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Comment by jere | Hacker News Reader

I know it's a small thing, but the URL makes it feel quite ephemeral/impersonal.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10329986720787532658...

Compare to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

Anyway, I joined. Hoping sometime in the future google+ becomes useful for me. Last post from a friend was 3 months ago.

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I don't know why Google+ doesn't have 'vanity' URLs yet. It's not like it is that hard to do, especially if you own the servers.

I know they are 'coming' and some people supposedly have them. But would it not make sense for their own properties to have them?

> But would it not make sense for their own properties to have them?

http://google.com/+youtube

http://google.com/+android

http://google.com/+motorola

How about http://gplus.to/html5plus

if you start a search in google+ and press ht..it will automagically autocomplete to the HTML5 community page, if thats not too hard for you ;), if your friends posts about whatever is valuable to you so be it but I see more value in a community filled with like-minded individuals, to each his own! Reddit has no faces and real names and we all know how ugly anonymous posting can become, youtube now looks like google+ with faces and real names. Progress.

Does this make you feel any better?

http://goo.gl/QhrXs

hm, just a shorturl. but the readability is as bad as the other one.

how about http://gplus.to/html5plus

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