Facebook is shutting down a clone of the group video chat app Houseparty, The Verge has learned. Bonfire, which Facebook began testing in the summer of 2017, will stop working sometime this month. The app began testing in Denmark in the fall of 2017, but it never came to the United States.
“In May we’ll be ending support for the Bonfire tests,” Facebook said in a statement. “We’ll incorporate elements of what we learned into other current and future products.”
Facebook’s effort to clone Houseparty suggested the company had grown at least somewhat nervous about the app’s early success with younger users. Houseparty began life as a synchronous group video chat in which participants would open it up to see who else was already online,…
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