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@McCroden Talking certainly isn't best for every situation. But of course neither is texting, so we think there's space to fill here. Haven't spent a ton of time with either of these as we've been pretty heads down over here. But the first thing that stands out to me is a time limit. The worst part of voice mail is long droning messages. We're trying hard to steer voice messaging away from that. We're also thinking about the one to many message, once you collect a few contacts on Cord, you'll notice you can send to one, some, or all of them. But I think we've all hit on the idea that simple one tap/hold interactions can work incredibly well for audio. (and in the case of Taptalk or Blab photos and video) Ah, good old Nextel!

@baxterjeff Very good. Yeah, I definitely agree that you need to have a limit. Good luck!

@oolah Thanks! We actually had a 15 sec limit for most our beta testing, it was a gut feeling thing, but also a bit based on this study: http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/9... We figured that 15 secs was as long as a message could get before the receiving party thought "oh boy, how long is this going to go on!" We soon realized that 1: most messages were much shorter & 2: 12 seconds allowed us to break down the circle into intuitive units. We're so used to seeing a 12 hour clock that a 12 second 'clock' is instantly readable.

@bramk Thanks! we obviously think voice is going to make a comeback, but we're biased... There is no invite built in right now, but that and a few other tweaks/features are "Waiting for Review", so stay tuned.