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Google+ Ghosttown: Hauntingly like Hiroshima Walking the wasteland that is the #GooglePlus's #GhostTown, is hauntingly like walking through post-blast #Hiroshima: https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/155844/the-shadows-of-hiroshima-haunting-imprints-of-people-killed-by-the-blast/ The occasional post reshared from a consumer account by a G Suite account before the #GooglePlusShutdown still showing the contents of the message, but their name is blanked out by asterisks. The mostly-empty communities left behind show that there was once a civilisation with many homes and gathering places here, but which are now desolate places with ghostly shadows left behind. Google+ a ghost town? I guess it ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy after all... :( #GPlus #GPlusShutdown #Survivor https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/155844/the-shadows-of-hiroshima-haunting-imprints-of-people-killed-by-the-blast/

Originally shared by Sandy Ao #Goodbye #GooglePlus - Wired article. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-plus-goodbye https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-plus-goodbye

Just a last reshare, cu all on the other side!! #signalflare Originally shared by Udo Rader With g+ about to shut down soon, those are my other social network handles, in case you want to stay in contact: * twitter: https://twitter.com/riaschissl * MeWe: https://mewe.com/i/udorader * pluspora: udo_rader@pluspora.com I've been using twitter for a couple of years already, so that will stay for sure, it is the "safe bet". #googleplus #g+ #googleplusshutdown #signalflare #gplus

Originally shared by Sandy Ao I am beginning to get #500. That’s an #error. There was an error. Please try again later. That’s all we know. Ok the end has just started..... #googlePlus... you are a real #Robot .... 1:13 A.M

Originally shared by Sandy Ao It's 11:12 P.M. here... Well may be this could be my closing picture for #GooglePlus.. .. One Question: #GooglePlus What will you do with all the photos that you have collected from us G+ers all these years? Are you going to start Google Photos? Like Google Books..! If you do such... well you are being Cheeky then I started with a #Lotus picture and here is another Lotus for you....

Yet another F+MGE release, with enhanced video-detection capabilities Originally shared by Friends+Me There's a new Google+ Exporter release 1.8.4 Further improved video detection, should allow you to download more of your videos. Download from https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me * FIX further improved video detection. #GooglePlusRefugees #GooglePlus #Google+ #DataLiberation #DataExport https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me

Plexodus Tools -- data migration Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Screenshots of the work-in-progress console frontend for Plexodus-Tools running in Termux on Android Spent some more time today working on the frontend for the Plexodus-Tools Bash scripts. So far I've tested it on #macOS El Capitan + #iTerm2 + #Homebrew, and #Android + #Termux, and Ubuntu GNU Linux via SSH, all running a recent version of #Bash Screenshots show the main menu, the settings menu, the Setup output, the self-update output, Takeout archive data file extraction, and URL extraction from the Takeout data files. All screenshots were taken from my Android phone. As mentioned in my previous #PlexodusTools update, installation instructions are available at https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools/blob/master/README.md#installation-instructions Just a few more days left, before part of these scripts become useless... Still have some more archiving and data analysis to do myself too... #GooglePlus ...

Limiting my goodbye-party posts here (with so many no-nonsense, no time participants.) But a reminder (doh!) - This is the end, my friend... The last full working weekend to clean up remains and do some last salvaging of a live G+. (But I've posted, and continue "until the end", some music posts of relevance, both publicly and to the "Lights out" community, where some party/wakes are.) #googleplus #gplusrefugees #googlecountdown #end #googleisevil

Google+ Mass Migration short FAQ Q: When is Google+ shutting down? A: April 2, 2019. Five months earlier than originally announced. March 7, 2019 for Google+ APIs , including Google+ Sign-in and integrations for web & mobile apps . https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133 https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown Q: Are any other Google services being shut down as well on April 2, 2019? A: No. This includes Gmail, Google Photos, Blogger, YouTube, Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Hangouts, AdSense, and many, many other Google products which will NOT shut down on April 2, 2019. Q: Where should I go? A: There is no one answer. The Google+ Mass Migration community can help you chose where to go, but you decide what fits best. Where your personal contacts go matters most. Major alternatives are listed here: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Established_G%2B_Exodus_Communities Q How do I know where people are going? A: Some have used this form: https://goo....

