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I was one of the (evidently very few) users of Wave. While it had many features, the one I remember now very fondly was proper message threading. It wasn't unti
by mixedmath 5y ago
I was one of the (evidently very few) users of Wave. While it had many features, the one I remember now very fondly was proper message threading. It wasn't until years later that I used my first email program (mutt, of all things) with simple, correct threading.
I'm still somewhat annoyed that major email providers don't support proper threading. I wonder why. Is it because email is supposed to be "easy" and threads are cognitively "hard"?
- ed 5y agoDefine proper threading?
- Jtsummers 5y agoIt wasn't flattened like in many consumer and business targeted email readers these days. Which was a sharp contrast with Google's other main communication product, Gmail, which flattened threads into conversations.
- mikewarot 5y agoYep... that's the thing that killed it... everything was constrained to a threaded chain of replies, instead of being a proper multi-user realtime editor. It was trying to be Reddit, Slashdot, HN, etc... a threaded forum post, instead of hypertext you could markup, annotate, or edit.