This is a bit of a puzzling "announcement". Does anyone have more details on what’s actually changing?
I don’t really use Facebook itself anymore, I’ve mostly kept Messenger for messaging. Curious whether this is an attempt to push users back toward the main feed experience.
No insider info but this seems like two teams combined and one of their (redundant) products got shuttered. Not a typical "shutdown" announcement for a service since it was (AFAIK) just a different interface for the same underlying feature, accessible elsewhere.
Previous / related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052007 Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026 (dzrh.com.ph) 33+ comments
Dupe of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042390 Meta: Messenger.com is no longer available for messaging (facebook.com) 20 hours ago, 8 comments
This is a bit of a puzzling "announcement". Does anyone have more details on what’s actually changing?
I don’t really use Facebook itself anymore, I’ve mostly kept Messenger for messaging. Curious whether this is an attempt to push users back toward the main feed experience.
No insider info but this seems like two teams combined and one of their (redundant) products got shuttered. Not a typical "shutdown" announcement for a service since it was (AFAIK) just a different interface for the same underlying feature, accessible elsewhere.