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The ridiculously confusing interface to the Wave loaded on this page, plus the fact that it takes 30 seconds to load and then runs like a dog, is the perfect explanation of why Wave is being shut down. It's almost like that's what they were trying to demonstrate.

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You’re confusing Wave and Google Wave. Google killing Google Wave essentially kills Wave as a whole, at this point; we all think Google’s web-client sucked fucking balls, but there’s not much we could do about that. What matters is that Google killing their shitty client, along with their back-end provider, also kills the ecosystem, because it’s so young.

Fine, try again with better execution. No need to keep a brand name associated with flops.

I could really care less if google killed their own hosting of Wave servers. That's never what I was interested in anyway. A ubiquitous messaging federated service as an alternative to email? Now that's what I was looking forward too and simply never materialized. Where's the download link at google.com to a Wave Server with a much simpler Wave client I can run on my own servers?

"A ubiquitous messaging federated service as an alternative to email? Now that's what I was looking forward too and simply never materialized"

Your mom is a ubiquitous messaging federated service.

What browser are you using? Loads in less than a second for me. The interface doesn't seem any more complicated than a hackernews comment thread.

I think you're being disingenuous, or just trying to get a rise out of people. There's little debate on these points, it was slow and the UI was unnecessarily complex. Whether or not it should be killed remains a valid topic of discussion.

I was talking about the same thing the parent was talking about. The page linked in this submission. Why are you talking in the past tense?

Firefox 3.6, Linux, 4 gigs of RAM, 1.86 ghz CPU, 10 mbit connection.

9 second load time. And the scrollbar is uselessly broken. (Nonstandard behavior, arrow keys don't work, etc)

Not that this is really a defense of the product, but you should try it in chrome. You'll have a better experience.

What are you talking about? I'm using Chrome and it seems like the page has loaded, but all I see is the <h1>, <h2>, "If you think..." and thumbs up button (plus the spread the word stuff on the bottom). Am I supposed to see a link to a Wave embedded in the page?

They took it down because people were defacing it

didn't run at all for me, 404........

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