Actually kind of a pain in the ass: G+ has been a somewhat decent forum for OSR gaming discussions. The alternatives now are:
- Discord. Fine for small groups, in fact one of the best chat/voice systems around. But the public gaming discords are like a game shop full of drunk gamers, with every asshole shouting at you in text AND voice. Fuck those guys.
- Reddit, which is still full of Nazis, and they've been redesigning the site to make it impossible to read or post text, just browse through meme images. Fuck those guys.
- Web forums, which are generally run by actual Nazis (rpg dot net) or screaming children, see Discord.
So I guess the conversation part is over, back to isolated gaming blogs, sometimes linking to each other.
As for Google, I mean, it's not like anyone expected privacy posting to G+. It's a fucking spyware program from the spyware company.
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As noted in Google Minus, G+ shutting down hurts a large RPG community. Over the last few days, most have settled on a startup called MeWe as a replacement. Couple videos on the topic:
Matt Finch panel discussion
Matt Finch interviews MeWe product director
I've been trying it out, and it's not bad, it's a functional forum, except for: No public posts (which they're working on), and the very annoying chat popups (which you can disable from notifying you, but can't hide entirely). I don't know if it's going to survive very long, but they're ideologically motivated to privacy and not being Facebook, which is good.
It's unnerving, though, how fast everyone coalesced on this obscure service. There weren't a lot of other good options, though. Facebook is evil, Diaspora doesn't really support the kind of sharing and consistent timeline people need, old-style forums are, as I noted, run by shitty people.
Some people made really weird suggestions, like Youtube or Twitch, posting everything as a video and comments on it? Oh hell no.