Google+

About

Google+ (aka G+^A) was a social network created by Google. It was discontinued on 2019-04-02, despite having nearly 200 million users overall and a solid core usership.

Pages

/features: what you could do with G+
/username: a chronic issue

Links

Communities in Exile

Plexodus Wiki
Google+ project at ArchiveTeam
Pluspora: a Diaspora* instance specifically for G+ refugees

Official

home page
- API guide
- Developers' Blog
- Album Archive: this seems to be all images posted before a certain date; not sure what happens to the ones after that, or what the date is
  - 2016-08-05 Introducing the Album Archive

Reference

databases / tools

These need to be sorted into "things about what G+ was" and "things about using Takeout data".

~~All my +: post database, searchable by date and other things~~ content gone as of 2020-02-10
bash script on Pastebin: Extract a Google+ streams archive post to stdout, as markdown.
CircleCount: has considerable historical data, including follower counts by date
- example: http://www.circlecount.com/p/+user ID?period=all&type=followers
Google+ Suomi
- format: http://www.googleplussuomi.com/timelinetest.php?googleid=user ID
~~Google+ Statistics~~ site now seems to be Twitter stats only (2013-12-21)
GPlusData: search users by employer, interests, other keywords
- Information seems to be limited to the most popular users only.
Plexodus Tools on GitHub: a collection of tools to process G+-related data in Google Takeout
Plexodus Wiki: "for those of us who’ve cultivated a significant personal social network on Google+ to carry that forward to some new platform(s)."
PlusClout: calculates each user's clout overall and in several categories
- format: http://www.plusclout.com/user ID
- 2013-12-21 Could not connect to server. Has this site been discontinued?
- 2014-06-20 Home page shows "you do not have permission to access / on this server". so probably.
Recommended Users: unofficial Google+ Recommended Users lists
~~Topsy~~ doesn't seem to do G+ anymore