Introducing the new Google+
Google seem to keep making worse the thing that matters most to me.  What I want is to conveniently read.  I want to see content, from a variety of sources.  I want density.  I want to catch up and be aware.<p>It was like that in the earlier days.  Every update kept reducing the amount of visible content, and severe reductions in density.  Here is a screenshot of my screen - <a href="http://i.imgur.com/fM2WIVf.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/fM2WIVf.png</a>  (1920x1200) - almost two million pixels.  There are a total of 7 (yes seven) sentences of article and 5 sentences of comments.  I have to click and/or scroll to see anything more.  (This is their densest layout - the single column version has a total of 4 sentences.)<p>With Reader they had a community of people who read a lot, and an interface design that worked well for doing that.  They took that away.  By not having access via an open standard like RSS for G+ streams, they don't even allow alternative interfaces that can address their problems.<p>I can only conclude that the people who persevere with G+ do so despite it, not because of it.  They must also be very patient and do a heck of a lot of scrolling.