> As for why HN hates Snap, I'm not exactly sure. Why must it be hate? Couldn't it just be, simply, that we're not that interested in yet another chat applicat

> As for why HN hates Snap, I'm not exactly sure. Why must it be hate? Couldn't it just be, simply, that we're not that interested in yet another chat application? To me, Snap is a slightly modified ICQ client. Fine, but not very interesting. Real progress would be some sort of open standard, so who you're speaking with isn't determined by which company's chat server you connect to. But then again email has supported this for several decades already, so maybe the demand isn't there.