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This is why we can’t have nice things

“Doesn’t someone here still use this?”

The Slack message linked to an article on The Verge. Facebook was announcing it would kill its app Paper at the end of July.1

It wasn’t much of a surprise, even for a Paper bitter-ender like me. The Facebook division that made Paper disbanded long ago, and Paper hadn’t been updated in months. The app’s news aggregator / reader functions have become less of a priority for Facebook.

Mourning an app that so clearly failed in the marketplace might seem pointless. But Paper was quite simply the best designed app available for... More