Facebook Messenger existed prior to the acquisition. Beluga was a mobile only product that was essentially an acquihire of the 3 member team to work on the existing Messenger mobile platform.
>Facebook was all-in on Messenger as a platform. The project is gone as well.
Facebook Messenger platform is still very much alive and well in both the games and the support / chat bot / reservations space.
> games / chat bot / reservation space
Yea thats the bloat that killed it for me, I just wanted something that lets me send messages to my close friends, nothing more, nothing less.
