Engineers at our startup don't build features anymore

Now that Whatsapp is becoming more like a social media feed, and will proceed to progress deeper into such a pit, what will we use to communicate better?

iMessages is great for iOS, but lacks the cross platform appeal and group chat creation ease. Telegram is spammy, and I do not want to download another messaging app. I mean, how annoying is it that your friends and family didn't download that last three apps you told them were better than WhatsApp?

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bitpush · 4h ago

I didnt dive super deep into it, but it looks like ads are going to be in status (the disappearing snapchatty things) and in Explore page.

I dont think ads are showing up when you chat in 1:1 or in group chats, which should be OK?

zahirbmirza · 4h ago

Apparently there is an entire team in WhatsApp that is there to maintain the ancient user interface. And I can see you're correct, chat will be similar. However, I think, one of the reasons for the demise of x/Twitter is that the clutter makes it hard to separate useful from junk. The appearance of ads in the status view will probably just make me less likely to go to the status section. I guess the more annoying issue is that it is possibly deviating from a chat app to another social media portal with ad delivery.

lcnmrn · 4h ago

Signal.

zahirbmirza · 4h ago

Great App, but one that no one wants to download. I have never gotten a Single message on Signal. Idk why, it seems so functional and is multiplatform.

KomoD · 29m ago

> but one that no one wants to download

100M+ downloads on just Android says otherwise

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