Google is clearly listening to user feedback on Plus. This is at least the third change so far in where I've seen Google folks engage in the initial discussions, describe their reasoning for why it was initially implemented the way it was, and (after a few days) come back with changes. Very impressive.

There's a transcript at https://plus.google.com/106912596786226524817/posts/KCUbRMKQ...

Wow. The people spoke and Google re-wrote all the gender specific language in their product to listen.

I wonder what it feels like to be Randall Munroe and have this kind of influence over the web.

This is good. Now they just need to allow people to use pseudonyms. (maybe.) https://plus.google.com/116347431032639424492/posts/Px3uaKZe...

no you can't. not yet. at least, i can't.

This is nice, but I'd love to see some more important features opened up instead- things like huddle on mobile web and working video playback in the Android app would be great.

Nice to see them react so fast, but I dont get the point about the feature.

Are people really gonna switch a button that lets them hide their gender, something that can usually be easily found out by looking at the user's firstname and/or profile picture?

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the gender thing was prominent when signing up for g+, that i think they might have anticipated this fix + "we do listen"-media-spin on forehand.

Who cares? This is actually considered tech news?

Google is cool again. Yay!

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Of all the things people want to fight about, it's gender?