Its been only a couple of days since Google Plus launched and there are problems already with it. Well, one can argue that these are bugs and are natural. I agree, and wish that they’re only “temporary”. For a super star product like Google Plus, it doesn’t look nice anyways.
1. Circles cannot be sorted in stream view.
The circles feature (much similar to how it was predicted earlier) lets you create groups within your friends list. So you have your boss in one circle, your pub friends in another so that your updates to them don’t get to the boss. Makes sense that way right ? Wish Facebook had this option to group different friends within itself. But the problem is that one cannot sort Google Plus’ circles in stream view. That it they appear in alphabetical view and cannot be rearranged or hidden or tweaked. So if you had an awkward name (that you didn’t want to show your colleague), then you’re stuck. Hope they fix it soon.
2. Removing someone from a circle will not remove their posts.
Ouch! So you find this annoying internet marketer in the stream, who befriended you and you want to remove him from your network. So you remove him from your circle and what happens ? All his annoying updates will still remain in your circle. Huh ?
3. No nested comments available in stream.
No big deal, you say, because not even Facebook has it. Well, one may argue that way but if you look at the stream you will understand how important nested comments are. Because the stream is very complex and unlike facebook.
4. Blocking a person will not remove your content from his stream.
You know how it works in facebook, right ? You block a person and you can block everything related to you being appearing for him, without leaving a trace. In Google Plus, everything you shared with the person still remains after blocking and ONLY future updates will be blocked. Sigh!
5. Hangouts won’t work on IE9 without compatibility view.
Guess that is self explanatory. Is it not ? I’m not an IE fan anyways, so it doesn’t matter much.
6. Posts don’t update in Real Time.
I assume this is a teething issue. When everything else works like a charm on Google Plus, the posts don’t update in real time and is often delayed by couple of minutes to appear. Little things Google – please focus.
Other Miscellaneous Google Plus Issues reported on the web
1 – Google Plus is not available for google apps users – Pranav
2- Google executive is say everything is break at scale. Is why Google Plus is hosted on Amazon EC2! – Develops_Borat
Many of these are little bugs that Google Engineers are already working on and by the time the product is out for all, it would’ve been sorted. Hope it doesn’t end up as Google Buzz.
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