For months (since the integration of Hangouts and GTalk), it's been really hard to find a hangout that's not Me, +Audrey Lee and +Dorian Trent.
Notifications that people are hanging out quit showing up in our streams. I suspect that they quit showing up, because people quit inviting people to Hangouts the Old Fashioned Way – by Circle.
Inviting our Hangouts and/or My Drunk Hangouts circles initially sucked everyone in that circle (HUNDREDS of people) into a friggin text chat on our phones which is a front-runner for "most annoying thing ever" – especially when it's 2am, and you keep getting pinged every time someone asks "Hey, I'm sleeping! What's up!"
…so we quit inviting by circle, and I imagine most everyone else did, too – which eliminated the posts that used to show up, visible to those circles.
Maybe – just MAYBE +Jaana Nyström's tips will help us get back into the swing of things? I doubt it. I suspect strongly that there just plain aren't as many people hanging out every night as was the case back when tools like Hangout Canopy worked to find hangouts, and when you could invite people by circle, and not have them end up in a text chat – which is a 'feature' that I think is 'fixed' now, but the damage is done.
Many nights, we'd have a full room basically every night. I can't remember when the last time that happened. Sometime last spring, I think.
I miss those days. A lot.
Originally shared by +Jaana Nyström
Find ongoing Hangouts on Google+
These are either public or from your circles / external circles.
Create a search on Google+ for , select "Hangouts" option under the "More" menu and change from "Best of" to "Most recent".
Here is the direct link for the search:
https://plus.google.com/s/%23hangoutpost/hangouts
Remember to change the option to "Most recent" like in the image:
More about Google+ search:
http://googleplushelper.blogspot.fi/2012/11/the-best-feature-of-google-search.html
