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> I guess chat wasn't a glamorous product at Yahoo! so nobody wanted to waste their career on it. Perhaps not glamorous, but it was possibly the most dog-foode
by darrenf 8y ago
> I guess chat wasn't a glamorous product at Yahoo! so nobody wanted to waste their career on it.
Perhaps not glamorous, but it was possibly the most dog-fooded product for all employees – at least IME. Literally every single person I ever interacted with while working there (for 11 years) used it as their primary means of communication with other colleagues. Up to and including David Filo (memories of "hey, Yahoo! Greece homepage is down, can you help?" popping up on my screen one morning)
- oblio 8y agoIt would make sense for it to be used by people. In Romania there was no big marketing campaign for it, so it basically spread just based on word of mouth reputation. It beat out MSN, ICQ, AOL quite handily. It was kind of a memory hog for the time and relatively unstable ocasionally but the set of features was great.