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I think they went through a period (or still are, I honestly moved over to messenger lite a couple months into it) where they were seemingly intent on making me
by crocodiletears 7y ago
I think they went through a period (or still are, I honestly moved over to messenger lite a couple months into it) where they were seemingly intent on making messenger the WeChat of the west. It got real chunky real quick. It was around the same time everyone was excited about conversational ui and Microsoft announced their bot framework.
It may have been slow and bulky before that, but that's when I started to notice.
- monocasa 7y agoThey were trying to make it the WeChat of the non china east and africa, not the west. And they've been pretty successful at that, "messenger" is almost synonymous with "Internet" in some parts.
- kyawzazaw 7y agodefinitely. Facebook is the internet in my home country. But still lots of Messenger features were not used. So still bloated. Not that anybody complained or moved away from it.
- crocodiletears 7y agoI wasn't aware, but honestly quite happy they succeeded. A lot of the extra features they were adding seemed pretty out of place for my local market, but they definitely put a lot into it.