Google+ Mass Migration short FAQ Q: When is Google+ shutting down? A: April 2, 2019. Five months earlier than originally announced. March 7, 2019 for Google+ APIs , including Google+ Sign-in and integrations for web & mobile apps . https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133 https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown Q: Are any other Google services being shut down as well on April 2, 2019? A: No. This includes Gmail, Google Photos, Blogger, YouTube, Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Hangouts, AdSense, and many, many other Google products which will NOT shut down on April 2, 2019. Q: Where should I go? A: There is no one answer.* The Google+ Mass Migration community can help you chose where to go, but you decide what fits best. Where your personal contacts go matters most. Major alternatives are listed here: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Established_G%2B_Exodus_Communities Q How do I know where people are going? A: Some hav...

F+MGE release Originally shared by Friends+Me There's a new Google+ Exporter release 1.8.0 Tell you Google+ friends about G+Exporter, there's only a few weeks left to back up your Google+ fully. Videos attached to posts are detected and made available for download but still not part of the WP and Blogger export though, that functionality will be available in one of the future releases. Posts and comments +1 counts are newly available in JSON export. We strongly suggest refreshing all feeds and downloading all images and videos before Google+ shuts down. Do not wait for anything, do it now. Download from https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me * NEW uploaded videos are detected in downloaded posts and available for download. * NEW count of +1s is downloaded for posts and comments. * NEW 2 times faster communication to Google+ servers means faster posts and comments download. * FIX JSON structure description was updated https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOYJe61sI1GbO9qpFZJtw...

The G+ to #MeWeImporter is now live. http://bit.ly/2W406rT We welcome all the awesome #GooglePlus users who've joined the party here at #MeWe - the #socialnetwork with #privacy! You can now effortlessly move your content from #G+toMeWe. Get your G+ content downloaded from G+ and uploaded to MeWe soon! G+ officially shuts down on April 2. #announcements #MeWeRocks #RIPGooglePlus http://bit.ly/2W406rT

Google+ Mass Migration short FAQ Q: When is Google+ shutting down? A: April 2, 2019. Five months earlier than originally announced. March 7, 2019 for Google+ APIs , including Google+ Sign-in and integrations for web & mobile apps . https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133 https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown Q: Are any other Google services being shut down as well on April 2, 2019? A: No. This includes Gmail, Google Photos, Blogger, YouTube, Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Hangouts, AdSense, and many, many other Google products which will NOT shut down on April 2, 2019. Q: Where should I go? A: There is no one answer.* The Google+ Mass Migration community can help you chose where to go, but you decide what fits best. Where your personal contacts go matters most. Major alternatives are listed here: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Established_G%2B_Exodus_Communities Q How do I know where people are going? A: Some have used this form: https://goo...

Working with exported data Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Progress on Takeout Google+ Stream Posts Export Tool I've been making some progress with the Google Data Takeout conversion part of my #PlexodusTools project. I can currently let one of the scripts parse all the JSON files in the extracted Takeout/Google+ Stream/Posts directory, and convert the JSON to simplified HTML files in an (imho) logical directory structure, based on what kind of posts it is, and what its privacy setting is: data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/communities/$communityID-$communityName/$userID data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/events/$eventID-$eventName/$userID data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts/$userID/circles/$circleName data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts/$userID/collections/$collectionID-$collectionName data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts/$userID/users/$userId-$userN...

