Google Notifications ("Mr. Jingles") may start disappearing for some users today
As with other changes, the rollout seems to be staggered. This feature is being removed Google-wide.
You can still access G+ notifications at:
https://plus.google.com/notifications/all
For discussion with functioning Notifications, there is #PlexodusReddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/
RSS feed:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/.rss
As with other changes, the rollout seems to be staggered. This feature is being removed Google-wide.
You can still access G+ notifications at:
https://plus.google.com/notifications/all
For discussion with functioning Notifications, there is #PlexodusReddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/
RSS feed:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/.rss
Yah, I just noticed that. I do desktop, so I've still got the clicky on the left hand side-bar.
ReplyDeleteAlready gone for me. 🥺
ReplyDeleteOh hey! Mister Jingles is gone from the top bar of my desktop Web UI. Bye-bye, Mr. Jingles. 'Twas a Good Run. We thank you. 👏🙏
ReplyDeleteHallo!... lieber Edward, zur Tageswende zwischen gestern und heute hatte ich plötzlich eine "G+ Zwang Aktualisierung".
ReplyDeleteIch konnte die G+ App nur weiter benutzen, nachdem ich es Aktualisierte!
Es ist erstaunlich, denn in den Jahren meiner Anwesenheit auf G+, ist es erstmalig für mich, dass ich diese Art von Aktualisierung-Zwang erlebte.
Nach der Aktualisierung hat sich das Erscheinungsbild der App auf meinem Tablet verändert. Die Bedienungsfelder sind nun, von dem bisherigen linken Rand, an den unteren Display Rand verschoben worden.
Die Benachrichtigungsfunktion ist noch Betriebsbereit!
Aber ich sehe jetzt vermehrt, aktuelle "letzte" Beiträge von G+ Freunden, die sich damit jetzt endgültig von ihrer bisherigen Google+ Anwesenheit verabschieden.
Looking forward to getting that space back in my OGB.
ReplyDeleteIt just went from my desktop FF as I restarted it because it wouldn't offer me spell-check in languages I'd downloaded/activated.
ReplyDeleteR.I.P. Mr Jingles, you served us well.
ReplyDeleteIf Google keeps on like this, they will shutdown the site a week earlier without warning. o.O
ReplyDeleteI cannot get rid of the feeling, I am the mouse in a big experimental setup.
ReplyDeleteOn my bedside Macbook Air I've not reloaded and the bell still works past midnight, 15 minutes into March 7th. hurrah!
ReplyDeleteDerDrako This particular milestone was announced in advance.
ReplyDeleteHe's been missing for me for several days now.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius Yes, but the announced date was tomorrow, not today.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne It's always tomorrow somewhere.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius are you confusing tomorrow with 5:00?
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius anyway that's not true in Kiribati. If you are there it's either today or yesterday everywhere. It's not tomorrow anywhere.
ReplyDelete❨❨❨David C. Frier❩❩❩ It's always Friday somewhere ;-)
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius In the front seat.
ReplyDeleteyoutube.com - Rebecca Black - Friday
Edward Morbius
ReplyDeleteTo kill Mr. Jingles a day earlier?
When? Where? :c
So, farewell then, Mr Jingles.
ReplyDeleteI guess having
one
single
location
for every Notification from every Google
Product
Was just too sensible.
Keith's Mum is a bit confused
by this.
Although I always used a bookmarked link
to https://plus.google.com/notifications/all
E. J. Thribb (17½)
Edward Morbius now that is true.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius confirmed gone here too (Thursday AM, CET).
ReplyDeleteI am of two minds about the Notifications. Too many times did I respond directly in the tool, only to have a medium-to-long reply fail/disappear somehow... ugh (even circa 2012-2015 with a reasonably modern browser version this was kinda unacceptable, LocalStorage/Offline etc. has been around for a good while, like late 2009 / early 2010...).
But that behavior (and of course it worked most of the time), pointed toward a "desire path" of wanting to juggle one's most tip-of-mind discussions in a light-weight format, without changing the entire page context to a new post permalink.
Of course, there was largely no reason to confine it to quite as small of a footprint, 1/3 or even 1/2 of page as overlay would have prob worked even better.
