It has been a couple of years since Facebook launched its Bonfire group video calling app. The company had introduced this app back when the Houseparty app was quite popular. Bonfire never made it to the United States and it never will as the company has decided to shut down Bonfire.
One of the reasons why Bonfire caught on was that it relied on rooms that users could join and leave whenever they wanted. It worked not unlike the voice channels on Discord. That flexibility was of the biggest draws of this app.
“We’ll incorporate elements of what we learned into other current and future products,” Facebook said in a statement. So even though the app may not return in the shape and form that it previously had, we might see its functionality being transferred to another Facebook app. There’s no saying if and when that’s going to happen, though.
Facebook had only ever made the app available in Denmark. It did amass over 10,000 downloads on Android but that certainly wasn’t enough in the grand scheme of things. Houseparty, the app that it took inspiration from, is still available to users. Moreover, group video calling is now possible in Google Duo as well.
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