It, if I recall correctly, applies to the little red circle/bell icon in the upper right corner of Google+ and many other Google properties which alerts you to notifications.
It does not, however, indicate that notifications on the notifications page will stop.
That's one of those "clear as mud" questions/answers per Google. I see different functionality across the bell widget (using Chrome) vs. the left panel notifications, where I'm not getting the widget warnings. Seems mobile-sent notifications are coming into the "bell" while other posts to the left column.
Let an expert be specific (if s/he can) but I am imagining that in a week the mobile app widget and notify (bell) widget on browsers are disappearing or being crippled. Maybe that will leave people with browser access alone for an extra few weeks. Maybe not.
I'm telling friends to act on the assumption of many people being lost to access on 7 March, and functionally the ghost town will be ghostier even for those of us remaining until the bomb drops and the bulldozers come rolling in to bury all our years' content.
They've been careful to say that the widget is the part which will be unavailable, so (if they weren't talking through their hats) notifications themselves should still be available by selecting the "Notifications" tab in G+.
The Notification widget (what used to be called "Mr. Jingles" initially) is going away for all products. The One Google Bar it appears on will remain. Users will have to use a combination of the browser-based notifications and in-product notifications instead of Mr. Jingles.
Diana Studer That would return to how traffic lights worked originally. Yellow/amber was added because having a green light change abruptly to red with no warning while the other direction got a green light at the same moment led to a lot of accidents. There were still a few lights with only red and green around when I was first learning about traffic lights, but they were rare.
John Skeats Correct answer, IMHO... but here it appears Google has only bad choices because one group controls the green and another the yellow lights.
In Cape Town when we are hit by loadshedding ... the traffic lights are off. Four way stop and turning traffic and roadworks! If we are lucky there is a traffic cop on point duty then it all runs fairly smoothly.
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ReplyDeleteIt, if I recall correctly, applies to the little red circle/bell icon in the upper right corner of Google+ and many other Google properties which alerts you to notifications.
ReplyDeleteIt does not, however, indicate that notifications on the notifications page will stop.
So this link should continue to work:
accounts.google.com - Acceso: cuentas de Google
Oh thank god.
ReplyDeleteThat's one of those "clear as mud" questions/answers per Google. I see different functionality across the bell widget (using Chrome) vs. the left panel notifications, where I'm not getting the widget warnings. Seems mobile-sent notifications are coming into the "bell" while other posts to the left column.
ReplyDeleteLet an expert be specific (if s/he can) but I am imagining that in a week the mobile app widget and notify (bell) widget on browsers are disappearing or being crippled. Maybe that will leave people with browser access alone for an extra few weeks. Maybe not.
I'm telling friends to act on the assumption of many people being lost to access on 7 March, and functionally the ghost town will be ghostier even for those of us remaining until the bomb drops and the bulldozers come rolling in to bury all our years' content.
Director But that doesn't mean it's going to last after Google+ closes... obviously.
ReplyDeleteOf course
ReplyDeleteThey've been careful to say that the widget is the part which will be unavailable, so (if they weren't talking through their hats) notifications themselves should still be available by selecting the "Notifications" tab in G+.
ReplyDeleteThe Notification widget (what used to be called "Mr. Jingles" initially) is going away for all products. The One Google Bar it appears on will remain. Users will have to use a combination of the browser-based notifications and in-product notifications instead of Mr. Jingles.
ReplyDeleteGaffer Venar one has to wonder at the thought process that comes up with “Notifications” that don’t actually notify you...
ReplyDeleteJose Pina Coelho When you're turning off a stop light, which color light would you turn off first?
ReplyDeleteJohn Lewis it would depend on malicious intent. ;-)
ReplyDeleteJohn Lewis amber - so you are left with clear alternatives. Yes. Or No. Instead of maybe perhaps on the other hand ...
ReplyDeleteDiana Studer That would return to how traffic lights worked originally. Yellow/amber was added because having a green light change abruptly to red with no warning while the other direction got a green light at the same moment led to a lot of accidents. There were still a few lights with only red and green around when I was first learning about traffic lights, but they were rare.
ReplyDeleteI think the correct answer is to remove green... because you don't mind a light being red... but one green and one turned off would be dangerous...
ReplyDeleteAlso, remember that a broken traffic light is legally like a four-way stop. At least legally.
Uncoincidentally traffic lights are incapable of lighting green and red simultaneously.
Turn off both green and yellow, and make the red light blink thereby making it a four-directional stop.
ReplyDeleteJohn Skeats Correct answer, IMHO... but here it appears Google has only bad choices because one group controls the green and another the yellow lights.
ReplyDeleteIn Cape Town when we are hit by loadshedding ... the traffic lights are off. Four way stop and turning traffic and roadworks! If we are lucky there is a traffic cop on point duty then it all runs fairly smoothly.
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