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Facebook Shuts Down 'Moves' Fitness Tracker and Two Other Apps Due to Low Usage

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Facebook has announced it is shutting down three apps that the company either launched itself or acquired from other companies over the last four years.

"Moves", "tbh", and the Android-only "Hello" all face the chop as part of the company's latest app cull. Facebook says the apps are being shuttered because of low usage.

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Activity tracking app Moves was popular at the time of its acquisition​

Fitness tracking app Moves was bought in 2014 from Helsinki-based company ProtoGeo Oy for an undisclosed amount. The app records daily activity, including walking, cycling, and running. Moves will shut down on July 31.

British-based Midnight Labs sold its anonymous teen social media app tbh to the social network in 2017 for an undisclosed sum, although TechCrunch reported that the price paid was likely less than $100 million.

Facebook says all user data associated with the apps will be deleted within 90 days following shutdown.
We regularly review our apps to assess which ones people value most. Sometimes this means closing an app and its accompanying APIs. We know some people are still using these apps and will be disappointed -- and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support. But we need to prioritize our work so we don't spread ourselves too thin. And it's only by trial and error that we'll create great social experiences for people.
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Facebook's last app cull came in August 2017, when it removed two standalone apps from the iOS App Store: the high school chat app "Lifestage" and community-focused gathering place "Groups".

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Moves was great. Used it to track everything from my mountain hikes, to reminding me where good pubs are that I stumbled upon! Until it started crashing and deleting my data in the last few months.

Closing down to "Low Usage" is a stupid statement. It was a very popular app, but gradually lost users due to Facebook breaking it. It's not hard to see why people stopped using an app they loved when you look at all the disgruntled reviews from people complaining how it's no longer useable. Fix it up and maybe some of that usage will return.
 
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I love Moves. Are there any similar fitness tracking apps that are simple and show you your daily calorie burn? I'm not looking for overly complex fitness apps that allow you to track 50 metrics.
 
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I too used Moves daily for all the reasons above. Any recommended alternatives? Agreed it has been more than a bit flaky of late but I wondered if that was down to iOS 12.
 
I used Moves exstensively when it came out. I stopped using it when Facebook took it over. I didn’t want to hand them that level of personal data.
 
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Blackstick said:
Facebook in general has low usage, just the boomers remain because they’re always last to the platform anyway. Seems most have moved on... past its heyday for sure.

I’m still a huge fan of Instagram, which they pay little attention too- and that’s probably a good thing.
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Facebook is the EverQuest of social media.
 
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It was less than $100,000,000 so NBD.

I really need to build one of these crappy apps and convince Facebook to buy it. I’d only ask for a few million! Or is the key to Facebook buying you an overvaluation?
 
Blackstick said:
Facebook in general has low usage, just the boomers remain because they’re always last to the platform anyway. Seems most have moved on... past its heyday for sure.

I’m still a huge fan of Instagram, which they pay little attention too- and that’s probably a good thing.
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Instagram is owned by Facebook, and has been since 2012. Do you think that Facebook and Instagram have completely isolated from each other management? They don’t.
 
I use gyroscope ( which just added a moves type feature called places)

And

Lifecycle


From the thread here, I will try arc now also
 
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Blackstick said:
Facebook in general has low usage, just the boomers remain because they’re always last to the platform anyway. Seems most have moved on... past its heyday for sure.

I’m still a huge fan of Instagram, which they pay little attention too- and that’s probably a good thing.
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Hahahahahahaahahahahahaha. Over 2.19 billion active monthly users with the majority using the Facebook app. Yeah, that's "generally low usage". :rolleyes:

Around 30% of all humans on the planet use Facebook every single month and you call that "generally low usage".

We'd love to know what app you think has higher usage.
 
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Blackstick said:
Facebook in general has low usage, just the boomers remain because they’re always last to the platform anyway. Seems most have moved on... past its heyday for sure.

I’m still a huge fan of Instagram, which they pay little attention too- and that’s probably a good thing.
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Yeah no that’s not true, basically everyone I know has facebook and uses it daily... like someone else said it has billions of users. It’s very broad and still extremely popular
 
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I loved Moves and used it constantly prior to Facebook takeover. It was one of the best apps I ever purchased. But when Facebook purchased it the updated privacy policy let Facebook have free reign. The only silver lining was that existing users were allowed to permanently delete account and data before the Facebook transition so I took that option.
 
From what I've read now about the 'tbh' app, it was a positive platform with a lot of active users (at least before the purchase). A shame when companies like Fecebook buys good apps to shut them down.
 
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nickjd331 said:
Moves was great. Used it to track everything from my mountain hikes, to reminding me where good pubs are that I stumbled upon! Until it started crashing and deleting my data in the last few months.

Closing down to "Low Usage" is a stupid statement. It was a very popular app, but gradually lost users due to Facebook breaking it. It's not hard to see why people stopped using an app they loved when you look at all the disgruntled reviews from people complaining how it's no longer useable. Fix it up and maybe some of that usage will return.
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Agreed. What exactly is "Low Usage"? A small percentage of overall Facebook users? Even if that was 100,000 people that you're affecting? I think it's irresponsible for a company to buy an app, neglect it and kill off the usage, and then blame it on the users (as in nobody being interested). At least it's an open app marketplace, so if there really is demand for something, it will be filled by another [better] developer.
 
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I used Moves everyday for about 2 years then it started to drain my battery painfully fast after an update. Shortly after that it crashed every time it wanted to open it. So I just stopped using it and uninstalled it eventually.
 
coolfactor said:
Agreed. What exactly is "Low Usage"? A small percentage of overall Facebook users? Even if that was 100,000 people that you're affecting? I think it's irresponsible for a company to buy an app, neglect it and kill off the usage, and then blame it on the users (as in nobody being interested). At least it's an open app marketplace, so if there really is demand for something, it will be filled by another [better] developer.
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Who will get bought out by a big company that is either cruel or clueless and you lose the software you switched to.
 
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