• bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    It was a fine product I don’t know about wonderful. The communities could be good that was true. But the actual UX was pretty middle of the road IMO.

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      If you were into tech, the tech people were amazing. Yonatan Zunger comes to mind. He was a backend engineer at Google and the guy was great.

      I also met many people who are still friends, many of whom became real life friends too.

      I even got an amazing job thanks to my contacts on g+.

      The feed layout was awesome. The fact that everything got fed to rss. The fact that you could tailor posts so easily. God I miss it. Only social media I’ve ever really been a part of.

      It was wonderful ♥️

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        6 months ago

        A wonderful product or a wonderful community? It sounds like you’re describing the people who were on it and not the platform itself.

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          6 months ago

          The platform was wonderful. Intuitive, powerful, everything every other platform was not. Google started killing it slowly long before it died, but in its heyday it was amazing.

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        6 months ago

        Hey like I said the communities were great! But no worries I’m glad it was a great experience for you and I don’t want to be needlessly contrarian here

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        6 months ago

        Also basically every Linux big name posted there. It was so great. I’m still sad it’s gone