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If someone from Facebook is listening, allowing bots in Group Conversations will enable other companies to innovate in this space. For example, you could replic
by jeswin 10y ago
If someone from Facebook is listening, allowing bots in Group Conversations will enable other companies to innovate in this space. For example, you could replicate Slack for a small team with Messenger and Group Chat bots. Right now, there is very little you could do with their Messenger API.
- chatmasta 10y agoTotally agree with this. I'm not sure why Facebook hasn't implemented group chat for bots yet. It must be on their roadmap. Maybe they are choosing to focus on 1-1 interaction right now, because 1-N interaction will require much different UX and code. Some 1-1 features have no obvious corollary in 1-N interaction. For example when a messenger bot sends you a "menu" with options, should the bot send the same menu to everyone in the group? Should only the person who triggered the bot in the group be able to interact with the menu? These are answerable questions, but there are a lot of them and I can see why Facebook would choose to focus on 1-1 interactions first (especially since those are more likely to become paying interactions). Personally I would love group bots. They can enable a lot of fun interactions, and it's certainly more fun to "play with" a novel bot with your friends than by yourself.