Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Google+ limits Viewing to the last 250 posts for any profile

Google+ only lets you view the last 250 posts for any profile including your own. The first screen displays 20 and each time you hit More Google+ displays 10 more posts. But after you do this 23 times. you hit the limit of 250 posts, the More disappears and you cannot see any older posts.

Now, the older posts are still there on Google+ - they are just not easily accessible. The only way you can view them is if you know the URL of the post. This limit is not a bug but appears part of the initial design of G+.

We are not sure if there is an easy workaround or if this limit will be lifted in the future. Given that there is no way to search for your older posts within Google+ right now, this seems to be a big limitation in finding and referring to older posts. 

Please note that the number of actual posts anyone sees seems fixed at 250 but the last visible post may be different for everyone depending on which circles they are in and how many posts were shared with them (public and limited)
The above limit was discovered earlier in this post -https://plus.google.com/107797841320768724118/posts/RNSqcw1k4Fn
and credit to goes to everyone who contributed to the discussion and thanks to +Steve Coles for suggesting this limit. I am reposting this issue as Public since the original post was to Extended Circles only.



I have verified the limit of 250 with my posts as well as those of +Robert Scoble and +Mike Elgan

Not sure if anyone else has noticed this limit earlier - if so please post the URL of the post in the comments.

If you consider this as a problem please do reshare and also report it via feedback.
to Google+.
cc : +Vic Gundotra +Bradley Horowitz



via Arun Shroff 

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