Wave was two things. - A public and open protocol that could have replaced email with structured messages if it got popular, and - A series of self-love techn

Wave was two things. - A public and open protocol that could have replaced email with structured messages if it got popular, and - A series of self-love technical exercises like the scrollbars and the live-typing which nobody cared for and killed adoption (worked in Chrome only, very few people care to share half-composed emails with their correspondents). A textbook example of losing sight of the goal and giving devs too much rope to hang themselves with.