I hate posting something like this without a link, but I read an article quite some time ago (supposedly) written by one of the core developers of Wave. To mass

I hate posting something like this without a link, but I read an article quite some time ago (supposedly) written by one of the core developers of Wave. To massively oversimplify the article, he blamed it on having way, way too many developers working on it at once... lots of inefficiencies crept in as portions were duplicated, it ended up much more bloated than it should have been, etc. IIRC, he also acknowledged many other contributing factors, like the slow release of the features presented in the original videos (some of which never were released), people simply not knowing what to do with it, etc. Something else I remember was that he suggested the code should/could have been a tiny fraction of the size and dramatically more efficient for what it did. I'm not saying I agree with the article at all, it's just what I read. For all I know it could have been a hoax. This appears to shed similar light on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101201 Personally, I loved Wave and was hoping to run my own server when they released what code they did release. Unfortunately, what has come of it is still lacking key features I'd want before doing so. (I'm not a Java developer, so would not be able to contribute)