I wonder when VSCO will add stories...
Introducing Instagram Stories
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Re: Introducing Instagram Stories
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't that only for applications in sandbox mode?
Yes, only in sandbox mode. Once your app goes live, the 20 post limit is removed.
Have you gone through the approval process? The accepted use cases are very restrictive, and specifically do not support allowing you to access more than 20 of your own posts.
"I want to display hashtag content and public content on my website."
"This use case is not supported. We do not approve the public_content
permission for one-off projects such as displaying hashtag based
content on your website. As alternative solution, you can show your own
Instagram content, or find a company that offers this type of service
(content discover, moderation, and display)."Re: Introducing Instagram Stories
#63Are there any good stats available on Instagram's usage over trends over time? Seems like people are using it less and less.
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#64Serious question: what is it like being on an engineering team like this? Where the explicit objective is to clone a competitor head-to-toe. Does it impact morale? Can you recruit great people to such teams?
(Note, I get that nothing is completely original out there, and that there are a few differences between this and Snapchat.)
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#65Instagram, instead of focusing on making important improvements to its own app and platform, decide to clone Snapchat. Color me surprised. Things that are shit with IG and still require attention: - there is no real onboarding experience [1] - good luck contacting a human that works at Instagram with a support query as a user [2] - good luck contacting a human that works at Instagram with a support query as a develop…
One more thing to add on your list: spamming is ruining the entire experience. For a company that sells AI as the next big thing, not being able to detect accounts following 5000 people, having 8 followers and posting thousands of comments "GET 1000 FOLLOWERS ON [URL]" every day is kind of a joke.
I want to upvote this twice. This is the single biggest dissatisfier I have with Instagram. I've given up on blocking and reporting fake or spammy users.
Re: Introducing Instagram Stories
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah anecdotally, my in app time for Snapchat vs Instagram flipped once they changed the feed. Twitter was even worse, I don't use it anymore. How insane would it be if your email inbox didn't sort chronologically? I don't know what cohorts Facebook is looking at. Are they seeing a drop in engagement but balance it doesn't matter because of the revenue stream from advertisers? Or may be the bulk of users have increas…
I never understood why they couldn't just give people the option to retain the chronological sorting.. It can't possibly be that difficult to give users the choice.
Moving the feed from 'chronological' to 'algorithmic' obfuscates the true quantity of actual content on the your timeline, thereby allowing a higher density of ads and other sponsored content without you necessarily being able to tell or prove.
I hypothesized about other benefits and drawbacks here [1]
Re: Introducing Instagram Stories
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plenty of "real" photographers use Instagram now (and have for several years).
For marketing, which has been positive for a lot of artists. It's definitely allowed people to get their works out there, but let's not act like it's for serious photography.
> but let's not act like it's for serious photography.
I (strongly) disagree. There is some incredible work on Instagram from (many) thousands of 'amateur' and professional photographers alike. "Serious photography" isn't just restricted to DSLRs/MF/etc.
In many ways, the constraints of mobile photography (lower res, fixed focal length, small viewport when consuming) has benefits, just like constraints elsewhere in photography.
(I follow many photographers who primarily or solely publish to Instagram; many who aren't marketing their paid services.)
Re: Introducing Instagram Stories
#68Instagram, instead of focusing on making important improvements to its own app and platform, decide to clone Snapchat. Color me surprised. Things that are shit with IG and still require attention: - there is no real onboarding experience [1] - good luck contacting a human that works at Instagram with a support query as a user [2] - good luck contacting a human that works at Instagram with a support query as a develop…
Add to this list this awful new trend (twitter does that too) that every time I open instagram they "suggest" someone to follow. I think I follow like 40 ppl. More than enough for me. Not for them.
Re: Introducing Instagram Stories
#69Instagram, instead of focusing on making important improvements to its own app and platform, decide to clone Snapchat. Color me surprised. Things that are shit with IG and still require attention: - there is no real onboarding experience [1] - good luck contacting a human that works at Instagram with a support query as a user [2] - good luck contacting a human that works at Instagram with a support query as a develop…
Add to this list this awful new trend (twitter does that too) that every time I open instagram they "suggest" someone to follow. I think I follow like 40 ppl. More than enough for me. Not for them.
Re: Introducing Instagram Stories
#70What's funny about this thread is it's almost all people complaining about dev experience, APIs, etc and saying IG is dead...
Meanwhile their customers are very happy and very active. Look at how many snaps you see on your snapchat right now and then go look at how many IG stories have already been posted in the first couple hours.
I'd say that was a successful launch.
Nit picking things, as a developer, i understand... but ultimately what matters is: are customers using it? Right now the answer is, without a doubt, yes.
Thousands (Millions?) are debating deleting their snapchats at this very moment. I know I am.
IG did a great job getting a whole lot of activity back on their app. Congrats to them.