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Google+ was wildly successful in certain circles. Tabletop RPG design still hasn’t entirely recovered from its loss.

Google+ was successful from any real metric but it didn’t replace Facebook so it was axed.

hughesjj 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I definitely preferred it to Facebook, even before the feed became 100% inflammatory political stuff or ads and 0% my friends

plufz 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

By which metrics was Google+ successful? I don’t doubt you, I just never heard that before.

I can't say user metrics but Google Photos came out of Google+ and it is a massively successful product.

Hangouts (now Meet?) was also a product out of Google+ but considering GChat (the xmpp version) existed before, it was kind of a step backwards.

I think Google Local Guide also has some parts of Google+, not sure.

	▲	Fluorescence 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		IMHO Google Photos was also just brand/infra-churn because it replaced Picasa Web Albums.