F+MGE Update Release Originally shared by Friends+Me There's a new Google+ Exporter bugfix release 1.7.13 Download from https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me * NEW improved user interface. * FIXED Google+ collections detection. #GooglePlusRefugees #GooglePlus #Google+ #DataLiberation #DataExport https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me

WOW Archiving G+ comments of Blogger Via Filip H.F. Slagter Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Big PlexodusTools update for Blogger owners who had GooglePlus Comments widget enabled for their blog: My #PlexodusTools git repository at https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools has had some big updates in the past week, specifically the https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools/blob/master/README.md#google-comments-on-blogger-blogs-exporter section. The `bin/export_blogger_comments.sh` Bash script can be used to archive all #GPlus Comments for your #Blogger blog. It's basically a wrapper script around all the other scripts, and a way to collect all the retrieved data into a single JSON file. Note, most of these tools can also be used if you use Google+ Comments for Websites. Today's freshly committed code will not only request relevant JSON from the APIs, it will also combine it all into single structured JSON file per domain. Hurry up though, as the Bash scripts rel...

Friends+Me Google+ Exporter update A fix has been released for the earlier bug (see below). Re-download if you're having issues. NOTE: THIS BUILD BREAKS FOR WINDOWS AND Linux. Should work for MaxOS. A fix is pending. Originally shared by Friends+Me There's a new Google+ Exporter bugfix release 1.7.9 Google account detection updated and a few minor UI updates including Refresh All button. Download from https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me * NEW Refresh All button to refresh all feeds with at least one already downloaded post. * NEW show last time the feed was downloaded/refreshed. * FIXED Google account detection. * FIXED MacOS app menu extended according to standards. #GooglePlusRefugees #GooglePlus #Google+ #DataLiberation #DataExport https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me

#Google+ #GooglePlus #Takeout #Shutdown #JSON #PostgreSQL I rarely do public posts this technical... I'm not sure I ever have but since the reality is that the G+ shutdown is happening, I wanted to share my thoughts on using Google Takeout to get my data. I'm also posting this to the Google+ Mass Migration Community in hope it might help someone else. ~ ~ ~ Let me give you a quick reason for this post. What I think pains many of us who really embraced G+ and to be honest, are very upset about this shutdown, is that we spend a LOT of time posting here. As of my last takeout archive on 2019-02-13 I have made 4237 posts since 2011-07-10 (you'll see how I know that later). That may seem like a lot but it really isn't compared to other people I know. The number isn't what's important, its my time and that is something that can't be quantified because time is invaluable. For that reason, the prospect of losing the results of nearly 8 years of my life spent h...

Google+ Mass Migration short FAQ Q: When is Google+ shutting down? A: April 2, 2019. Five months earlier than originally announced. March 7, 2019 for Google+ APIs , including Google+ Sign-in and integrations for web & mobile apps . https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133 https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown Q: Are any other Google services being shut down as well on April 2, 2019? A: No. This includes Gmail, Google Photos, Blogger, YouTube, Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Hangouts, AdSense, and many, many other Google products which will NOT shut down on April 2, 2019. Q: Where should I go? A: There is no one answer.* The Google+ Mass Migration community can help you chose where to go, but you decide what fits best. Where your personal contacts go matters most. Major alternatives are listed here: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Established_G%2B_Exodus_Communities Q How do I know where people are going? A: Some have used this form: https://goo...

Bugfix Friends+Me Google+ Exporter Release I'm willing to put money on the fact that it won't take a week to create an archive, as Google Data Takeout is doing these days. Originally shared by Friends+Me There's a new Google+ Exporter bugfix release 1.7.8 Improved Blogger and WordPress export, images from post comments extracted for download. Download from https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me * NEW author name tag is used for Blogger exported posts. * NEW embed.ly link preview is used for WordPress 5 exports since WP do not support link preview natively. * NEW images are extracted from post comments and available for download. * FIXED export bug Invalid character in string . #GooglePlusRefugees #GooglePlus #Google+ #DataLiberation #DataExport https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me