I want a share-to-G+ that does not involve a public +1. And I want G+ to manage "unread" status so that I don't see the same things over and over. And keybindings in G+.
The social features of Reader were not great, but we had an active group of about 30 people who shared research papers. Quite a number of new collaborations and papers were born in Reader comment threads. I see between 100 and 200 items each day, perhaps 20-30 of which are scientific papers shared by colleagues. G+ is generally not very utilitarian and it's clearly worthless for this use case.
This works, but then you have to use the mouse, and when you're done sharing, context isn't returned to what it used to be, so keyboard shorcuts (n, shift+n, j, k, l, etc...) don't work until you click on a story to focus.
Also, I can't hit l to like (maybe p to plus now?) or shift+s to share.
You can change my sharing options, you can change the look and feel. But messing with my keyboard shortcuts is tantamount to murder.
Along the same lines, you can no longer tell instantly if an item is shared (via the bottom of the content).
Before, sharing an item would change the text to "Shared" so that you could both 1.) see that it was shared and 2.) click again to undo the Share. Now, you would have to go to G+ to check.
The social features of Reader were not great, but we had an active group of about 30 people who shared research papers. Quite a number of new collaborations and papers were born in Reader comment threads. I see between 100 and 200 items each day, perhaps 20-30 of which are scientific papers shared by colleagues. G+ is generally not very utilitarian and it's clearly worthless for this use case.