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The ridiculously confusing interface to the Wave loaded on this page, plus the fact that it takes 30 seconds to load and then runs like a dog, is the perfect ex
by seldo 16y ago
The ridiculously confusing interface to the Wave loaded on this page, plus the fact that it takes 30 seconds to load and then runs like a dog, is the perfect explanation of why Wave is being shut down. It's almost like that's what they were trying to demonstrate.
- moultano 16y agoWhat browser are you using? Loads in less than a second for me. The interface doesn't seem any more complicated than a hackernews comment thread.
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- Cabal 16y agoI think you're being disingenuous, or just trying to get a rise out of people. There's little debate on these points, it was slow and the UI was unnecessarily complex. Whether or not it should be killed remains a valid topic of discussion.
- moultano 16y agoI was talking about the same thing the parent was talking about. The page linked in this submission. Why are you talking in the past tense?
- ori_b 16y agoFirefox 3.6, Linux, 4 gigs of RAM, 1.86 ghz CPU, 10 mbit connection. 9 second load time. And the scrollbar is uselessly broken. (Nonstandard behavior, arrow keys don't work, etc)
- moultano 16y agoNot that this is really a defense of the product, but you should try it in chrome. You'll have a better experience.
- elliottcable 16y agoYou’re confusing Wave and Google Wave. Google killing Google Wave essentially kills Wave as a whole, at this point; we all think Google’s web-client sucked fucking balls, but there’s not much we could do about that. What matters is that Google killing their shitty client, along with their back-end provider, also kills the ecosystem, because it’s so young.
- jbooth 16y agoFine, try again with better execution. No need to keep a brand name associated with flops.
- elblanco 16y agoI could really care less if google killed their own hosting of Wave servers. That's never what I was interested in anyway. A ubiquitous messaging federated service as an alternative to email? Now that's what I was looking forward too and simply never materialized. Where's the download link at google.com to a Wave Server with a much simpler Wave client I can run on my own servers?
- sscheper 16y ago"A ubiquitous messaging federated service as an alternative to email? Now that's what I was looking forward too and simply never materialized" Your mom is a ubiquitous messaging federated service.
- natep 16y agoWhat are you talking about? I'm using Chrome and it seems like the page has loaded, but all I see is the <h1>, <h2>, "If you think..." and thumbs up button (plus the spread the word stuff on the bottom). Am I supposed to see a link to a Wave embedded in the page?
- wwortiz 16y agoThey took it down because people were defacing it
- keefe 16y agodidn't run at all for me, 404........