The downfall of reddit doesn’t suddenly turn Google+ into a good product.
They would have had to make severe changes for Google+ to be competitive with Twitter and Threads. It was terrible.
It was like the dictionary definition of designed by committee.
Xoogler here, I was at the TGIF where they launched G+ (at that time “emerald sea”) internally.
They literally showed the SNL Taco Town sketch to us as part of their prezo like it was a good thing.
Some sites just are before their time. “Broadcast.com” was a website in 1995 dedicated to streaming shows and movies. In 1999 it was sold to Yahoo! for $5.7 billion. It failed and is considered one of the worst purchases in tech history (this was before Twitter). In 2007, Netflix would launch its TV show and movie streaming services and grow to be worth $197 billion.
Classic Yahoo!. Just like their one billion Tumblr purchase later on. They had no idea what to do with it until they sold it for peanuts years after.
Considering that it’s Google, they might have canceled it right when it took off.
I was one of the few people who actually used google+. It really wasn’t that bad honestly.
Considering what Google did to the jabber protocol, we can all be glad they gave up, IMO.
