I've resumed the flat-earth debate in a reshare (same Community) so that DW can't delete my comments, because this kind of willful illogic really ticks me off: https://plus.google.com/+WoozleHypertwin/posts/BRBrSHNsnA5

@woozle Modern day flat-Earth cultists are a strange phenomenon to me...I used to think it was some kind of elaborate joke or troll that gained a life of its own. Now I'm not sure what to think.

what's Google Plus actually like? never used it for anything past its initial months, whence I got my account suspended for using a pseudonym

@kara_dreamer

They eventually dropped the "real name" requirement after the data revealed what we'd been telling them all along, i.e. that it doesn't promote civility.

Most of my gripes about G+ fall into two categories: (1) Google is evil, and (2) Google is uninterested in user needs (though they keep claiming they are).

All that said, it's the first place I ever found enough of an audience to regularly get some interesting discussions going.

(I could go on, but I'm out of characters.)

@woozle at least it looks less awful than Facebook, just in terms of appearance...Facebook has always looked awful

@kara_dreamer Yeah, it is generally much better than FB, and not just in terms of layout.

That said, they keep "updating" the layout in ways that generally make it worse, but it's still way ahead.

Also, the editor supports markup for bold and italic.

@woozle Facebook doesn't?! plain text only? ("plain" isn't quite the word though for a site as cluttered and obtrusive as FB)