Well… the developers are self described students of the ages of 17 to 19. Making a project just to learn is par per course. Chat… especially non federated chat

Well… the developers are self described students of the ages of 17 to 19. Making a project just to learn is par per course. Chat… especially non federated chat isn’t really that hard to implement as a protocol. It’s the UX that’s hard to nail down, and if they can get it right it won’t matter if Matrix existed first.