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by jamesgeck0 4461 days ago
Yes, it was really great for organizing groups of people. My campus ACM chapter used it instead of email when we were setting up a new computer lab, and it was one of the best experiences I've had with a piece of collaboration software.

It's main problem for us was that large waves tended to get slow on our 2007-era entry level laptops, and nobody really wanted to maintain the wave by deleting unimportant chit-chat. Some sort of decay mechanism to hide old, irrelevant blips would have been nice.