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A group of designers and engineers from The Browser Company, then still polishing the now-famous Arc browser for macOS, decided to run a semi-secret experiment. They called it .

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+

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. A group of designers and engineers from The

Today, Arc has moved toward AI tabs, shared Easels, and collaborative browsing. But every time you open a Space in Arc and see those circular avatars grouped together — that’s a ghost of Google+. The +1 button is dust

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.