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I know it's a small thing, but the URL makes it feel quite ephemeral/impersonal.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10329986720787532658...

Compare to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

Anyway, I joined. Hoping sometime in the future google+ becomes useful for me. Last post from a friend was 3 months ago.

I don't know why Google+ doesn't have 'vanity' URLs yet. It's not like it is that hard to do, especially if you own the servers.

I know they are 'coming' and some people supposedly have them. But would it not make sense for their own properties to have them?

> But would it not make sense for their own properties to have them?

http://google.com/+youtube

http://google.com/+android

http://google.com/+motorola

How about http://gplus.to/html5plus

Does this make you feel any better?

http://goo.gl/QhrXs

hm, just a shorturl. but the readability is as bad as the other one.

how about http://gplus.to/html5plus

if you start a search in google+ and press ht..it will automagically autocomplete to the HTML5 community page, if thats not too hard for you ;), if your friends posts about whatever is valuable to you so be it but I see more value in a community filled with like-minded individuals, to each his own! Reddit has no faces and real names and we all know how ugly anonymous posting can become, youtube now looks like google+ with faces and real names. Progress.

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?

That was also my reaction. Google thinks emulating the Yahoo finance board format is a good idea? Srsly?

So far I've found that the best communities are the ones that have very good categories on the left. Being able to separate your posts like that is great.

For example, check out "3D Printing" in "Makers, hackers, artists & engineers" https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11284500688414839186...

Agreed. I think Google has enough interaction data (between +1's, comments, and shares) to know what the top posts in any community are. They need to slap the volume control slider that they use on other parts of the site onto the community pages to make it easy to view the top 10, 50, or ... recent posts. Similarly, it would be nice if they allowed the cream of the crop posts from the communities to bleed through to the main page. Discoverability of communities needs a lot of work to, but that's another comment. :)

It's the first day.

I didn't realize G+ had 'communities' now, so after joining this one I checked out the communities home page:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities

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.

Am I missing something, or does G+ expect us to open every community in a new tab to see what it is?

First? I don't think so.

Yup, first, I've checked when I created it, also, the biggest, we're 1500 members strong at the moment

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.

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+

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11653218726074934687...

Next step a Reddit community for the Hacker News Google+ users!

This community platform has a lot of potential, just need Google+ users to be more active.

Finally, a reason to have an account. I'll frequent it, hope it takes off.

It will! Thanx for joining, we're already 1500 members strong, and we want to be the most visited community on Google+

The three people that use G+ will be so excited when they hear about this!

There's already 260+ people in the group, and about 20 quality posts :) Youre welcome to join as well

I know - it looks like a cool group and I will probably join it. I just decided to spill a little karma on my HN-standup routine.

1600 members! since the last comment I made, come join and make this the fastest growing group in google+

done.

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