The New Yahoo Messenger App Is Great for Drunk-Texters
Summary
It uses the same tech to let you scroll back through weeks, months, years of a conversation and see everything without eating much storage on your phone. And because everythings on a server and not your phone, Messenger offers an invisible unsend, where you can just *poof* make a message disappear long after you sent it. Messenger borrows tech and expertise from 10 companies, Bonforte says, but three in particular: Xobni for contacts, Flickr for photos, and Tumblr for the ridiculously huge and searchable GIF library. Shoemaker thinks the more interesting method is like a radar ping—if you have the app and opened it 10 minutes ago, youre probably going to get the message, but if you havent used it in a month the odds go down. Theyre trying hard to solve that most obnoxious group-chat problem, the one where youre all having 12 conversations at a time and keeping up with whats happening becomes untenable.