{"id":2930,"date":"2017-01-18T19:04:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-replaces-its-old-inbox-with-the-web-version-of-messenger.html"},"modified":"2017-01-18T19:04:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:04:39","slug":"facebook-replaces-its-old-inbox-with-the-web-version-of-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-replaces-its-old-inbox-with-the-web-version-of-messenger.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook replaces its old inbox with the web version of Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Just under two years ago, Facebook introduced<\/a> a web interface for its private chat application, Messenger. Now, Facebook is integrating that same web app\u00a0into the desktop version of Facebook, where it replaces the older messaging experience.<\/p>\n

The change has\u00a0been spotted by a number of users in multiple markets \u2013 including also TechCrunch staff in the U.S. and Europe \u2013 which hinted\u00a0it\u00a0was more than a small-scale \u201ctest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook did\u00a0not make a formal announcement about the change. However, in the comments of a post by Facebook head David Marcus, he\u2019s responding<\/a> to a lot of feedback about the new\u00a0upgrade to Messenger within Facebook.<\/p>\n

Some users, of course, are demanding the old Inbox be returned. (After all, it seems like every\u00a0Facebook change must be rebelled against at launch.)<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve been upgraded to the new Messenger interface on Facebook.com, you\u2019ll notice a few subtle changes to the user interface, when accessed from the desktop.<\/p>\n

For starters, the previous inbox icon has been replaced with the Messenger icon in the blue navigation bar at the top of the screen.<\/p>\n

When clicked, you\u2019re taken to a revamped inbox that looks like what you\u2019d see if you had visited Messenger.com directly.<\/p>\n

Here, the left side of the screen reads \u201cMessenger\u201d above the list of those\u00a0friends you had recently chatted with, while the center of the now three-paned interface will display the content of the currently selected chat session.<\/p>\n

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The right-hand side of the screen introduces something new, too, as it displays the name of your friend in the selected chat, when they were recently active, and provides access to other Messenger features.<\/p>\n

This includes the ability to search the conversation, edit nicknames, change\u00a0the chat\u2019s color, change emoji, and mute notifications. There\u2019s also a link to the person\u2019s Facebook profile, for easy access, and below that, are the photos you and the friend have shared in Messenger.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at the top-right of the screen, there are buttons to initiate a call, video call, as well as an \u201ci\u201d icon in a rounded blue button that will hide the right-hand informational panel from the screen.<\/p>\n

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Other Messenger options\u00a0are tucked away under the Settings icon on the top-left, including access to your \u201cMessage Requests\u201d (the replacement for that hard-to-find \u201cOther\u201d inbox), Archived threads, a list of Active Contacts, and more.<\/p>\n

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Facebook has long approached Messenger with a different strategy on mobile, than it has on the web.\u00a0On mobile devices, it\u00a0pushed<\/a>\u00a0users away<\/a> from the web version of Messenger and to the dedicated mobile app.<\/p>\n

But on the desktop<\/a>, the\u00a0web version of Messenger<\/a> was designed as a\u00a0complementary counterpart to Facebook\u2019s top-ranking mobile Messenger application. It offered a way to keep up with your friends without being distracted by Facebook\u2019s\u00a0News Feed and other notifications. (Facebook has even dabbled with building a native Mac app<\/a> for Messenger.)<\/p>\n

The change to Facebook.com\u2019s messaging experience\u00a0comes on the same day that Facebook\u2019s David Marcus made a series of announcements<\/a> about what we can expect from Messenger over the course of 2017.<\/p>\n

The service, which now has over a billion users, has seen a number of updates in recent months, the post noted, including the addition of visual and expressive features to rival Snapchat, like masks, effects and stickers, as well as the addition of Group Video Chat, Games, a platform for businesses, and more.<\/p>\n

As for what\u2019s next, Marcus\u00a0was light on specifics, but noted that the company\u00a0planned to launch a directory of bots and would help developers build on top of the Messenger platform using technologies like A.I. Overall, the post implies Facebook\u00a0wants to make Messenger thought of as more than a chat app, but a social network of its own.<\/p>\n

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