US EditionMeta Messenger Website Shutdown: Facebook Retires Its Standalone Messaging Platform
Meta ends standalone Messenger website to consolidate messaging on Facebook and mobile apps, allowing chat history restoration via PIN after transition.
- Meta announced on a company help page that the Messenger website will disappear in April and web users will be redirected to facebook.com/messages for messaging on a computer.
- Originally launched as Facebook Chat in 2008, Messenger became a standalone app in 2011, with messaging removed from Facebook in 2014 before Meta began reintegrating Messenger in 2023.
- The company help page explained that users can restore chat history by entering a six-digit PIN, which can be reset if forgotten, and matches the Messenger backup PIN.
- Affected users include web-based Messenger users, and people who deactivated Facebook accounts but used Messenger will be particularly affected by the website shutdown after Meta closed Messenger standalone desktop apps.
- Observers noted the writing was likely on the wall since October, as Meta's consolidation strategy follows the 2023 reintegration of Messenger into Facebook.
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