Mobile Google+ Communities

On Friday, Google launched Google+ Communities. What are these good for? We don't know yet, but they are broadly equivalent to Facebook groups and as those have lots of applications, Communities look like they might be interesting.

An initial frustration was the inability to access Communities on mobile devices, specifically tablets, as they don't appear on the Google+ app or the mobile version of the site Google (wrongly) forces on tablet users. Thankfully, George Station came up with a workaround. Use the Chrome browser and at the Google+ login page, select Request Desktop Site from the dropdown menu under the Settings cog:

That should work, although you may need to log out and back in again a couple of times, then you should have access to Communities:

See you there!

Alan Cann

Biological Sciences