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Google+ alternatives feature comparison spreadsheet: last call for comments Please add your comments in the spreadsheet by 12:00 EDT/ 09:00 PDT / 16:00 UTC, Tuesday 9 Oct 2018; after that, I will make the spreadsheet editable by those who have asked for access (by commenting with a logged-in¹ account asking for access) so we can begin adding data about actual alternatives. I'll handle editing and will take care of any structural conflicts or figuring out edge-cases, but since I don't personally use any of the alternatives, I won't be able to fill in the details myself. So we need users of the alternatives to help out. We also need folks with special needs—a11y-or i18n related, topic-related, feature-related, etc.—to watch the sheet as it fills in and give some of the promising alternatives a try for your special need, since that can only be really checked by trying (these alternatives sometimes promise more than they deliver). If you know somebody who's already deca...

RFC: Spreadsheet for alternative comparison Update: Please finalize comments by 12:00 EDT/ 09:00 PDT / 16:00 UTC, Tuesday 9 Oct 2018; at that time, I'll make the sheet editable to those who comment asking for edit access here, or in the spreadsheet (while logged in to your Google account; I can't give access to anonymice). We can change structure even once it's editable, but it will be a lot easier if we can get as much of the structure set before editing begins—but I don't want to lose the enthusiasm window here either. I just put together a spreadsheet where we can do feature comparison, since right now there are a lot of posts where people are listing things free-form and discussing them in comments, which makes it hard to do comparison. Right now, the spreadsheet is comment-only, but if y'all think it looks useful, please comment as instructed in the first sheet and I'll open up editing. Overall comments—and especially, if this looks useful or not—in the ...