I seriously hate the G+ mobile app.

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Rob Gordon said…
You should talk to Robert N. Lee - he is a huge fan.
Una Schade said…
It does lack something...
Colin Fosgate said…
It IS far more. Cumbersome than the full site.
Robert N. Lee said…
Google+ is generally pretty half-assed, desktop and mobile. Not my favorite Google thing ever, and if Facebook weren't trying to drive the Internet off the Internet and replace it entirely with Facebook, I'd probably be back over there by now.
Alex Shaw said…
I don't like facebook but I must admit that they have a good mobile app now
Alex Shaw said…
I think the G+ app is much better since the last release apart from the notification bug which I am sure they will sort out soon
Alex Shaw said…
It is only a few months old and getting better each week
Thomas Morffew said…
Sestra aka Mae your mom bought a tablet to play g+ games?

°_°
Alex Shaw said…
Brandon Hartung mentioning people has got faster on android now. The list is also smarter it now shows people commenting in the current post at the top of the list
Colin Fosgate said…
Alex Shaw, that's good to know, I didn't mention people, because it was too slow. Now it works! Look at that.
Jason ON said…
A lot of times I use the App when powering up, or being on, the computer just isn't feasible and while there are some good things about the app, like being able to + a name and Instant Upload (which never seems to work instantly for me), the annoying things are just too annoying to ignore.

My biggest complaint -- a complaint I've sent feedback on about 25 times and that I've told to Punit Soni in one of his own threads (where he did ask) -- is the app is always resetting the Stream back to the beginning or newest post.

So, for example, if I'm reading along and finally find a post I need to spend some more time on, tap it and open the post up, read/comment and then use the [back] button to return to the stream I'm automatically shot back to the newest post, thus losing my place where I was reading it.

This also happens when:
1- launching the app. That is when initially launch the app I start reading whatever post is showing then the Stream "updates" and I'm shot to the most recent post with no indication of where the post I was reading is anymore. It could be 5 posts down or 45 posts down. So, gods forbid it was interesting or there was a link attached I wanted to read for more information.

2- When opening a Youtube video, watch it and use the [back] button to get back to the G+ app and I'm automatically sent to the most recent post.

3- This also applies to any links in posts. Open the link, read and then go back and I'm sent to the most recent post.

4- If I open a post by tapping on it to make it stationary while I open a link or a YT video or just spend time reading it since it's a longer post, and I hit the [back] button to go back to the stream I'm (again) sent back to the newest post.

This is very very annoying for a number of reasons. i've been through the settings and can't find anything that allows me to halt, pause or mark my place in the stream so I have to conclude that the feature just isn't there.

Also, when adding the location to the post, the app never seems to be able to find the place I'm actually visiting. It can find everything within a 3 mile radius, but it can't find where I'm actually physically located. This applies whether GPS is on or off. However, if I search for the place the app can usually find it just fine. Sometimes it can't and I accept that, but never being able to find where I'm physically located? Really?

The other issues I've had were resolved, so no complaints there.

I would like to know why, if Picasaweb allows up to 15 minutes of video to be loaded, we can't load video to Picasaweb from the app or from mobile at all. Youtube is great and all, but every video doesn't need to upload to YT.

Oh well, I guess I'm FB from mobile and G+ from the desktop.
Punit Soni said…
Jason ON do u have this issue in the latest version of the app too?
Alex Shaw said…
Punit Soni I have the latest version and it happens to me, I think the most painful one is when the screen goes from portrait to landscape (when the phone is tilted) as this happens all the time and also resets to the newest post
Colin Fosgate said…
Alex Shaw, I've turned off the landscape feature because of just that annoyance.
Alex Shaw said…
Colin Fosgate is that just for G+ or the whole phone
Alex Shaw said…
That's a bit of a pain
Jason ON said…
Punit Soni, right now I'm on version 2.3.1.24969. Is that not the most recent version? I went to the Market yesterday to check for an update and it didn't show an update for G+.

I'll check again just to make sure nothing new has come out in the past 30 hours, or so.
Jason ON said…
Okay, just checked and looks like there is a newer version. downloading now. We'll see.
Jason ON said…
Punit Soni, it seems to be working much better after the update. It no longer changes locations while I read a link or watch a connected YT video.

So, thank you for that.

However, the app seems to be force-closing all the time now.
Robert N. Lee said…
It still takes so long to display photos I may as well find the nearest computer and bring up Google+ on it.

(Using any browser but Google's, naturally, since all of Google's online services were designed to blow up Chrome, apparently.)
Punit Soni said…
Anish Acharya Navin Kadaba on Jason ON issue... Jason when is the App FCing?
Jason ON said…
As far as I can tel, Punit Soni, I've noticed it FCing more during two actions:

1 - when I've been using it for a while and have reached the "loading more" at the bottom of the Stream a couple of times. I don't know if I'm just filling some sort of temporary cache, but it seems to FC when this occurs.

2 - I open the app and hit the Notifications icon. Go through my notifications one-by-one and usually somewhere in back and forth of it all the app force closes. I can recall at least once when I was commenting on one of my notifications, went back to the notifications list, opened the next one and the app force closed.

Thank you again for following up with these sorts of issues, Punit Soni and team! It means a lot to us that you're being proactive and interactive with users.

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