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Putting the Chat into Snapchat

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Re: Putting the Chat into Snapchat

#31

When are they going to put proper encryption into Snapchat?

This is an interesting part — they're focussing so much on the product but the underlying protocol is still vulnerable to use outside of the app itself, leading the way to spambots, saving of snaps and general degradation of the "niceness" of the ecosystem.

Re: Putting the Chat into Snapchat

#33
On Android the Snapchat apps keep crushing.

I know I have a fancy red phone nobody uses (I think it's called NEXUS 5 from a company named Goodle or Google, I can't remember).

So, before putting new stuff in the app, please fix it!

Re: Putting the Chat into Snapchat

#34
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It's not a coincidence that they are coming out with new features right before CyberDust is about to become big(they are coming to Android this month). I will switch to CyberDust as soon it comes to Android not just because it's better than snapchat functionally, but because it doesn't reveal the people you talk to most to the whole world. I know a lot of people that don't have snapchat specifically for this reason.

CyberDusts leading app store reviews are so obviously shilled it hurts. They actually read like they were written to go in the description section.

Re: Putting the Chat into Snapchat

#35
Not a fan. Almost everyone I know has stopped using Snapchat. Its servers are god-awful - don't work 50% of the time here and people have got tired of seeing friends' sushi pictures & selfies 24/7.

Also, choosing not to support Windows Phone (and apparantly not even recording WP users' requests) is a really stupid move in my opinion.

Furthermore, I see no reason why Snapchat should be preferred over Facebook Messenger. If you want to share a moment with a friend, you might as well share it for more than 10 seconds. Messenger always works reliably for me. Snapchat doesn't. Case closed.

Re: Putting the Chat into Snapchat

#36

Not a fan. Almost everyone I know has stopped using Snapchat. Its servers are god-awful - don't work 50% of the time here and people have got tired of seeing friends' sushi pictures & selfies 24/7. Also, choosing not to support Windows Phone (and apparantly not even recording WP users' requests) is a really stupid move in my opinion. Furthermore, I see no reason why Snapchat should be preferred over Facebook Messenge…

Also, Facebook itself, not taking into account its Messenger, is dying out - 90% of the newsfeed is covered with posts from sites like The Verge or any other sites that you follow. The actual amount of stuff that you care about is 2% of it all. Can't honestly remember someone posting a legitimately interesting status update. Instead, I see selfies and news.

Re: Putting the Chat into Snapchat

#37

This is a great. I find that half my snapchats are boring photos of my face, lunch, or coffee mug, just so I can put a caption over them. No more! It also seems like a full on attack against Facebook messenger.

I would say full on attack against Whatsapp

Re: Putting the Chat into Snapchat

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look at how much Facebook paid for Whatsapp. Features like this new chat feature will probably help SnapChat grow a lot bigger - then Facebook will come back with a much bigger offer.

Can Facebook afford a much bigger offer?

$152 billion market cap. They produced $922m in free cash flow in Q1 and had $12.63 billion in cash at the end of Q1 (so they have plenty of cash as well). Zuck can use it all at his discretion.

They could drop $20 billion on Snapchat tomorrow morning and there's nobody that can stop Zuckerberg from doing it if he thinks it makes sense.

Re: Putting the Chat into Snapchat

#39
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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would that update be? Or is "user-to-user messaging" explicitly text messaging?

The original quote is about mail: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." Which itself may have been derived from an earlier Usenet quote about MIT [1] "Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail." [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_law...

That's a poignant observation.

Just on my front page, 5/20 apps can send direct messages.

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