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0 pointszmmmmm7y ago0 comments

Yep, people keep rewriting the history, but I remember it exactly: there was enormous enthusiasm and hype around G+. Developers, tech enthusiasts everywhere were "queuing around the block" to get on board with it and to stick it to Facebook. Then Google did two things:

- announced no API access - real names policy debacle

Between those two things they completely destroyed all good will and within months it was essentially dead. I actually think it was a larger turning point that made developers significantly more cynical about Google overall.

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Twirrim7y ago

They could have survived the real names policy debate, if the API had been there. But that was one hell of a double-whammy.

Macha7y ago

I especially found it interesting how supporters portrayed it as an issue that people would get over, but in the end G+ never took off and YouTube users nearly revolted over it and they also found it did nothing to improve discourse on YouTube even when many users relented.

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0 pointszmmmmm7y ago0 comments

- announced no API access - real names policy debacle

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Twirrim7y ago

They could have survived the real names policy debate, if the API had been there. But that was one hell of a double-whammy.

Macha7y ago

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