Skip to main content

The Google+ self-disassembly is going into full-swing.

The Google+ self-disassembly is going into full-swing.
Today I got notified that the Notification Widget is going away on March, 7th.
This means we'll have to manually visit each community/followed person to see updates.

The clear intent is to kill discussion another month earlier.

Thank you Google

PS: For something that's supposed to be a ghost town, it sure is taking a lot of effort to stop.

Comments

  1. Definitely for the browser, but nowhere says anything about the app.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Phạm Chung Hiếu it's been news for over a week.

    ReplyDelete
  3. It's partially true Jose Pina Coelho but doesn't mean you won't get notifications at all.

    The notification widget under the bell in your Google account is going away - this is not actually a part of G+ (if you look at the bottom of that drop down, it also includes notifications from Google Photos, and presumably at one time was going to be expanded to include notifications from other Google apps).

    However, you will still get notifications at https://plus.google.com/notifications, you can choose to enable notifications in your browser, and you will still get notifications via the mobile app, and your device's notification shade.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Also, the Notifications Page should still work. It is just the notifications on the OGB that are going away. I haven’t used the Notifications widget in years.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Julie Wills Yup. We were typing at the same time.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Julie Wills one of the things I really appreciated about G+ was that I had the ability to look at the bell icon and see a clear message, like "you have 7 items", instead of allowing it to yell for my attention via push notifications.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Jose Pina Coelho Well then yes, you'll have to live with that for 3 weeks or so.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Phạm Chung Hiếu the source is a black banner on the pulldown of the notification widget.

    ReplyDelete
  9. There still is an URL for notifications.
    The one that is one the very botto.lm of the widget.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Julie Wills Thanks for the information, we really appreciate your help. Would you like mod status?

    ReplyDelete
  11. John Lewis Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I'm not sure I would contribute any more with mod status than without, unless you feel it would be beneficial.

    The green circle around my profile pic denotes that I am a G+ PE, for those who understand it.

    ReplyDelete
  12. There is the notification bell on the left sidebar.

    ReplyDelete
  13. As already mentioned by others Jeanne Hannigan

    ReplyDelete
  14. Julie Wills Welcome to being a mod.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

New comments on this blog are moderated. If you do not have a Google identity, you are welcome to post anonymously. Your comments will appear here after they have been reviewed. Comments with vulgarity will be rejected.

”go"