Messenger News
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Facebook's official Messenger news blog announces product features such as end-to-end encryption, desktop apps, Rooms and Watch Together.
What HN saysHN links it for official announcements, notably the rollout of default end-to-end encryption and the Watch Together feature.
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- 1Facebook Messenger Launches a Desktop App on Mac and Windows4 people · 7 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
- 2Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 3Come on over Facebook Introduces Messenger Rooms1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Messenger updates end-to-end encrypted chats with new features1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 5Expanding Testing for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 6Introducing Facebook Messenger 41 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 7Facebook begins rolling out dark mode in Messenger1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8New Messenger Feature Gives You Ability to Remove Messages for Everyone1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 9Facebook’s 50-person Zoom alternative, Messenger Rooms, is now available1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 10New Facebook Messenger1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 11Meta’s Approach to Safer Private Messaging on Messenger and Instagram DMs [pdf]1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 12Preventing Unwanted Contacts and Scams in Messenger1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 13Feel together messenger introduces watch together1 people · first shared 2022
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dang · 2023-12-07
Related: https://messengernews.fb.com/2023/12/06/launching-default-end-to-end-e… (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38551993, but we merged that thread hither).
gotfork · 2022-11-16
This looks like the layout for the "Watch Together" feature: https://messengernews.fb.com/2020/09/14/feel-together-messenger-introd…
There's a bottom section that slides up and if a user clicks on one of the videos it will play for all participants. If anyone sees this and didn't intentionally click on one of those videos please file a bug!