Wave had a huge promise. Today we communicate through various broken, half backed and decades old unimproved systems. Emails have hardly got any new features, even the simple things like "upvoting" in discussion is not allowed. Chats give little control over archival and searching. Forums on various websites are managed by uninterested parties who have little interest to improve them and may dissapear at any time. Group discussions quickly gets out of hand and become unwieldy. Despite all the progress, its super hard to apply good filters, surface interesting discussions and contributing to them meaningfully as an universal capability. There is a dire need for good communication software that integrates these various channels while still providing common set of powerful features that we can keep improving beyond 1980s standards.