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Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate? - Interesting that they went with a stand-alone app instead of baking this
by foooorsyth 3y ago
Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate?
- Interesting that they went with a stand-alone app instead of baking this into IG like they did with Stories (which killed Snap overnight). I wonder how much they’ll advertise the download inside of IG.
- Can’t say I like the name. Doesn’t evoke much emotion in me. The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter” in front of it. And the choice of the plural form is interesting.
- The logo looks like it belongs to an app that should start with the letter ‘a’. Confusing that they go with a t-word like Twitter but then make the logo look like a different letter. Also, no color? Will it really stay black and white or will it adopt the IG gradient?
- cubefox 3y agoThe logo looks like the letters C and a. I wonder whether this is intentional.
- tommit 3y agoWhat would have been the intention?
- blurrybird 3y agoThe logo is an @ with a very strange choice of typeface. Probably a nod to the @username format that Twitter made so popular.
- deaddodo 3y ago@ was used to reference people looooong before Twitter popularized it. In fact, it was users on Twitter already using the paradigm that made the engineers integrate it. Same as hashtags.
- justinator 3y agoI don't seem to remember that. Where was that used? The closest I can think is email, which is where I thought Twitter borrowed it. I remember hashtags being popularized first by Flickr (maybe @mentions were too?)
- deaddodo 3y ago> I don't seem to remember that. Where was that used? The closest I can think is email, which is where I thought Twitter borrowed it. IRC, chat rooms, web forums. Pretty much any sort of group social arena. The symbol lends itself to the usage, not vice versa. That's like asking "why do people use quotation marks around quotes"; because that's its intention.
- hagbarth 3y agoI like the standalone app as a user. I don't have IG installed and I would not install it to get Threads. But I would install a standalone app. I'm sure I'm not in the majority though.
- bertil 3y agoIt’s a text-based app, which dramatically changes expectations. Instagram Stories was, like Instagram, photos and videos. That allows consistency in how things work (not that it does in practice because some gestures were based on shared expectations with Facebook Stories, others with TikTok or Snapchat, but… you get it). Facebook designers have suffered quite a bit from dealing with very inconsistent media format: comments on one photo in an album are one of the obvious ones, or a poster criticizing and sharing a video and comments assuming the author shot the video is familiar to anyone with less media-savvy friends. Limiting media forms to consistent sets makes sense to have a smoother experience. Facebook, and later Instagram once the first one was burned, has done a lot to have a social graph that makes sense: actual people and well-established pseudonyms, famous people and brands, etc. It’s the Social part of what is known internally as “The Graph” and a very crucial asset, something that was expected to be shared across properties: Facebook and Instagram, of course (hence the horrifying confusing relation between your Facebook account with your civil name and your pseudonymous account on Instagram, outing a few people that way), but also the MetaVerse lately and yet again with some controversy. WhatsApp fought against having the Social part of the graph as a default because WA had its own graph; that was a tough battle. It’s not fully isolated: WA Shopping leverages Inventory, the Things part of the graph, massively so. Despite all that drama, this confirms that Facebook wants to leverage its Graph further, specifically Instagram’s—likely a victory from Ad Partners who want brands to feel comfortable early and spend fast. The spaghetti logo looks nothing like what I have on my screen, so I think it’s a good one (Instagram gradient was to avoid having to deal with Facebook’s curse of starting very distinct, to be one of the too many blue apps far too soon). The name starting with 't' could be a way to capitalize on people who search by app name and their muscle memory that the app with ranty posts is called t-something.
- dbish 3y agoI think it's "@" not "a", like @<username>, which makes sense to me.
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoYou're probably right, but they made the loop turn the wrong way.
- cezart 3y agowhich was intentional to be more stylized, and make it a bit less clear, which invites curiosity
- netheril96 3y agoI don't like the name "Threads" either. Probably because I'm a programmer.
- askvictor 3y agoCue the tailor/seamstress:
- quickthrower2 3y agowritten in swift
- quickthrower2 3y agoShould have called it coroutines
- thom 3y agoI don't like the name. Probably because I'm from Sheffield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
- jamiek88 3y agoOr indeed anyone in Britain over a certain age! That film scarred me as a kid!
- WorldMaker 3y agoI don't like the name. Probably because I'm a weyrholder with actual institutional memory of the last Threadfall and its destruction. https://pern.fandom.com/wiki/Thread https://pern.fandom.com/wiki/Thread
- alvis 3y agoWho hasn't been hurted by threads? lol
- jansan 3y agoWould you prefer the name "Promises"?
- hypertexthero 3y agoI like the logo, a twisty line or thread forming an @atsign, which brings to my video game mind Rogue and Nethack :) Not a bad name, but the “th” in Threads can be problematic to pronounce in other languages. Good to have competition in this space.
- aio2 3y agoIt reminds me of the social media BeReal. Similar logo, black and white.
- skaushik92 3y agoThere’s also this symbol from a language called Tamil that looks similar: கு
- what_ever 3y agoIsn't it a character and not a symbol? Also, doesn't look anything like it.
- jgoodknight 3y agoSnapchat is not dead…
- wodenokoto 3y agoNo global rollout either. I can’t download the app from the App Store as it is not available in my country.
- niutech 3y agoDid you know that Instagram had previously got Threads app, which was closed in 2021? (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787783/instagram-threads-shutting-down-meta-messaging https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787783/instagram-threa...) Also Threads is a messaging app (https://threads.com https://threads.com). Isn't it a trademark violation?
- alvis 3y agoIn a way, the drama at twitter helped meta to successfully relaunch threads. Without musk, there is no mastodon and no threads
- aiisjustanif 3y agoSnapchat is steadily growing and increasing revenue. [1] [1]: https://investor.snap.com/overview/default.aspx https://investor.snap.com/overview/default.aspx
- bobmaxup 3y ago> The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter” in front of it. As if twitter or tweet was when twitter launched?
- thirdusername 3y agoSnapchat is overwhelmingly the primary way my much younger sister uses to talk to people of her age, discord is the second. It was quite surprising, I was also surprised people of her age are exchanging discord handles IRL like we used to with MSN/ICQ etc. and then just use it for DMs. She doesn’t even use Snapchat stories because “no one watches stories” and are just direct DMing her friends, and posts general audience stuff to TikTok. I immediately went and bought Snapchat shares when I found that out.
- jgoodknight 3y agoI am actually a huge fan of Snapchat, but they don’t monetize your younger sister very well because only stories has ads
- tech_tuna 3y agoI actually think Threads is a great name. . . it sounds like discussion threads. Also, the name Twitter is beyond awful because it sounds twitty! :) Seriously, I have no dog in this fight. I stopped using Twitter about a year ago when everything went full Elon. I might use Threads at some point, if it gains enough traction.
- 1583 3y agoi like the name threads