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Want to contribute to the Surviving Community Survey? It's easy! Pick a broad term to search on, then open a bunch of the communities that show up in the results. For each, click on the number of members area (where member pics are shown), change the drop-down from "Members" to "Moderators" and see if there's an account labeled "Owner" that also has a name listed. Unnamed accounts are probably on their way out. If you find one that's got an owner, submit it through the link below. ...and maybe invite the owner to this community, too. :) Originally shared by Michael J. Coffey Surviving Community Survey Inspired by Eli Fennell's recent post, I propose a project to survey existing Communities for the ones likely to make it beyond the 60 day deletion clock. I've created a form to submit them here: https://forms.gle/SzQ6yZaKD6KtkmRYA The list of responses can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0P...

Here's a question about the future: If they'll be doing away with Collections, will the posts that are currently in a collection go away, or will they automatically shift into Public? 'Cause I've got a science collection that had 69,000 followers, so I put a ton of posts there and it'd be cool if I could keep them. I don't relish the thought of individually choosing "remove from this collection" on each of them.

Community Survey Update, 5 April 2019 Continuing to survey for communities, I decided that I'd go beyond the communities I'm a member of and do a search on a generic term and see what was there. (Since I'm gay, I searched communities for "gay".) I'm seeing different things in communities than I did just yesterday: * Communities with no owner, only moderators * Communities with neither owners nor moderators * Communities with owners/moderators, but nobody has a name, just profile pic and "(unnamed)" when the user card is brought up In all cases that I've looked at so far, there's no yellow/red banner warning of the community due to lack of GSuite owner. Edit: After checking ~100 results, I found none that will survive. Some still had posts that hadn't been deleted, but all the spot-checks I did showed people who hadn't posted publicly in the last couple of years...so GSuite, but no longer using G+.

I've noticed something odd. I actually have three GSuite accounts -- my own domain, which is my default email and default account, plus two school email addresses, neither of which have G+ activated. For purposes of G+ then, I just have one account. But every time I'm in this account and follow a link within G+ it switches identities to my account with the high school where I volunteer. For example, with Eli Fennell 's fantastic list of active post-'pocalypse Plussers, every link I click on goes to their profile as viewed by a non-Plus account, so to follow that person, I have to switch identities back to this one, and only then can I follow. Weirdly, every time I do that, Google designates this account, the G+ enabled one, the one I'm logged into, as the default. So if it's the default, why is it switching away every time I follow a link? Makes no sense.

Surviving Community Survey Inspired by Eli Fennell's recent post, I propose a project to survey existing Communities for the ones likely to make it beyond the 60 day deletion clock. I've created a form to submit them here: https://forms.gle/SzQ6yZaKD6KtkmRYA The list of responses can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0P-caFX3enI8HnrRaCqmHQD2bx65kj84PT9K13zIVo/edit?usp=sharing Basically, just go through your communities and look for any that don't have a red band across the top. If it has a yellow band (only one GSuite owner) or no band (multiple GSuite owners), submit it. Once we've got a good collection, we can see if there are gaps we'd like to close before making new ones becomes impossible. To find who the owners are, just click on the little member bubbles above the community name, then choose "Moderators" from the drop-down where it says "Members" by default.

I'm here. Still alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H18XBTDNF78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H18XBTDNF78