Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
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Re: Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
#2Life imitates art: https://xkcd.com/1150/
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#3Once they decided to block showing new posts for tags, leaving only the so-called "top posts", I stopped using Instagram as it stopped making any sense to me, i.e. I could no longer find anything interesting.
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#4This looks more like they had a bug and lost a few, other than a static photo representation that was probably stored independently.
Re: Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
#5This looks more like they had a bug and lost a few, other than a static photo representation that was probably stored independently.
Geez, yeah, that notice reads like they lost some data. And didn't tell anyone about it, unless you looked. And in July 2025 they'll memory-hole the "Sorry^W, we lost your data." notice.
Edit: Correction, there's no "Sorry".
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#7This looks more like they had a bug and lost a few, other than a static photo representation that was probably stored independently.
It affected a lot more people actually, including one of my old account’s main video posts, so not just stories. It wasn’t popular but still sucked because I was featuring penmanship in motion but now many of them are just static screenshots. But that’s the implicit risk when hosting on someone else’s platform so c'est la vie I guess.
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#8Yet another friendly reminder that your data isn't yours unless you store it locally.
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#9Once they decided to block showing new posts for tags, leaving only the so-called "top posts", I stopped using Instagram as it stopped making any sense to me, i.e. I could no longer find anything interesting.
What did you start using, instead?
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#10Once they decided to block showing new posts for tags, leaving only the so-called "top posts", I stopped using Instagram as it stopped making any sense to me, i.e. I could no longer find anything interesting.
What did you start using, instead?
Maybe they are happy in recovery instead of constantly chasing the tail of the dragon. That would be the happiest ending