The question "what time on April 2 is G+ being shut down" is being asked.
Your safest assumption is AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DEFINITION of April 2.
Google haven't bothered to inform us.
If it's not painfully clear, this site is going away in four days.
DON'T create any more content you want to preserve.
DO save content and contacts.
DO subscribe for post-shutdown updates to https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus
Post and comments archive:
https://gplusmigration.blogspot.com
FAQ: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/FAQ
Wiki: https://social.antefriguserat.de/
Your safest assumption is AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DEFINITION of April 2.
Google haven't bothered to inform us.
If it's not painfully clear, this site is going away in four days.
DON'T create any more content you want to preserve.
DO save content and contacts.
DO subscribe for post-shutdown updates to https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus
Post and comments archive:
https://gplusmigration.blogspot.com
FAQ: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/FAQ
Wiki: https://social.antefriguserat.de/
My battery is low and it’s getting dark.
ReplyDeleteHopw they deside to not cause i love this app
ReplyDeleteDr.Awesome Gamer At this point, for them not to shut down would require a Executive Order from US President Donald Trump, which is more than a little unlikely as he would prefer to break up Alphabet rather than preserve it.
ReplyDeleteTokelau is UTC+13. So, at 00:01 on 4/2 in Tokelau, it will be 11:00 4/1 in England, 07:01 EDT 4/1 on the east coast of the US, 04:01 PDT 4/1 on the west coast of the US and 01:01 4/1 in Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, Google+ could start disappearing as soon as any time on April Fools' Day for much of the world.
Brian Holt Hawthorne ...which for many, would seem darkly appropriate.
ReplyDeleteAssume it's closing down one April 1st at midnight, your time, and plan accordingly. Never delay.
ReplyDeleteMy personal guess is either noon UTC, 5 am California, or else 6 am California time. But midnight California (just turned April 2) would not astonish me either.
ReplyDeleteWhat I do not expect is an evening (California) shutdown: I think it will be more towards the beginning of the California work day.
Dr.Awesome Gamer
ReplyDeleteThat ship has sailed L O N G ago. Consumer side G+ WILL end April 2, 2019.
Probably it won't be a binary shutdown. But don't expect that anything will work when April starts.
ReplyDeleteIf we're taking bets, then 10am PST 2-April is when the big switch gets activated. It will need high level sign off and final approval so a couple of key people will have to be in the office, had their first coffee and checked their emails.
ReplyDeleteIt will then migrate outwards across the googleplex datacentres and cloud for the next couple of hours. I don't expect any data to start being deleted for a week or so after that to allow final Takeouts and so on to complete. And there's quite a lot of systems that will be affected in small ways, so even if the main plus.google.com goes dark and redirects somewhere, bits of G+ fragment may stick around for a while.
Julian Bond PST or PDT?
ReplyDeleteMaybe they will pull the plug as they leave the office this afternoon (but I'm in Cape Town on London time so it's midday already)
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond I don’t expect plus.google.com to be redirected, since it needs to keep working for those of us with G Suite.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne More likely a sign-in wall.
ReplyDeleteWalter Roberson Gah. I haven't a clue. Pacific time anyway.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius Would it help if I offer to become an owner of this community April 1st? I have a GSuite account which means the communities that I co-own won't be deleted. All content by non-GSuite will be deleted though but this means I could post a #signalflare in perpetuum as people will still be able to find & read this page or stumble upon it following old links. All my other posts here would stay too but I can delete them so just the #signalflare stays up. Just a thought, this is what I plan to do with 'Build your own ceramic 3d printer' community. I can babysit all the dead communities :)
ReplyDeleteDries Verbruggen Thanks, but no. Not publicly visible and no content == worthless.
ReplyDeleteThere is a posts + comments archive current through 28 March here:
https://gplusmigration.blogspot.com
John Lewis FYI Dreis's offer above.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius no problem. I do think it will be publicly visible though, otherwise indeed no reason to do it.
ReplyDeleteSo are we just a bunch of April Fools?
ReplyDeleteBen Bradley Google was considerate enough to shut G+ down April 2nd.
ReplyDeleteDries Verbruggen ThatsTheJoke.jpg ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhen I look at google+ I see the future of stadia.
ReplyDeleteJack Lee What’s stadia? Other than the plural of stadium?
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne common, google it. 😅
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Stadia
ReplyDeleteThanks, Edward Morbius .
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