Has anyone thought about what to do about existing collections? Google has said they are going away, but I have not seen anything about what that means. Question we need answered: will the posts in collections revert to public posts?
I’ve been thinking about taking my most popular collection and making a community out of it.
I’ve been thinking about taking my most popular collection and making a community out of it.
The question is - how you want to convert it ? ;-)
ReplyDeleteThere are some Firefox add-ons for saving all images or saving the whole page but anyway, it's not easy at all.
If there are many posts, in a collection and would like to save them manually post by post, it's such boringly disgusting job :-(
I was doing it already, once and really do not want it again :-)
They’re (re-)introducing tags so maybe collections will simply become tagged posts. It would be nice if the ***** team would be more forthcoming so that we’re not just left to cross our fingers that more of our posts are just going to be deleted.
ReplyDeleteElizee T. My plan was just to reshare them gradually to a new community.
ReplyDeleteAkira Y Brian Holt Hawthorne They did actually explain the process in this case. One thing Google is good at is communicating GSuite roadmaps.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is, Public Collection Posts just revert to Public, Private to domain-only.
I don't see that in the shutdown roadmap. Is there another roadmap that you can link?
ReplyDeleteIt seems to suggest that they'll just sit in a public collection that you won't be able to post to, but it's not clear if that's the last part of the phase out.
Most of the public functions will be very limited due to lack of visibility in search results. At least it seems that the communities will function normally for those who are already members, although we likely won't be seeing those numbers grow.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/9229693?hl=en
Collections
Last updated: April 2, 2019
Collections will continue to exist on April 2, 2019, but will start being phased out in the future.
G Suite users won’t be able to:
Create new collections. Any existing collections will remain.
Add content to a collection that is not domain-restricted.
G Suite users will still be able to:
Add content to a collection that is domain-restricted.
Delete internal and external collections that they own.
Another outstanding standout feature they're removing... shaking my head...
ReplyDeleteHere I'm wishing other social media, especially Mastodon and Diaspora*, had them, and now G+ is getting rid of it...
I loved being able to follow a person, but excluding their politics Collections...
Eli Fennell Where did you see that? I haven’t seen that level of detail in anything from Google yet.
ReplyDeleteI should have clarified that Collections you already created will still exist, you just won't be able to add to then. The other bit about Private Posts is merely what they explained about retiring Circles.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne See above.
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