I had a closer association than how much I provided to the general public.
ReplyDeleteYes, I strongly agree with the basic point of a quality interface, but think it needs to be "quality interfaceS". Any replacement needs to have a mode where at least some of the users can use a proper keyboard. It encourages long form writing rather than Twitter-like short posts.
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