today,WeChat's official account "WeChat Pai" posted a post to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the launch of Moments, and posted screenshots of the internal beta version and photos of the early interface.It is understood that on April 19, 2012, WeChat 4.0 was officially released, and the circle of friends function was launched simultaneously, becoming an important part of the WeChat social system.
Early interface of Moments
Regarding the outside world's curiosity about "why it was chosen to be released on April 19th", WeChat gave a very simple response: It has no special meaning, it was just that the App Store happened to pass the new version review that day.
Before the official launch,The Moments function has gone through 34 versions of iterative polishing, and the internal version number even ran out of 26 English letters, so other symbols had to be used to continue numbering.
Regarding the question of why "likes" and "comments" are hidden, WeChat explained that in order to ensure that the content becomes the main body on the Moments timeline (Timeline), the originally exposed "likes" and "comments" were stored in a hidden button.
Regarding WeChat’s lack of filter function, officials believe that real life should not have filters.
In addition, WeChat also mentioned,The birth of Moments is also related to Guilin rice noodles. At that time, the product team went to eat rice noodles after working overtime every day.
WeChat also posted the content of the early product team's circle of friends: "Meetings...working overtime...and eating rice noodles..." to review the daily status of the early development stage.