1. Stickers
2. Status
3. Stories
4. Chat wallpapers
5. etc.
I guess it shows the different ways people use chat apps but I don't see any use case for status or understand why people want stories in yet another app. I'm sure they have their reasons though. Quite an interesting thread of requests.
What I really like about it is that you are not forced to look at the status of people, you as a consumer of the published status retrieve/pull them only when you want.
Mind sharing an example of something you've used it for?
Most of my statuses are photos I take from my phone, when I'm out cycling, making some food, or even a link to an article in find interesting. I like that they are removed after 24 hours, and no pressure to edit the photos beyond simple filters. No pressure like when you post a photo on Instagram.
2. Having had them for so long chats without status feel weird now. They turn chat from sending letters into conversations. It's the difference between leaving a note on someone's desk and talking to someone face-to-face.
3. Stories are nice for when you want to be like "hey this happened" or "look at this cool thing" but don't want to spam your friends with notifications.
4. I hate staring at the same background all the time. I change them for the season, things I'm into at the moment, holidays. Same with my laptop wallpaper.