CRDTs are the future

Re:CRDTs are the future by natural20s on Monday September 28, 2020 @04:25PM (#24620879)

Ahhhh Google Wave. I was an early adopter and shed a tear when it went away. The closest I've felt to that product is Slack but find Slack too noisy. With Wave I felt like I was IN my work not in a "sidebar" application that was pulling my attention from my work. I suppose there were so many ways to use Wave and so many ways to use Slack that your experience could be completely different than mine. But RIP Google Wave.

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Re:CRDTs are the future by hughw on Monday September 28, 2020 @04:36PM (#24620973)

I just never thought email needed fixing, and I suspected "worse is better" [1] would apply to Wave adoption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

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Re:CRDTs are the future by TillE on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:13PM (#24621271)

Nobody uses email anymore! It's a last resort. If properly nurtured, Google Wave easily could have become Slack and more. It was pointing in that direction.

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Re:CRDTs are the future by rhizome on Monday September 28, 2020 @07:38PM (#24622485)

Yes, nobody uses email anymore. That's why 99% of websites have an email signup blocker for discounts, or a newsletter, or just for the heck of it. But they do want that email address.

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