Comment by socalgal2
1 day ago
I was blown away by the demo but then after I thought about it, it seemed like a nightmare to me. All the problems of slack of having to manually check channels for updates except X 100 (yea, I get that slack wasn't available then. My point is I saw that it seemed impossible to keep up with nested constantly updated hierarchical threads. Keeping up with channels on slack is bad enough so imagine if Wave had succeeded. It'd be even worse.
Wave was great for conversation with one or two other people on a specific project, which I'm sure most people here used it for. I can't imagine it scaling well beyond that.
Twitter has hierarchical threads and it succeeded.
Mailing lists use hierarchical threads and they haven't gone away.
Maybe one could have worked around that by embedding Yahoo Pipes, thus automating the X 100.