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You can only reinvent text chat in so many ways before you converge to the de-facto standard most people are using nowadays.
by phoe-krk 4y ago
You can only reinvent text chat in so many ways before you converge to the de-facto standard most people are using nowadays.
- mistermann 4y agoIf the goal is simple text chat (communication that uses text) - but text can be used in a wide variety of ways! If some of the many who have reimplemented the same thing on a new platform instead set out to create something new, maybe something new would appear on the scene.
- phoe-krk 4y ago> If some of the many who have reimplemented the same thing on a new platform instead set out to create something new, maybe something new would appear on the scene. They do, and novelties do appear. But then they usually fail to gain traction because they require users to migrate to them. Hence, interoperability wins in the long run.
- mistermann 4y agoCan you think of any particularly impressive and innovative text-related communication platforms (ruling out impressive ones like Zoom that aren't textually innovative) that have been released in the last 5 years?