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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/

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

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 ...

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...

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...

Well worth following Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Google+ Exodus Collection If you want to follow just my posts about the shutdown of Google+, my ongoing development of the Plexodus-Tools set of export / migration utilities, and other news related to the Google+ Exodus, but aren't interested in my other content such as my photography and multimedia interests, you can either follow my account and unfollow individual Collections, or solely follow my Google+ Exodus Collection. :) Since it's at 1936 followers, I'm kinda curious if we can reach 2000 before this place is torched to the ground. ;) #Plexodus #Google #GooglePlus #GPlus #GooglePlusExodus #GooglePlusShutdown #Goofle #2April2019 #FollowFriday #ShamelessPlug #MassMigration #SocialMedia

You have only till February 4th to archive all the comments on your Blogger blogs As mentioned on https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133 you have only two to three days left before Blogger blogs no longer include the Google+ Comments on each post: "If you’ve used Google+ for comments on your own or other sites, this feature will be removed from Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All your Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2, 2019." See the below reshared post for more details. Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter PSA: Google+ Comments for Blogger owners have 3 days to manually archive the comments on all their blog posts Google isn't providing other people's comments to your own Blogger blogs through Google Data Takeout Based on the answers of a moderator of the Google+ Help community, the official community designated by Google for questions regarding the #GooglePlusShutdown in their Jan 30th announce...

For those of you tearing your hairs out at the "Archive Incomplete" error from Google Data Takeout requests. Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter A brief PSA regarding 'Archive incomplete' errors on Google Data Takeout Since I see many posts about people just trying over and over by requesting a new archive from Google Data Takeout ( https://takeout.google.com ), in the hopes it will get rid of the "Archive Incomplete" error, and getting frustrated when it still shows up, I thought I'd share my advice on it. It's not necessarily as bad as it sounds Just because it says it's incomplete, doesn't mean that it's couldn't find half your content. In my case, it's (consistently the same) two files that couldn't be included, and they are both actually the same video! Inside your archive is a list of files that Google Data Takeout failed to retrieve! While it's mentioned in expanded section of the list of archives on #G...

How the shutdown of Google+ affects Google+ Comments for Blogger While my post here on Google+ is mostly ranting at/about Blogger for not providing a migration path, and being so late with informing its users, the linked article is Blogger's announcement post going into details on how Blogger will be affected by the #GooglePlusShutdown. In short, any comments posted to Blogger blogs using the Google+ Comments system rather than Blogger's original own Comments system, will be lost. +1 and share buttons and related Google+ web integration will also disappear from Blogger. No migration path is provided. Relevant links: Blogger's announcement: https://blogger.googleblog.com/2019/01/an-update-on-google-and-blogger.html Google's announcement: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133 Google's F.A.Q.: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723 Google's F.A.Q. answer regarding Google+ Comments for Blogger: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#blogger ...