Changes in Threads: you will soon be able to archive your posts on the Meta social network

Meta has started testing the post archiving feature in Threadsso that users can archive their content either automatically, after a period of time after publication, or manually with selected content and at the desired time.

The microblogging social network aims to continue improving the user experience, specifically, allowing you to manage the publications in your feed with the archiving option. In this way, published content can be hidden and recovered later, as other social networks allow, such as Instagram.

In this sense, Threads has begun testing the post archiving function with some users, allowing you to save selected posts manually, so that they no longer appear in the feed from that moment on, or archive all posts automatically after passing a certain period of time since its publication.

That is, with manual archiving, users will be able to select specific posts from their feed and, from the options menu, choose the ‘Archive now’ function. Thus, the publication in question will no longer be displayed publicly.

For its part, the automatic archiving option makes it possible that, once a specific period of time has passed since the publication of content, it is automatically archived and no longer appears in the feed.

As the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, explained in a post on Threads, if you want to show the posts that had been hidden as public again, they can be unarchived “at any time.”

Mosseri has also detailed that this is a feature that is being tested as an option. So those users who want to use automatic archiving must configure it for their account.

MORE THAN 150 MILLION ACTIVE USERS PER MONTH

On the other hand, Threads has exceeded 150 million active users per month, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared in a call to investors within the framework of the company’s first quarter earnings report in 2024.

Specifically, the executive director has highlighted the good growth of the platform which, he said, since its launch in July of last year, has followed the trajectory expected by the technology company.

Thus, the latest addition to Meta’s social platform ecosystem has seen growth of around 20 million users since February of this year, when the company announced that Threads had reached 130 million monthly active users.