>> "How do you screw up a chat program this badly?" By having the highest-level-goal be: make it look like the competition and give it away for free. Whether

>> "How do you screw up a chat program this badly?" By having the highest-level-goal be: make it look like the competition and give it away for free. Whether it actually works like the competition was deferred until some later date. If the competition perishes in the meantime, well, then there's no need to fix.