Never miss another great Community post

Great conversations make for vibrant Communities, and there’s no better conversation starter than an interesting post. But with all the activity lively Communities have, even the most compelling posts can slide out of view before you have a chance to see them. To make sure you never miss out on what’s up, we’re changing the way Community posts are displayed to show you the good stuff first.

Starting today, whenever you visit a Community, you’ll see the most high quality, relevant posts up top, rather than the just the most recent ones. Of course, if you’d like to switch back to chronological view, it’s easy to do so from the Community Settings / Preferences menu.

We’ll be rolling this out gradually, so please visit your favorite Community and let us know what you think!

Google+ Web Updates Oct 4
Following our series of news about Google+ for Work, new G+ management tools, and more over the past few weeks, we’re returning to addressing common points of feedback & requests with a few Google+ Web updates:

* Turn animated comments (as seen on all streams) on and off.
* View poll results from the post menu (even if you haven’t voted yet)

As always, please keep sending us your ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item.
Thanks~

Google+ for Work
Big news. Starting today Google+ joins Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar and more as a core Apps for Work service. That means Google+ will now be included in existing Google Apps agreements for most customers. For more information, check out the official announcement: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2016/09/googleplus-core-service.html

G+ iOS Update 6.0.0
Our ninth Google+ iOS app update of the year is rolling out today with faster start-up times and multiple features to edit and customize your Google+ profile. John’s post has further details:

G+ Web Update Sept 9
We’re rolling out two new features on the Google+ Web app today. First, when joining a Community on the recommended communities page, we’ll reveal a number of related additional suggestions.

Second, search autocomplete suggestions are now significantly faster and include personalized recommendations like collections you own, communities you’ve joined, and more relevant results specifically for you. Of course, you can still access full search results in addition to these autocomplete shortcuts which are intended to get you to what you’re looking for faster.

As always, please keep sending us your ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item.
Thanks~

Chrome Web Browser Notifications
Today we’re rolling out the ability to get Google+ notifications in the Chrome Web browser. In order to enable this feature, you’ll have to turn on the Google+ Web notifications setting and give your Web browser permission to send you notifications from plus.google.com (illustrated in the image).

You don’t have to be on plus.google.com to get these notifications. General Chrome browser notification settings can be managed under Content Settings in Chrome.

As always, please send us any ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item to ensure we see them.

Thanks~

Chrome Web Browser Notifications
Today we’re rolling out the ability to get Google+ notifications in the Chrome Web browser. In order to enable this feature, you’ll have to turn on the Google+ Web notifications setting and give your Web browser permission to send you notifications from plus.google.com (illustrated in the image).

You don’t have to be on plus.google.com to get these notifications. General Chrome browser notification settings can be managed under Content Settings in Chrome.

As always, please send us any ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item to ensure we see them.

Thanks~

Google+ Users Of The Week: Google+ Team
Big Thanks for the hard work, for constantly improving Google+ and for bringing the new Google+ to more people, Carter Gibson, Sophie Bonnet , Leanne Osborne , Madeleine DeRome, Sooraj Wadhwa, Pamela Abi Najem, Carolina Liu, Daniel Raynaud, Leo Deegan, Danielle Buckley, Luke Wroblewski, Wahbeh Qardaji, Frank Rodriguez, Swapneel Kshetramade, Jared Kamel, Jeff Schiller & the entire Google+ Team!     

How-To (New) Google+ -> goo.gl/62ZYaC
(Image from Sophie Bonnet)

Circle Streams Setting
For those of you looking for quicker access to your Circle Streams in the new Google+ Web experience… look no further. We have a setting on iOS, Android, and the Web for Circle Stream users that adds a quick filter to your home stream. Just go to Settings > Advanced Settings and turn on “Enable circle streams in navigation.”

As always, please send us any ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item to ensure we see them.

Thanks~

New Notifications Center
We’re starting to roll out a new notifications center on the Google+ Web experience. Within it you can mark all notifications as read, quickly scan by notification type (comments, +1s, reshares), and filter all your notifications by All, Unread, and Other Updates. These filters are also available today on the Google+ iOS app.

This new Notifications Center our first version, with lots of updates to come. As such, please send us any ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item to ensure we see them.

Thanks~