WhatsApp is bringing back statuses after replacing them with a Snapchat Story clone
A few weeks ago, WhatsApp replaced the ability for users to set a text-based in-app status with a Snapchat Stories clone.
Now, after user backlash, the company is re-adding the ability for
users to set an availability status through the About section of the
messaging app, according to a report from TechCrunch.
Like Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook’s
regular app, the WhatsApp version of Snapchat stories allows users to
post pictures and videos that disappear after 24 hours. WhatsApp hoped
that the picture and video stories would serve a similar function as the
text-based statuses, but apparently users felt differently. Per
WhatsApp, new About Status “will appear next to profile names anytime
you view contacts, such as when creating a new chat or looking at Group
info.”
There’s probably a lesson here somewhere about sticking
to the things that users like about your app and not just running after
the current popular thing that you’re competitors are doing, but given
the industry’s pace of copying features from each other, it’s doubtful
that anyone is actually going to learn anything from this.
In a statement to TechCrunch, WhatsApp noted
that the new About Status feature should be rolling out to Android users
in the next week, and to iOS users “soon.”
The article was published on : theverge
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