[saurik]

Yeah: they essentially deleted the early Android community and all of the knowledge and history that was built up around it, because all of those people were organized on Google+. And I think it is also important to note that shutting down that particular service felt like a particularly frustrating insult given how they had essentially rammed it down everyone's throats and forced it to get integrated into every single Google product in confusing and sometimes horrifying ways... and then it failed anyway.

[dredmorbius]

There were over 8 million Google+ Communities formed. Roughly 10,000 of those had > 10k members, based on my own analysis of a data extract of these:

<https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Migrating_Google%...>

The absolute obliteration of online groups was inexcusable, most especially as there were not provisions made for exporting or supporting contact, and in fact active obstruction of attempts to the same.