- Because invites were so damn limited. It took well over a dozen people inviting each other to get my entire med school class of <190 on there so we could work on review notes together. It should've taken no more than a handful, tops.
- There were synchronization bugs that were never worked out. It's incredibly frustrating when you work on something and then just flat-out lose it because 15 other people are working on it at the same time and the server has no idea what to do with all the changes. Real-time editing? Fail.
- No notification system. Sure, there was a Firefox plug-in, but this should've been integrated from the beginning. No one has any reason to be logged into wave all the time.
- User interface was not intuitive. Seriously. I can't count the number of times I had to explain to people how to use it. Also, there are way better ways to show how many people are on a wave than putting 100+ avatars at the top of a wave taking up real estate. A sidebar would've been much more elegant.
- Basic functionality was not there. Once you added someone to a wave, even if it was on accident, you couldn't remove them. What the heck? Since when does collaboration software fail to have an undo feature?
- It was slow. Really. Really. Slow. Quora's speed makes GWave look like a snail dragging a 10-lb weight.
I'll add more if I come up with them...
Read other related questions on Quora:
- Is Google+ suffering like Google Wave did?
- If normal users so clearly "get" what was wrong with Google Wave, how did the team behind Google Wave miss this?
- Did Google Wave fail, because they failed to install a killer edit feature like Quora's?
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