Among my interest groups, it only found a niche among the old-school renaissance RPG bloggers, people like Eric Tenkar of tenkarstavern.com. I logged in, and those guys are still posting on Google+ regularly. I rarely go there, however.
Not that it ever had the popularity it needed to be really useful, but I did use it to reach out to my programmer friends. As a kind of minimal effort blog. The biggest advantage with G+, as I used it, was that I could post technical stuff (like I would on Twitter) without confusing my other friends (like I would on Facebook) and it would actually be read (unlike Twitter).
I rarely use either G+ or Facebook, but that feature was indeed a big drawing factor when I originally tried out G+
Could you not do the same thing with Facebook now that it has "Audiences"? I have a "Gamer Friends" one where I could post about DOOM or Overwatch and not weird out "normal" people
Not that I post there as we use Telegram.. but in theory I could
I use it to share Google Photos with my family. While Google Photos is great for organizing your own pictures, it doesn't provide a built in means of sharing.
Yes, and the thing that bothers me most is that there are no RSS feeds available. Having these would be even less noise/distraction. I understand why they don't provide RSS feeds, but I don't like it.
My understanding is (was) that each group can choose to enable RSS if they want. I seem to remember Go having RSS and Dart not (or vice versa). When I asked the one that didn't, they said they choose not to enable it (in order to draw people into the site).
Indeed, the GNU/Linux devs very often uses G+ as blog platform but also there are some communities around the GNU/Linux stuff like elementaryOS[1][2] or WorldOfGnome[2].
My employer uses it as an internal company wide message board for cross-functionality cross-discipline communications (company composed of several subsidiaries and offices across the continents, headcount just under 10K, workforce composed mostly of engineers and B2B sales)..
I do. A fair number of Linux kernel and systemd folks like to post on G+. Sometimes they gripe at each other. I wouldn't say they post often, but it's usually interesting when they do.
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(Don't use any other network either.)
I don't. I actually forgot about it until this question was raised, and I couldn't tell you the last time I visited it.
It is what it is.
Not that it ever had the popularity it needed to be really useful, but I did use it to reach out to my programmer friends. As a kind of minimal effort blog. The biggest advantage with G+, as I used it, was that I could post technical stuff (like I would on Twitter) without confusing my other friends (like I would on Facebook) and it would actually be read (unlike Twitter).
Could you not do the same thing with Facebook now that it has "Audiences"? I have a "Gamer Friends" one where I could post about DOOM or Overwatch and not weird out "normal" people
Not that I post there as we use Telegram.. but in theory I could
I think Google Photos call it "Share to social media" but they give you a link when you do that
https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds
https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman
https://plus.google.com/+AlanCoxLinux
etc.
I quite like reading people like those on G+ without all the noise and distractions on Facebook and Twitter.
[1] https://plus.google.com/communities/104613975513761463450
[2] https://plus.google.com/+elementary/posts
[3] https://plus.google.com/+WorldofGnomeOrg/posts