Actually, to put it more into context... You (sorry to pick on you) just posted:
> CouchDB and the Heartbleed SSL/TLS Vulnerability: > https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/couchdb_and_the_heartbleed_ssl > CouchDB and the Heartbleed SSL/TLS Vulnerability : CouchDB > blogs.apache.org Notice how the second title is provided by Google+. So I don't understand why you're duplicating the title in the description. Now we have it twice. Looks silly. You also include a raw URL, which looks ugly. You can share URLs as links and they are hidden. :) Compare to the last thing I posted: > New blog post! > The Little Things(1): Do Not Delete : CouchDB > blogs.apache.org Or: > Roll up, roll up. Read all about it! > CouchDB Weekly News, April 3 : CouchDB > blogs.apache.org Or: > New post by +Andreas Wenk > On The CouchDB Community : CouchDB > blogs.apache.org These are just the ones you picked out. I think if you include the additional text there, they don't look so bad at all. Note also: there are plenty of posts we have where we're pulling quotes, and so on. Such as: > "CouchDB has hit the big time[...] NoSQL as a product category is about to be > tested." http://buff.ly/1gtxzEd > IBM & Cloudant: Chapter One of NoSQL - The Orchestrate Blog > orchestrate.io On 8 April 2014 13:59, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Recently shared blog posts on G+ starts and ends with the next words: > >> New blog post! >> Roll up, roll up. Read all about it! >> Roll up, roll up. Read all about it. Get your copy of the CouchDB Weekly >> News, March 2 >> New post by +Andreas Wenk! >> Woo hoo! See you there! > > https://plus.google.com/u/0/109226482722655790973/posts > > These reminds me old good 90x with NEW! HOT! links, blinking colorful > texts, marquee magic and a lot of animation on the page. Suddenly, > these good old times had gone away, so could we please provide some > more information about shared items? Technically, this should be first > paragraph from shared post which included the main idea of all the > text, but there is a lot of space for improvisation to highlight the > idea. > > I understand reasons about having some short description there: it's > easy to copy-paste news between twitter / reddit / g+ and others > without care about text size limitation, but we should respect > community rules: what's good for twitter, may be not for g+ and fb and > if we have a chance to provide more text, the interesting intro to our > news that would be more attractive for newcomers and respectful for > the people who don't want waste their time on things in the web with > crying titles. > > In our information age it's very easy to produce and share > information. To manage this huge stream of information everyone sets > own inner filter to ignore all the trash and catch up only interesting > bits. Suddenly, our current news stream on g+ is a trash with no > useful bits. It could be better, it could be interesting. > > When you're walking at night and looking on the sky you see thousands > stars there. If the new one will raise there you would never notice > that. You'll probably wouldn't spend more than 5 minutes looking on > them. However, if only you had an Augment Reality device which would > show a short description for every star in the focus and highlight the > new ones, I bet sky-watching process would be more interesting for you > and will lasts not a single hour. > > Let's make our posts on communities better to attract [more] people > and raise the discussion around. Let's annotate our stars. > > Thanks. > > -- > ,,,^..^,,, -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
