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The photo caption says that's just the infrastructure team. I'd imagine the product team is much larger given how many features are crammed into Messenger.
by traek 8y ago
The photo caption says that's just the infrastructure team. I'd imagine the product team is much larger given how many features are crammed into Messenger.
- adtac 8y agoI wish it was the other way around. We'd have fewer, but faster features.
- marksomnian 8y agoSeems like Messenger is getting WeChat-ized - in China, WeChat [0] is your one-stop shop to getting anything done - chatting, following celebrities, booking housekeeping, payments, even "mini-programs". And now many Western messaging apps are starting to take inspiration from this [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat [1]: https://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/
- markkanof 8y agoIs it working though? Just because Facebook keeps adding features doesn’t necassarily mean that people are using those features at the same scale as WeChat. I avoid Facebook messenger entirely, but are others using it for all these ancillary things like sending friends money?
- fwn 8y agoMy (non-technical) friends & family, as anecdotal evidence, seem almost universally happy about switching to Facebooks Lite Messenger. (An app that only provides messaging functionality.) They perceive it as less confusing.