Google shutting down consumer version of Google+

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243 ?

Google+ used to be the best social network I've ever seen and the only one I've ever got addicted to (for about a year). Sadly it has grown over-complicated with time.

How do I download all the conversations I've participated in? I've commented a lot and people I've talked to there used to give very interesting answers occasionally and I'd like to recover these. I would also like to delete some of my comments before the whole thing gets archived as I were too young and stupid during the days and wrote some politically nonsensical things I wouldn't write (and wouldn't agree with) today, under my real name.

BTW when are they going to close it? How much time is left?

Easy to shut down a service no one used...

I remember Linus as being a fairly prolific Google+ user. https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds

But the fact that it's been months since he posted is a point.