TECHNO WORLD BEYOND FUTURE: #Squirrel - A new group #chat app by #Yahoo

Chat apps are all the rage these days. Just ask Google, it can't seem to get enough. And it looks like Yahoo is the latest to jump on the bandwagon with its new organized group chat app named "Squirrel," which mysteriously appeared on the Play Store just earlier today.

Yahoo has mostly fallen out of relevance in comparison to tech titans like Google, Apple, and Microsoft, even though long ago it would have been mentioned with them in the same breath. One need only peruse the 3,700+ word dedicated "Yahoo! data breaches" Wikipedia article to understand exactly how the company got where it is. Following the Verizon acquisition, Yahoo's remains still continue to exist, and this new app appear's to be the company's latest product.

From the app's title and description, Squirrel seems like it is all about organization, in a manner reminiscent of Discord or Slack. Conversations are divided up into rooms within groups. Notifications can be enabled or disabled on a per-room basis, and rooms within shared groups can be set as secret, so they don't appear for everyone. There are also some sort of nebulously described "reactions" that seem to be an emoji or sticker system. Blasts sound like the @ tag systems from Slack and Discord. Attachments and Activity view should be self-explanatory.

Squirrel clocks in at 13MB in size, targeting Android 5.1 and up (though it's available for iOS as well). The project also has its own site under the Yahoo domain, directing the inquisitive to send a request for an invite code, should they not already have one.