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Skype?


that should be PayPal


Oops! Yes, it should!


The "only" think Reddit has is an engine to sustainably produce new communities as good as the original Reddit, at the cost of providing a pile of chaff I dislike that thousands of people enjoy?

I would love to have "only" what Reddit has.


Same thing with matter/antimatter, and "white flight" demographics. Also, the more energy-efficient we make our technology, the more energy we will use in total.

Any tension not in a buffered solution will collapse to dominance by one-side.

This one, though: > Why can’t everyone just agree to a family-friendly, 40-hour workweek?

You can choose to opt-out of the rat race, and still be happy.

Some other too. Yes, to a first approximation, there are no easy problems (or free lunches), so only attack problems you'd love to solve.


There is a competitor... The problem is, it's not enough to provide "you" the option. Many people have to agree to accept it together...


There is no viable competitor. Google+ is such a clusterfuck, especially with how they handled Google Apps emails.


What's the problem with Google Apps emails?


For a long time you simply couldn't sign up for Google+ with a Google Apps email. This means that now I have a Google+ account attached to a rarely-used gmail address I had lying around, instead of my primary email address that anyone who knows me would use to try to find me. And if I want to create a Google+ account with my primary email, that will leave me with two distinct Google+ accounts and with no way to migrate all my contacts from my first account over to the second.

Oh, and because Google couldn't resist making it even worse, some Google properties supported Google Apps emails and some didn't, which meant I actually had 3 Google accounts, two of which used the same email. When Google "fixed" that, they forced me to rename one of those accounts, except their data migrator tool is completely broken. So now I have 3 Google accounts, one of which is a throwaway gmail account that contains most of my data but on an email address I never use, one is my primary email which is a Google Apps account and contains almost no data, and the third is a garbage mangled form of my Google Apps email (it's myemail+google@mydomain) which contains all the data that used to be on my Google Apps email but which turned out to be associated with the shadow non-Google-Apps account instead.

It's a clusterfuck and I have no idea what to do about it.


It's a clusterfuck and I have no idea what to do about it.

Have you tried submitting feedback using the gear icon?

According to this: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-is-now-a..., they're working on a migration tool which will let you transparently move from your gmail account to your domain account. Google Voice has a tool and it worked fine (along with the general data export tool for moving my contacts).


I have a friend who has a very similar story to yours.


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