Recently I\u2019ve had a late-night routine where I grab the Android tab, check email, check twit\u00adter, then catch up on Google+. I\u2019ve found a few inter\u00adest\u00ading people there to fol\u00adlow and enjoyed the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions and (some\u00adtimes) eru\u00addite com\u00adments. Then I made a mis\u00adtake \u2014 I updated to the latest Google+ app.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unread\u00adable. The mix\u00adture of white text on pale back\u00adgrounds, and the caco\u00adphony of jumbled bits of cropped pho\u00adtos in gar\u00adish col\u00adours gives me a head\u00adache. I can\u00ad\u2019t find any way to get rid of the images, or any way to turn back the UI<\/span> to the old one (not per\u00adfect, but at least I could scan for inter\u00adest\u00ading art\u00adicles). I\u2019m told lots of people love the UI<\/span>; I guess they must have some artist\u00adic sens\u00adib\u00adil\u00adity that I lack. Or bet\u00adter eye\u00adsight, able to scan past the dis\u00adtrac\u00adtions to get to the text. Or maybe they are more inter\u00adested in the pho\u00adtos than the text any\u00adway, so for them it was the text that was the distraction.<\/p>\n Whatever the cause, I don\u2019t read Google+ any more. Which is a pity, because I enjoyed that late-night routine, found some inter\u00adest\u00ading art\u00adicles, learned some new things. <\/p>\n Maybe one day Google will learn to allow people more choice in the Google+ UI<\/span>? It should\u00adn\u2019t be that hard; I can well ima\u00adgine hav\u00ading dif\u00adfer\u00adent apps that can all access the same under\u00adly\u00ading data, and present it in dif\u00adfer\u00adent ways to the read\u00ader. And if they\u2019re try\u00ading to encour\u00adage lots of people to use G+, it seems odd to me to force one UI<\/span> on us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I\u2019ve had a late-night routine where I grab the Android tab, check email, check twit\u00adter, then catch up on Google+. I\u2019ve found a few inter\u00adest\u00ading people there to fol\u00adlow and enjoyed the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions and (some\u00adtimes) eru\u00addite com\u00adments. Then I made a mis\u00adtake \u2014 I updated to the latest Google+ app. It\u2019s unread\u00adable. The mix\u00adture \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cRoutines and Interfaces\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}