The volume and quality of traffic is declining. It's a sad thing - G+ attracted some of the brightest people. One of my earliest and best Plussers was the late Dirk Talamasca a brilliant person whose premature death cause me more grief than the similarly early deaths of some of my blood relatives. I haven't found - and do not expect to - another social media platform that boasts the same high level of sense and sensibility as G+.
"I see things". (All from a desktop perspective here). The upper right bell notification thingy has been weird for a few months now, sometimes not working sometimes yes, sometimes it catches messages sent via mobile app. But the "notifications" panel catches everything - and still does, able to sort by read and unread, and without that now-annoying "going out of business" widget alert. I was seeing an awful lot of automated-feed posts but they've ceased, like BBC, which was practically overwhelming me with posts recently, and attracted tons of robots and hate comments too. No fluff now.
Now the feed is much quieter - perhaps because I didn't belong to a lot of things - mostly I'm just seeing my actual "circles" posts and 2 or 3 remaining communities, like this one. Photo groups all gone (mostly to MeWe, but many returning to groups and albums on Flickr).
Short version. (No trademark infringement intended): Me Too.
And I am seeing my friends who rely on the mobile widget having difficulty now as well, and once that goes for them, talking 14 days from now, they're excluded, in effect, and even those of us remaining for the executions we are only going to get notices via web interface (on Chrome at least) and/or by +1 'ing. (Is that a verb? Will it work?) We're all scavengers soon. Hope everyone's got a cottage and garden somewhere to watch the explosion from a safe distance! We are survivors.
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Yes. It's almost as though G+ is actually becoming the "ghost town" non-users were describing a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteDean Barnett I used to have prolific posters like makeuseof Glenn Hughes and it just occurred to me that I’m not seeing them
ReplyDeleteThe volume and quality of traffic is declining. It's a sad thing - G+ attracted some of the brightest people. One of my earliest and best Plussers was the late Dirk Talamasca a brilliant person whose premature death cause me more grief than the similarly early deaths of some of my blood relatives. I haven't found - and do not expect to - another social media platform that boasts the same high level of sense and sensibility as G+.
ReplyDeleteDean Barnett I agree. That’s why I restarted my site. I Can’t see another social media site having the same quality and feel as this one.
ReplyDeleteYes. G+ is withering away as people move to alternative social media. Time will get divided and more and more will spend it on their future homes.
ReplyDelete"I see things". (All from a desktop perspective here).
ReplyDeleteThe upper right bell notification thingy has been weird for a few months now, sometimes not working sometimes yes, sometimes it catches messages sent via mobile app. But the "notifications" panel catches everything - and still does, able to sort by read and unread, and without that now-annoying "going out of business" widget alert. I was seeing an awful lot of automated-feed posts but they've ceased, like BBC, which was practically overwhelming me with posts recently, and attracted tons of robots and hate comments too. No fluff now.
Now the feed is much quieter - perhaps because I didn't belong to a lot of things - mostly I'm just seeing my actual "circles" posts and 2 or 3 remaining communities, like this one. Photo groups all gone (mostly to MeWe, but many returning to groups and albums on Flickr).
Short version. (No trademark infringement intended): Me Too.
And I am seeing my friends who rely on the mobile widget having difficulty now as well, and once that goes for them, talking 14 days from now, they're excluded, in effect, and even those of us remaining for the executions we are only going to get notices via web interface (on Chrome at least) and/or by +1 'ing. (Is that a verb? Will it work?) We're all scavengers soon. Hope everyone's got a cottage and garden somewhere to watch the explosion from a safe distance! We are survivors.
Yes. It's as though the last few remaining are standing on the bridge of the sinking ship watching the lifeboats cast off.
ReplyDeleteKind of weird but interesting to observe how this will all look near the end.
All this makes a part of me want to chuck all social media. Bitter indeed.
British Bob the automated sharing to G+ broke a while back, and that has to reduce what we can see.
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