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Comment by tzury | Hacker News Reader

I just realized that Linus' posts are the only reason I ever go to Google Plus.

The question nobody is asking, but actually should is: I wonder what other good G+ content you are missing?

G+ is largely misunderstood. It is a lousy tool for interaction with people connected to you purely socially. It's a very good way to find and interact with people connected to you by interest.

The really sad thing is that I have tried several times to search for content that I know exists on G+, but I can't find it, even when I knew the author. After the third time failing at this my usage of G+ dropped significantly. Of all of the things that you would think would work search would be at the top... :|

Right, if I could subscribe to a Circle with all of the kernel devs in it I would.

G+ is actually a great place to read long form messages and comments, but doesn't really have content discovery down.

This is exactly how I explain Google+ to folks. It's built for communities, not cliques.

For me it's not just G+, but also Facebook and Twitter. Only reason I ever visit those sites is indirectly through HN posts and similar.

I know this is completely off-topic, and I'll happily be downvoted for it, but why in the world does Google+ capture keyboard shortcuts that are already bound to other well known browser functions? (C-PgUp, C-PgDn, C-w, etc).

Linus : G+ :: notch : Java

That's unfair. Lots of infrastructural projects are done in java. E.g. my personal favorite: lucene (+ solr, elasticsearch).

Yeah, and I hear some communities (photographers?) have taken G+ as their home. It was tongue-in-cheek and purely from my (PC, desktop, Windows/console game developer) perspective.

I wonder if Linus ever reads Hacker News.....

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