crosspost to Google+

[mellowtigger]

Title:
crosspost to Google+

Area:
crossposting

Summary:
When I post on Dreamwidth, I want a blurb added to my feed in Google+.

Description:
When I post on Dreamwidth, I want a blurb added to my feed in Google+. Not the whole post, just a few things (similar to how Livejournal crossposts to Facegook):
1) Google+ title= "Dreamwidth: (post title)"
2) Google+ image= (post icon, if any)
3) Google+ text= (first 30 words from the post) and (link to Dreamwidth post)

Poll #7726 crosspost to Google+

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 65

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Should be implemented as-is.
20 (30.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (10.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
12 (18.5%)

(I have no opinion)
24 (36.9%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.1%)

Comments

[mellowtigger]

Granted, the poll has been open only a short time, but I'm surprised by the leading negative response. It would be nice to have more people here on Dreamwidth, but it seems that the only people who know of this site are current Livejournal users. Wouldn't "*.dreamwidth.org" posts showing up on Google+ provide useful advertising for the blog hosting available here? If there were more of it, might it eventually convince a few people to start blogs here rather than elsewhere?

Near as I can tell so far (there is a lot of time ahead for it to change), Google+ users are more thoughtful and involved than the Facebook or Twitter crowds. They actually discuss posts rather than just click a button to "Like" them. This population might actually notice a new domain name crossing their view repeatedly.

[matgb]

You sometimes get a kneejerk no response from people that don't use a different platform for various reasons, and want no contact witht hat platform, at the moment, G+ is getting a bad rep due to the name policies and similar. Poll votes aren't the decider, they just act as a guide, especially for stuff that implementing doesn't affect people that don't use a feature (something that changes default site behaviour is different to a complete opt in extra feature, etc).

We've actually had some people come to DW direct from G+ over the name issue, and I agree that it'd be nice to be rcruiting people from other sources.

I really want to be able to ping G+ with my updates directly, and ideally choose what's displayed over there, sometimes a whole post, sometimes an exerpt, etc. So I strongly want this, when the APIs make it possible, currently, they haven't released APIs, it doesn't even implement with some other G services, they plan a strong Blogger integration, but I loath Blogger with a fiery passion so that's no good (although crossposting to Blogger would work if they get that setup, and that might be easier).

[jumpuphigh]

You sometimes get a kneejerk no response from people that don't use a different platform for various reasons, and want no contact witht hat platform, at the moment, G+ is getting a bad rep due to the name policies and similar.

It's true. I often notice that kneejerk response for myself when reading through suggestions (which is one of the reasons why I often read comments prior to voting) and Google has firmly set itself up on my "evil companies" list by this point. But, while I won't use G+, I think that others should be able to interact with it as they please.