As Facebook continues its strategy of consolidating more of the backend of its various apps onto one platform, it is also doing a bit of simplification and maintenance. Over the next month, it will shut down Direct, the standalone Instagram direct messaging app it was testing to rival Snapchat, on …

Instagram decided to call it a day on its standalone messaging app – which most people have never had a chance to experience – instead opting to implement the app’s functionality into the function of messaging from the main Instagram app. In 2017, the Facebook-owned app started testing Direct in …