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Comment by seanhunter

8 days ago

> Building a chat application should be considered a tar pit problem IMO

Yes. For example Discord originated as a side-project for a team who were supposed to be building an MOBA. That’s why if you try to build a discord chatbot or custom command or whatever, the servers are called “guilds” etc.[1]

Slack was also developed by a team who were supposed to be developing a video game.[2]

[1] https://docs.discord.com/developers/resources/guild

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)#History

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