Facebook Kills Messenger Day, Put Snapchat Clone Feature On Stories

Before it even had the chance to take off in popularity, like many of Facebook’s products have done, Messenger Day has already met its end. The social network giant is axing the project and will instead merge the features with Facebook Stories. Basically, Mark Zuckerberg’s online entity is putting its Snapchat Clones in one, huge basket.

Messenger Day was basically like Snapchat’s 24-hour messaging limit, which makes it the same as Facebook Stories in everything but name. As Tech Crunch reports, it would seem that the social network’s users found it confusing to have these two features on essentially the same platform. As such, Facebook decided that it would be better to simplify things by merging the two features.

“We needed to make it easier for people to share Stories across different apps,” Facebook product manager Connor Hayes told the publication. “Some people actually thought these experiences were already connected. We feel like it would make sense.”

To be clear, Messenger will have the features that it had with Messenger Day. Instead of calling it Day, it will be called Stories.

There are also a few minor differences between Messenger and Facebook Stories. On Messenger, for example, there are going to be some bigger AR features since that’s where much of the focus of frames or lenses is being directed at.

As The Verge points out, these adjustments are basically Facebook trying to figure out how it can best use the features that it cloned from Snapchat in order to give users the same experience or better. Adding new features like linking Instagram and Facebook stories or giving users the ability to create GIFs are just some of the ways that the company is refining its product

Instagram users seem particularly taken with the changes, which also arrived on WhatsApp. Aside from the scrapping of the name, not much has changed regarding this particular development.