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komoon Google Moderator is shutting down on June 30, 2015

Interesting, didn't know that.

I just heard some of our clients that were using Moderator before that they switched because of the mobile UI. Was it ever available for public?

komoon Google Moderator is shutting down on June 30, 2015

Great comment Danny, thanks for sharing. I have summarized the 3 main reasons why Google finally shut it down in a short post here: http://blog.sli.do/3-reasons-why-google-moderator-has-been-s...

I think mobile definitely played a key role, as the old UI didn't work there at all.

komoon Google Moderator is shutting down on June 30, 2015

Thanks for your great comments Danny. What I meant is that the moderator was not really optimized for mobile as it was built before smartphones became dominant.

It was still a solid product, that just became a bit "old" as technology progressed. As mentioned in several comments here, better alternatives (incl sli.do) are now available.

komoon Google Moderator is shutting down on June 30, 2015

Google Moderator was built before the smartphone era and noone was really working on it since.

We have been solving many of the issues of Google Moderator with http://www.sli.do. Even some Google offices have been using sli.do at their events instead of the moderator.