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Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by jahnu »

fastball wrote: post #2

Well done on the mildly confusing post. For people that come straight to the comments – Threads was also what Instagram called a standalone messaging app that they introduced in 2019 and never took off. They shut it down at the end of 2021, which is what this article references. Apparently they've re-designed it a bit (or started over from scratch) to turn it into a Twitter competitor now that Twitter is a bit... tur…

I’d never heard about it before the news that a “new” Threads was coming and I’m reasonably online ;)

I’d say the general public don’t know or care about the failed version but will find it easy to try the new one. This is probably the biggest threat to Bluesky gaining tracktion. At least in the medium term.

The name is pretty good too. Instantly conveys it’s purpose.

Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by 12907835202 »

29athrowaway wrote: post #9
ProxCoques wrote: post #5

Now's your chance, Google Plus!

Google Wave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1qzIEJAFww

I got to be on the early BETA for this as we were doing some stuff for Google. I thought it was the future and registered loads of domains for things I liked suffixed with "wave" thinking it would be possible to create personal or community focused waves in the future.

Alas it didn't work out.

It's hard to remember how good it was, I remember it being better than Slack, Teams and Discord are now. But maybe that's a false memory.

Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by 29athrowaway »

12907835202 wrote: post #12
29athrowaway wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Wave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1qzIEJAFww

I got to be on the early BETA for this as we were doing some stuff for Google. I thought it was the future and registered loads of domains for things I liked suffixed with "wave" thinking it would be possible to create personal or community focused waves in the future. Alas it didn't work out. It's hard to remember how good it was, I remember it being better than Slack, Teams and Discord are now. But maybe that's a f…

To be honest, it was very hard for most people to understand the concept. They should just have made it public and let people discover it.

Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by yawnxyz »

fastball wrote: post #2

Well done on the mildly confusing post. For people that come straight to the comments – Threads was also what Instagram called a standalone messaging app that they introduced in 2019 and never took off. They shut it down at the end of 2021, which is what this article references. Apparently they've re-designed it a bit (or started over from scratch) to turn it into a Twitter competitor now that Twitter is a bit... tur…

Seems like they keep restarting and testing new things and failing. I was looking into Threads and there's all these variations, and this one's probably going to suffer the same fate.

BUT, we shouldn't knock them for trying; that's what startups are all about, right?

Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by xmcqdpt2 »

29athrowaway wrote: post #14
12907835202 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got to be on the early BETA for this as we were doing some stuff for Google. I thought it was the future and registered loads of domains for things I liked suffixed with "wave" thinking it would be possible to create personal or community focused waves in the future. Alas it didn't work out. It's hard to remember how good it was, I remember it being better than Slack, Teams and Discord are now. But maybe that's a f…

To be honest, it was very hard for most people to understand the concept. They should just have made it public and let people discover it.

Wave was so cool. I used it to work collaboratively on projects with a friend and it was just great. I was really excited about our wave enabled future. Alas...

The simultaneous editing became integrated into Google Docs than in MS Office but I feel like neither really reproduced the magic of Wave. IMO the key ingredient was the chat format: you could go directly from messaging to co-authoring without having to like setup a google doc or send a sharepoint link etc. and then you could keep messaging in the same window.

I guess Notion is the modern equivalent? I've gotten burned on hosted notes products too much at this point though.

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