I am writing some feedback hoping that some googler will read this and improve something..
* The search features suggests a lot of rubbish even before i started searching
* the whole interface is still slow
* When I click on "communities" on the left panel, i get redirected to the community suggestion page, while I expected to see the communities of which i am part. Also, the suggestion are completely messed up.
* when i click on "communities" and am brought to the suggestion page, clicking on the "member" link (that i guess, should show me the communities i am part of) does nothing at all.
* it is in general very very hard to understand what post comes from where, and this makes it very hard to use google plus more than the usual "oh crap i opened it again, how do i close it?"
* Opon a click to write a post, an overlay with a popup window is opened instear of just letting me write. The popup opening is slow as the other stuff.
* did i mention the whole thing is slow ?
* The default option for sharing is "Public" (oh hell no)
* Otherwise you can "add to a collection" (and wtf is a collection in google plus terms now?)
* in order to select a community or a circle (circles should be the hot stuff of Google+, you have to make two more steps ("See more", scroll).
Add to collection means "add to collection". Practical example: I share my uncles interest in clean energy solutions but not his taste in music. Unlike twitter, on g+ I can easily follow his collection about clean energy without seing everything he posts.
I thought for sure you were joking - but no. That is actual functionality. A complete pointless and slow animation that makes posting a quick thought take longer than it should was actually considered a good UI/UX by the G+ team...
When G+ originally came out I wanted to like it because the design itself wasn't too bad and I liked the concept of Circles (something other social sites lacked at the time, or were clunky to use). But everything else about G+ was just...bad. Including actually trying to use Circles.
They gave it a facelift but it looks like everything under the hood is still bad...