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Re:Collaborative chat done right by joshthewanderer on Thursday April 11, 2013 @05:47AM (#5530889)
My first thought was that it looks exactly like HipChat. Then I checked the HipChat web client, and it's pretty damned close: http://cdn.userstyles.org/style_screenshots/84237_before.png
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Re:Collaborative chat done right by adlpz on Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:08AM (#5531362)
Whoa, I don't know which one came first, but this is blatant UI plagiarism right there.
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Re:Collaborative chat done right by mnicole on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:56AM (#5532738)
Let's not go overboard; chat interfaces have looked very similar to this in the past, but it's so easy to tweak the CSS to make it look different enough that not doing so is pretty lazy and makes it obvious who they're trying to compete against.
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