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This didn't address the question of how Hum will be different than any other chat program

1stop 13y ago
Yeah, it kind of did. Which chat program do you know can send a message as an email? And receive chat messages via an email address? It seems the idea behind this, is that it's a "persistent chat".
- User8712 13y ago
  Doesn't Facebook chat integrate with email in the exact same way?
  - 1stop 13y ago
    No, because it only works with facebook... ?
    - User8712 13y ago
      Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't I open Gmail, send someone a message (@letshum.com or @facebook.com), and they receive it as a Hum or Facebook chat message? Then, they can reply to the message in their chat client as if it were a text, and it goes to my Gmail? That seems quite similar, and in both cases I can communicate using email, while my friend uses chat. This seems to be the underlying reason why both services give every user an email address, so I fail to see how this sets Hum apart from other chat apps.
      - mst 13y ago
        Facebook has announced their intention to retire @facebook.com addresses, forwarding mail sent to them to the user's primary email address and making all chats involving @facebook.com addresses read only.
        pomaldn 13y ago
        If I may, linkedin does allow users to correspond with each other using both mail clients or directly through their platforms. The part that I am not too sure about is how does Hum solve user problems that whatsapp/wechat can't. The gap I find as a user is that unless there are ways for Hum to integrate with the fragmented contact databases we have across the various social networks (i.e. my gmail, 1k+ linkedin contacts, facebook friends, twitter correspondence etc) and make my life easier, I may not venture and try yet another chat platform.
      - 1stop 13y ago
        You aren't wrong, but you only described half the feature. Send an email to someone new from your facebook chat. Regardless, this is clearly a different product, if you want to try really hard to think it's not, that is your prerogative.

1stop 13y ago

Yeah, it kind of did. Which chat program do you know can send a message as an email? And receive chat messages via an email address? It seems the idea behind this, is that it's a "persistent chat".

User8712 13y ago
Doesn't Facebook chat integrate with email in the exact same way?
- 1stop 13y ago
  No, because it only works with facebook... ?
  - User8712 13y ago
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't I open Gmail, send someone a message (@letshum.com or @facebook.com), and they receive it as a Hum or Facebook chat message? Then, they can reply to the message in their chat client as if it were a text, and it goes to my Gmail? That seems quite similar, and in both cases I can communicate using email, while my friend uses chat. This seems to be the underlying reason why both services give every user an email address, so I fail to see how this sets Hum apart from other chat apps.
    - mst 13y ago
      Facebook has announced their intention to retire @facebook.com addresses, forwarding mail sent to them to the user's primary email address and making all chats involving @facebook.com addresses read only.
      - pomaldn 13y ago
        If I may, linkedin does allow users to correspond with each other using both mail clients or directly through their platforms. The part that I am not too sure about is how does Hum solve user problems that whatsapp/wechat can't. The gap I find as a user is that unless there are ways for Hum to integrate with the fragmented contact databases we have across the various social networks (i.e. my gmail, 1k+ linkedin contacts, facebook friends, twitter correspondence etc) and make my life easier, I may not venture and try yet another chat platform.
    - 1stop 13y ago
      You aren't wrong, but you only described half the feature. Send an email to someone new from your facebook chat. Regardless, this is clearly a different product, if you want to try really hard to think it's not, that is your prerogative.