I know it's a small thing, but the URL makes it feel quite ephemeral/impersonal.<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103299867207875326585" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10329986720787532658...</a><p>Compare to <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/</a><p>Anyway, I joined. Hoping sometime in the future google+ becomes useful for me. Last post from a friend was 3 months ago.
Maybe I'm missing something important here, but right now it looks like a long list of posts concerning the topics, uncurated and free for everyone ( who is part of the group) to post. Are popular posts put on top or something?
I didn't realize G+ had 'communities' now, so after joining this one I checked out the communities home page:<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities</a><p>There's at least one major design issue with it - the communities have pictures, but no names or descriptions (unless it's in the picture), and mousing over doesn't give an alt-text description either.<p>Am I missing something, or does G+ expect us to open every community in a new tab to see what it is?
Those communities are interesting. They have subcategories. It means they are like a forum.
If one day Google release an API we would be able to sync a community with a forum.<p>It would make a forum with superpower with entry point anywhere on the web (via the +1 button)
Just made a community for Hacker News users on Google+<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116532187260749346879" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11653218726074934687...</a>