Google had long ago lost the plot on info density with the G+ design, never being clear whether they wanted to chase Instagram-ish photo use case (which just about always was fools gold, & IMO would have done tons better as a separate app, MAYBE running on the same architecture/ ecosystem behind the scenes...).
So I guess the Notification dropdown was a however small way to remedy this in people's "work"-flow.
I'm also now seeing a new (?) "G My Business" icon that lands on what I assume is meant to serve as a replacement to the "G profile about" page...?
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ReplyDeletehttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cbx8rDPDwkSWMrzDe9fhFdb4VDRdEulyrg2SA4pfYKMwtffnqgG9gT3cKdvnAtl1bWLn6TuSlZ7bxw=s0
It was upgrading Chrome or Chrome OS that removed your Mr Jingles
ReplyDeleteMr Jingles lives - sidebar notifications - unread - jingle!
ReplyDeleteIt looks so wrield without the bell. also yes they remove it even in a chrome version that can not be updated.
ReplyDeleteSurprise!
ReplyDeleteIn case you were wondering. This official Chrome G+ Notification Extension from Google.com doesn't work.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google%2B-notifications/boemmnepglcoinjcdlfcpcbmhiecichi?hl=en-GB
Alex Schleber Gosh, I feel left out. I'm on G Suite and have no "my business" icon. How does that make sense?
ReplyDeleteJeff Diver you can have mine. I have 'no business' to use the option for.
ReplyDeleteAlex Schleber I'd long ago expanded the Notifications panel to full height and about 2/3 the viewport width, and am (still) using that now. The immediate access to notifications and ability to directly address items there has been one of G+'s hidden killer features. I miss that functionality on other sites, e.g., Diaspora.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius Screenshot?
ReplyDeleteJohn Lewis See:
ReplyDeletei.imgur.com
(That's this thread, in the preview pane.)
Jeff Diver I’ve had My Business icon for years.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's the last time I saw the bell, as it happens....
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne My Business appears to be a Google service independent of G+ and not connected to G Suite. I'd never heard of it until Alex Schleber happened to mention it here.
ReplyDeletegoogle.com - Google My Business Questions and Answers - Google My Business
Jeff Diver Yes. It is how you manage your business listings on things like Google Maps. I’ve been using it for years.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius yeah, cool mod. They left so much proverbial $ on the table in terms of minor changes that changed the whole feel of the thing significantly. I remember the guy that had created a dense feed view option plugin early on (it looked/felt SO useful), but gave up in short order bc Google kept changing their underlying HTML/CSS on a nearly daily basis.
ReplyDeleteAll they ever needed was a write-API (i.e. "full API"), and people would have been off to the races with better/specialized clients... lesigh...
Alex Schleber Buzz had a Write API. But instead of attempting to solve the the auto-post spam problem, they simply turned it off for G+.
ReplyDeletebut controlling spam is haaaaard said every company that profits from spam.
ReplyDelete❨❨❨David C. Frier❩❩❩ Meanwhile, that very same company successfully controls spam on Gmail with almost no false-positives or false-negatives. They let maybe one spam message slip through a month, and the number of false positives is so low that I don’t even bother checking my spam folder.
ReplyDeleteAnd this is for an email address that I have had for literally decades, and which appears all over the ‘net.
So, don’t tell me Google doesn’t know how to detect and quarantine spam. The problem is that Google is basically hundreds of little independent fiefdoms with no central organization. That’s what G+ was supposed to be, but the other warlords made sure they axed that early on.
If Google ever did figure out how to get their sub-groups to work together, they would quickly run the world.
I'd check the spam folder every few days if I were you. I pull two or three legit emails out of there a week.
ReplyDelete❨❨❨David C. Frier❩❩❩ I found a couple of marginal messages (e.g. computer-generated requests to respond to customer service surveys from vendors I actually do business with). But nothing actually important.
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond yup. I remember you and I discussing this stuff circa 2015(?)... of course nothing ever got better at G+ since around then, I am pretty convinced that Google had by then determined to shut it down some years later at a less fail-shaming time/opportunity.
ReplyDeleteFull Read/Write API could have given them a clear leg up vs. FB and especially Twitter, which had wasted all of the dev goodwill & thus significant feature experimentation around those years