R.I.P. Google Plus

Anon Adderlan · October 09, 2018, 06:21:25 AM

Quote from: Apparition;1059404Oooh, it gets worse. Ars Technica just posted an article with more details:

Wow.

Note to future generations: If your motto is "don't be evil" you probably are.

Quote from: Rhedyn;1059405Google has gotten into the habit of destroying their business branches rather than fixing problems.

Quote from: Lynn;1059429Google has a bad habit of floating out new technology, getting unhappy that they aren't #1 in that space, and then walking away.

Google+ had a predecessor called Google Buzz. Remember that?

Quote from: GeekEclectic;1059448And Google Wave. 'Member that?

Google Wave was a great tool for running tabletop RPGs, as was Hangouts, which is why G+ has such a strong RPG community in the first place. It's insane how many effective tools and APIs were dropped for 'reasons' by Google. And I was witness to the genesis of Android. It was and still is a badly engineered piece of garbage. But who needs to be good when the current state of iOS is your only competition, and you have a lockdown on app distribution?

Software has become less useful and usable over the last decade, and it looks like things are only going to get worse.

Apparition · October 09, 2018, 07:33:35 AM

Quote from: S'mon;1059476I just hope Blogger is safe - I basically use it for all my RPG campaign needs. Would be very sad to lose all that stuff.

I wouldn't count on it. Back up your stuff as Spinachcat suggested.

Quote from: Melan;1059492It seems a lot of people are migrating to MeWe, a platform of which I know nothing (interestingly, it does not even have a Wikipedia page), but which is at least making the right kind of noises about privacy and free speech.

I could live with that.

MeWe doesn't have a Wikipedia page because it was deleted last year. It was determined to be a blatant PR piece.

S'mon · October 09, 2018, 10:15:23 AM

Quote from: Apparition;1059502I wouldn't count on it. Back up your stuff as Spinachcat suggested.

Not much point saving to my laptop, they break regularly. I can still find most of my old Geocities pages from the mid '90s* archived online so I would hope if there's a general termination of Blogger someone would recreate a cached version. Probably the biggest risk is individual blog deletion, for copyright or nipples or both.

Hmm, given my limited tech prowess, maybe copying a few critical posts to a cloud storage site might be the best bet.

*God, my games were (mostly) crap then! It was certainly a Dark Age for gaming.

RPGPundit · October 18, 2018, 08:04:47 AM

I've moved into Minds.com.

Here's a link to my account. If you add me there, check out the groups I'm on; there's a good Minds Roleplaying group, and OSR minds group there.

R.I.P. Google Plus

Anon Adderlan

Apparition

S'mon

RPGPundit