“My friends and I, from all across Europe, obviously couldn’t come together in real life ‘cause of Covid and the fact that we live hundreds of kilometres away,” she said. Tropper redownloaded the app as a way to connect with classmates and friends, and now uses it on a daily basis.
To get a sense of what Houseparty users think about the shutdown we reached out to them via email.Įlisabeth Tropper, a high school senior from Austria, first discovered Houseparty shortly after its launch in 2016, but didn’t use it much until the pandemic began. When Epic Games bought Houseparty for $35 million in 2019, it integrated the app with Fortnite. Younger generations in particular gravitated toward Houseparty for its unique features, like the ability to drop into video chats at random, in-app games like trivia and Uno, and its integration with Snapchat. Its owner, Fortnite developer Epic Games, is shutting down the app in October and has already pulled it from the App Store, leaving some of its users heartbroken. 1 social app in the US, Houseparty is quietly disappearing into the annals of internet history.
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