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by hboon 5459 days ago
He wants a circle that he doesn't have to maintain, which the interested audience "subscribe" to. He can then post Minecraft updates to this. He wouldn't know who they are (even if they add him to a circle, he wouldn't know if they are interested in Minecraft and that would be a lot of work for a big circle) to add them himself.

I want this too, not necessarily as proposed, but at least the use case supported, somehow.
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sibsibsib 5459 days ago
That's how the 'following' circle works. Notch makes a 'public' post, and everyone who has him in their following circle will receive the update.
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hboon 5459 days ago
No, Notch posts frequently about Minecraft. So everyone who follows him but don't care about Minecraft will get those posts. That's the problem. The only solution now is for him to not post Minecraft related material to Public, but to a particular circle, say "Minecraft" which, due to how Circles work now, he has to bear 100% of the effort to maintain the people in it, which is not feasible (as I described above).
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