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If the goal is simple text chat (communication that uses text) - but text can be used in a wide variety of ways! If some of the many who have reimplemented the same thing on a new platform instead set out to create something new, maybe something new would appear on the scene.
> If some of the many who have reimplemented the same thing on a new platform instead set out to create something new, maybe something new would appear on the scene. They do, and novelties do appear. But then they usually fail to gain traction because they require users to migrate to them. Hence, interoperability wins in the long run.
Can you think of any particularly impressive and innovative text-related communication platforms (ruling out impressive ones like Zoom that aren't textually innovative) that have been released in the last 5 years?