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The UI around it is so nonsensical too.

It's a tab in the drawer called "Chat", I guess to distinguish itself from the legacy "Messages"

But then you click the Chat button and it takes you to a screen called "Messages" that looks visually identical to the old Messages screen. Furthermore, the Chat button icon is a message bubble, as to not be confused with the envelope icon for Messages. But the compose button in the Chat screen is the envelope with a +, and clicking it brings you to a screen titled "New message". The compose field in the chats themselves is also labelled "Message".

This is like the most basic shit to get right.

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It's X, the company that took the brand "Twitter," valued at multiple billion dollars, and changed it to X because its owner thought X was a pretty cool name, and did it without telling any of the UI designers in advance.

I'm still stunned by that.. definitely a Joker lighting the money on fire scene.

So many products, printed packaging, websites, business cards, games, etc. had the Twitter logo and link on them. It was even integrated into iOS at one point.

This wasn't the first time either.. he tried it with PayPal as well, but they said no, we aren't doing X as the name for PayPal.

The boss can do what they want like all bosses, but this wasn't a decision based on fiduciary value for the shareholders.

And also SpaceX, of course. And the Tesla model X (as part of a series so he could have the models S, E, and X). And his son X. Well, X Æ A-12, but X for short.

I hope that if I ever go crazy, there's someone who loves me that I trust that's around me to tell me when something I thing is cool is actually incredibly stupid.

The weird thing is the dedicated Grok app is actually quite pretty/fluid

Seeing such weaknesses and poor execution generally means that a lot of talented folk are choosing not to work at that company.

Is anyone still clicking on that? It's just a billion group chat spam messages and grifter message requests.

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