Arc On G+ [cracked] -

The Circles are gone. The +1 button is dust. But for a few months, inside a browser that wanted to reinvent everything, Google+ briefly lived again.

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+

One internal tester described it as: “Walking through a mall that closed five years ago, but the lights are still on and the fountains still run.” Arc’s modern, minimalist, keyboard-driven ethos clashed beautifully with Google+’s maximalist 2010s design language: badged profiles, +1 buttons, animated GIF profile headers, and the infamous “What’s hot” fire icon. The Circles are gone

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? Arc on G+ didn’t modernize the content