I know people love to complain about Google's track record of shutting things down, but for me this is the one that made me say "I'll never use anything new from Google for anything important. Never. Anything." The pushed this thing SO hard for a couple of years, and now it's just gone. I feel like I'd be a fool to use anything more than search and Gmail at this point. I've heard good things about GCP but there's no way anyone will convince me that'll be around in 5 years (though if it is I might be convinced). All those chat/video apps, no way I'm even going to bother with checking them out. And so on. Google+ seemed like THE most important thing at Google, tied into everything, even required for a while, and it's gone now, or maybe rebranded into that thing they just announced earlier this week?

TechCrunch has a nice Google+ timeline: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/looking-back-at-google/

Another Google project left to die, I give Stadia until 2021 before it's part of the abandoned google graveyard.

It seems like people have forgotten the point of Google+. If I recall correctly... there were too many disparate login systems which resulted in a fractured identity. There were various legal and technical reasons which they could not associate users amongst their different properties.

Then they sent out advertisements to get everyone on G+. And a huge number of people clicked, without even understand what they were creating. Then all of the accounts were merged into one, that had different policies.

And so, there was no longer a profit motivation for the product.

Anyone know why the page loads fully, including article text, then the text diss appears and it says there’s an error?

Sometimes I hate the modern web.

Was Google+ the largest social network that didn't have advertising? In the right hands, Google+ could've been a strong ad-free alternative to Facebook/Instagram and Twitter.

Google+ was pretty fantastic. The only downside was losing the + operator in Google search. Then, I also thought Google Wave was a good idea.