Arc On G+ High Quality -

Because, according to an internal design memo leaked to TechCrunch (and later confirmed by Arc’s then-CPO), Google+ represented a forgotten model of “spatial sociality” — content organized by (asymmetric follow relationships) and Communities (topic-first grouping) rather than algorithmic feeds.

Arc on G+ didn’t modernize the content. Instead, it rendered every post in its original font (Google’s old “Open Sans”) but inside Arc’s split-view, command-bar-controlled interface. You could search posts by decade, Circle density, or even emoji frequency. arc on g+

And it was beautiful.

Not on Google+ as in “built for it.” But on as in: they resurrected an old, read-only archive of public Google+ posts and rebuilt a browsing experience around it. Why resurrect the failed social network no one asked for? Because, according to an internal design memo leaked