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Wish I noticed this before reading the whole announcement!
I wonder if Shopify bought the wrong one on accident.
The title should be: 'Shopify is acquiring a Threads team'
Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
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Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
#52With Shopify shutting down threads so quickly, what’s the play here? Use the talent to build chat functionality, so that merchants can add that as a feature to their website?
LLM-based support chat probably. It's a pretty ripe opportunity to build something analogous to Amazon's support experience, especially when combined with Shop Pay. Putting payment provider, retailers, potentially suppliers, customers and documentation into a single conversational interface will be quite convenient for the end user.
Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
#53Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
#54Threads must have had very little meaningful usage from customers to be able to shut down and delete all data within 2 weeks of the announcement with hardly a mention of how this might impact their userbase
According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off.
> According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off.
Props to them, but this is why I have a dislike for cloud software. Companies wouldn't even need to do that in the first place, if they had just used self-hosted Mattermost or Rocket.Chat, or something else, since those are usually good enough for like 80% to 90% of the use cases anyways. Possibly with some other software thrown in the mix as well, like OpenProject.
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#55Interesting how all data will be deleted within two weeks (June 18), that seems a bit fast. I guess it prevents rollerover costs for data store.
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According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off.
> According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off. Props to them, but this is why I have a dislike for cloud software. Companies wouldn't even need to do that in the first place, if they had just used self-hosted Mattermost or Rocket.Chat, or something else, since those are usually good enough for like 80% to 90% of the use cases a…
Heavy its a huge pain to set that up and maintain it though. Rocket chat, last time I checked required building your own android app and pushing it to the store.
Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
#57If you are looking for an alternative that’s even more async than Threads, check out https://twist.com/ We (Doist) have been developing it since 2015.
I remember using it at a startup around 2017-18. At the time, I thought it was just another tool they were experimenting with. But after moving on to another job, I found myself missing it.
Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
#58Not to be confused with Threads software that was in conflict with Meta when it started the Instagram-related Threads platform 7 months ago