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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by teej on Saturday June 04, 2016 @10:38AM (#11836482)
The rationale that Facebook is using is chat isn't chat anymore, chat is a platform. You have Line/QQ/WeChat to thank for that. Cut the edges to funnel into the "core", and soup it up with platform features to compete with China.

Personally I'm not convinced that "Westerners" are going to get on board with Chinese-style all-in-one chat apps. I'm doubly unconvinced that Facebook will pull it off.

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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by mr_spothawk on Saturday June 04, 2016 @11:51AM (#11836737)
As a westerner, WeChat was one of the coolest apps I encountered living in China.

That said, we should probably consider all of these platforms harmful. I've migrated (and been pressuring my connections to migrate) to Telegram.org

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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by kahnpro on Saturday June 04, 2016 @04:40PM (#11837900)
But Telegram is still based on another proprietary, centralized server. I don't see how this solves anyone's problems.
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