Wave was never federated. They announced plans to federate, and released a (severely limited) version of Wave as open source, but they never federated the refe

Wave was never federated. They announced plans to federate, and released a (severely limited) version of Wave as open source, but they never federated the reference implementation at wave.google.com. The open source code doesn't include one of my favorite features, too... inline private messaging. If we want that back now we have to code it from scratch.