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Someone sent me an invitation to Google+ last Friday, which didn't work after repeated tries. Yesterday two other people sent me invitations, which arrived tonight (so a one-day delay). This time it worked.
First I had to get a newer version of Firefox. I'd been meaning to move from 3.0 to 3.6 but an extension I like wasn't going to be supported, it said. Turns out they built it into the baseline, so all is fine there. (Rendering in 3.6 looks...different. Can't pinpoint it.) Google and Mozilla are both strongly pushing me to move to Firefox 4, but I remember hearing rumblings of problems there, including problems using LJ. If you're using FF4, please comment about any diminished usability you've encountered. For critical functionality -- operating systems, cars, browsers, etc -- I am not an early adopter.
So ok, I have a G+ account. If you're there and care to let me know you exist, please do. If you've figured out useful patterns, please share that. One I figured out right away (so tell me if there's a reason this is wrong): since you can share a post with any number of circles, stay away from any notions of nested circles or hierarchical circles: given the existence of acquaintances, friends, and best-buddies, put somebody in exactly one of those. Of course, there may be orthogonal circles too; that's different. (E.g. I don't currently see the need to have an SCA circle, but if I did it would include some friends, some best-buddies, and some people who aren't in any other circle.)
Yes, I acknowledge the irony of posting on LJ to discuss G+ best practices. :-)
Edited to add: FF 3.6 annoyingly changed how new tabs are placed. New tabs should go to the far right, not immediately after the current tab, thank you very much. This page has some rather colorful language, but it did tell me how to fix it. (I assume I will have to do that with FF4 and 5, too.)
First I had to get a newer version of Firefox. I'd been meaning to move from 3.0 to 3.6 but an extension I like wasn't going to be supported, it said. Turns out they built it into the baseline, so all is fine there. (Rendering in 3.6 looks...different. Can't pinpoint it.) Google and Mozilla are both strongly pushing me to move to Firefox 4, but I remember hearing rumblings of problems there, including problems using LJ. If you're using FF4, please comment about any diminished usability you've encountered. For critical functionality -- operating systems, cars, browsers, etc -- I am not an early adopter.
So ok, I have a G+ account. If you're there and care to let me know you exist, please do. If you've figured out useful patterns, please share that. One I figured out right away (so tell me if there's a reason this is wrong): since you can share a post with any number of circles, stay away from any notions of nested circles or hierarchical circles: given the existence of acquaintances, friends, and best-buddies, put somebody in exactly one of those. Of course, there may be orthogonal circles too; that's different. (E.g. I don't currently see the need to have an SCA circle, but if I did it would include some friends, some best-buddies, and some people who aren't in any other circle.)
Yes, I acknowledge the irony of posting on LJ to discuss G+ best practices. :-)
Edited to add: FF 3.6 annoyingly changed how new tabs are placed. New tabs should go to the far right, not immediately after the current tab, thank you very much. This page has some rather colorful language, but it did tell me how to fix it. (I assume I will have to do that with FF4 and 5, too.)
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+ Posts with comments inline all on the same page, with ability to collapse or ignore.
- Posts all on the same page means you can't throw something into a browser tab for later.
? Need to check: can I "pin" a post to keep it in a well-known place so I can more easily return to it?
+ Notifications implementation seems reasonable so far.
+ It's really easy to know what circles somebody is in.
- Big minus: no way to annotate people with notes about who they are (e.g. Bob Smith = Fred the Barbarian in the SCA = xyzzy on LJ). I don't know how I'm going to keep track of who all these people are.
+ The "read stuff from people you haven't added but who added you" view seems convenient.
- The editing interface is not so great for longer entries and mangled the formatting when I pasted text in from an external editor.
- I would like more control over font sizes.
? Use of screen real-estate could be better.
? Interface for circle management is kind of cutesy.
- There are some weird synchronization problems, possibly having to do with caching; things are showing up out of order and maybe some things not at all.
+ Email notifications.
? Haven't investigated how finely you can manage email notifications (e.g. always tell me when so-and-so comments, but don't tell me every time that-guy does).