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Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

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Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

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Post by techntoke »

Cool design, but the idea of messages disappearing after they're typed makes it practically pointless for general use. There would be a lot of other ways to accomplish similar functionality of keeping the most recently typed messages active, without removing them completely.

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

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Post by webpaymentsguy »

noobermin wrote: post #3

Not quite a copyright concern but wouldn't this get confused with the island[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap

Honestly, they should embrace it. Change the Yap logo to the outline of the island. Turn an abysmal oversight into a piece of marketing lore.

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

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Post by lainga »

noobermin wrote: post #3

Not quite a copyright concern but wouldn't this get confused with the island[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap

Not a chance, if Alphabet can call a molten salt power storage spinoff "Malta" (and really, really drive home the point that they were coming up with names by spitballing random "molten"-like sounds)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-19/gates-bez...

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

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Post by Covzire »

techntoke wrote: post #2

Cool design, but the idea of messages disappearing after they're typed makes it practically pointless for general use. There would be a lot of other ways to accomplish similar functionality of keeping the most recently typed messages active, without removing them completely.

It seems really fascinating to me, all about being in the moment like conversations face to face.
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