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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.
This lets them experiment with showing ads at the most optimal times. I don't believe the new feed is about anything other than ad money.
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I've stopped using Insta for the most part. I'm an old and I feel like Snaps are just more fun for me. The major issue with that is a lot of my friends haven't caught on yet. Insta just feels like it has too many buttons and notifications from spammers flying at me. They lost the plot from the simple app they used to be a long time ago. Plus the new algorithm change is terrible for me. Every time I open the app I see…
Snapchats are surprisingly better than alternatives nowadays. I personally really dislike the new feeds by popularity route that services are adopting, and Snapchat's Stories are great because I can find a friend's feed for the day and just catch up immediately, rather than having to either dig and dig until a feed thinks a particular post is important, etc.
Can't you just go directly to that friend's timeline?
I use instagram because everything stays there I use snapchat because it's quick and temporary. Why couldn't they make it possible to have a story that appears as a single tile in your profile permanently?
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Snapchats are surprisingly better than alternatives nowadays. I personally really dislike the new feeds by popularity route that services are adopting, and Snapchat's Stories are great because I can find a friend's feed for the day and just catch up immediately, rather than having to either dig and dig until a feed thinks a particular post is important, etc.
> dig and dig until a feed thinks a particular post is important, etc. Can't you just go directly to that friend's timeline?
Right now there are feeds I've seen where I don't even see today's updates at all because their algorithms deem previous days' posts more important.
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> dig and dig until a feed thinks a particular post is important, etc. Can't you just go directly to that friend's timeline?
Sure, if you want to. But I'd rather just see how things are going with people in general through the day, not one or two in particular. Right now there are feeds I've seen where I don't even see today's updates at all because their algorithms deem previous days' posts more important.
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Sure, if you want to. But I'd rather just see how things are going with people in general through the day, not one or two in particular. Right now there are feeds I've seen where I don't even see today's updates at all because their algorithms deem previous days' posts more important.
Sometimes older posts are more important though. What if your friend got married yesterday and posted a toilet paper joke today? I've honestly never understood the anti algorithmic feed position.
I don't know that a third-party can assign a value of importance when it can be so arbitrary.
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Sometimes older posts are more important though. What if your friend got married yesterday and posted a toilet paper joke today? I've honestly never understood the anti algorithmic feed position.
I may not care enough about a neighbor/classmate/coworker getting married yesterday, whereas I may care about them posting about something about street cleaning / the exam today / debugging fixing the tough problem they ran into today. I don't know that a third-party can assign a value of importance when it can be so arbitrary.
What people say they want and what their behavior shows that they want aren't necessarily the same thing. Watch what users do, not what they say.
I would really like to know why Facebook thought that this would be a better feature for Instagram than for Messenger or WhatsApp. That's how I use my social media apps: - WhatsApp: Messaging with most of my friends (I'm from Germany and here everyone I know uses WhatsApp) - Messenger: Messaging with people that don't have WhatsApp - Snapchat: Letting my friends now what I'm up to right now. I don't put much thought…
This is Facebook's third attempt at trying to compete against Snapchat, this time with the exact same name as their product. I guess third time's a charm. Interesting though that they're only implementing the most basic features (drawing over a video?), and not the more interesting and fun face tracking stuff that Snapchat does now. Personally, I can't see this being successful. Snapchat will remain to be a quick and…
- they already launched it, not taking weeks like some other industry bozos where they announce something then ship it when no one cares anymore (Google how's that Allo doing)
- Snapchat client sucks balls on Android, it drains battery, horrible performance
- low friction to use the feature
But of course both will survive and can coexist.
Serious 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.)
I have met some members of Instagram's engineering team at Python conferences. They also run a dedicated engineering blog ( https://engineering.instagram.com ). Despite the fact that they use an old version of Django, and the product has not exactly changed drastically since it became popular, they don't seem jaded. Sometimes it's fun to build your own version of something regardless of what exists in the rest of the…