https://medium.com/openbook-org/the-time-has-come-17965aa9a0d6
I got not much use for G+ over the years, and I'm not in the need for an alternative.
I'm mostly looking down at the "alternatives", but #Openbook got me curious. I think it deserves more mentions and I hope to see some experience feedback here.
https://medium.com/openbook-org/the-time-has-come-17965aa9a0d6
I got not much use for G+ over the years, and I'm not in the need for an alternative.
I'm mostly looking down at the "alternatives", but #Openbook got me curious. I think it deserves more mentions and I hope to see some experience feedback here.
https://medium.com/openbook-org/the-time-has-come-17965aa9a0d6
By the way, you can vote for data import from G+: openbook.canny.io - Google+ Friends+Me Data Importer | Features & Ideas | Openbook
ReplyDeleteI'm over there and checking out out already. I'm @MichaelW
ReplyDeleteI'm @samuelpenn on it. Probably won't do much until there's a desktop app though.
ReplyDeleteI am interested but will only look into it after the desktop version is published. 99% of my time I am at the desktop so the app-only version is of only very limited use and also limited interest to me. I thought about giving them money but after the announcement that the desktop/browser version will be months after the app I did not, als I personally see this "mobile first" as very wrong and a bad decision.
ReplyDeletestefan holzhauer I believe they had to make a choice what to focus on. Realistically, can't deliver everything at once with limited budget and time, and there are both their kickstarter schedule and G+ closure schedule. At least they met their web version goal even without your support. And expanding from mobile version will be easier than trying to shrink into mobile something that was not designed with mobile limitations in mind. Some of existing communication tools are struggling on the mobile because they can't be adapted for low network and battery usage. And if you can't come to mobile at this day and age - your enterprise is dead on arrival. "Works for me" can't save the situation.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but that is bullshit. A browser version would have been scaled without any problem for mobile and desktop so that should have been the way to go instead of an app. That way both mobile an desktop would have been served without discriminating desktop users. An app could have been provided later - and even that could have been build based on the html5/css3 browser version. So in my opinion the "mobile first" approach is very wrong from a technical, a usability and a development view. The resources were obviously allocated wrong. This could have been organised better. I was very happy about this project, but now my trust in them is quite damaged and I am no longer sure I can trust them to provide a good, meanginful product that is worth my while.
ReplyDeleteIn addition: I applied for a beta account months ago and my place in the queue should have been reached multiple times. However, I never got any invitation to the beta. So that is a second point that I criticize: They did not hold that promise. Too me that does not look trustworthy.
The beta phase isn't due to start for a few more weeks.
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