Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web • Hacker News Board

nsns wrote: post #10

There are already several 3rd parties on the web offering this service (e.g., web.stagram.com, statigr.am), wonder how they'll take this.

They'll go away. I wouldn't be surprised to see a TOS change soon to ensure that.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by lleims » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 8:06 PM UTC

barredo wrote: post #12

cjstewart88 wrote: post #2

Why don't numbers have commas?

I wonder the same thing about youtube views count

I do see commas on YouTube's views count.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by iamben » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 8:07 PM UTC

nsns wrote: post #10

There are already several 3rd parties on the web offering this service (e.g., web.stagram.com, statigr.am), wonder how they'll take this.

Just posted the same thing on the other thread. Poor guys. I suspect this will butcher their traffic.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by acdha » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 8:19 PM UTC

iamben wrote: post #15

nsns wrote: post #10

There are already several 3rd parties on the web offering this service (e.g., web.stagram.com, statigr.am), wonder how they'll take this.

Just posted the same thing on the other thread. Poor guys. I suspect this will butcher their traffic.

It's an incredibly obvious direction for Instagram to expand in so I'd hope they had some plan for this

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by duck » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 8:24 PM UTC

barredo wrote: post #11

yllus wrote: post #5

Alternate title: "Announcing the serious Facebook competitor that could have been."

It only competes with Facebook with one feature.

Yes, but you could argue it is the killer feature of Facebook.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by uhwuggawuh » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 8:25 PM UTC

cjstewart88 wrote: post #2

Why don't numbers have commas?

Because some places, like Europe, use the comma symbol as the decimal point, so pi would be 3,14159...

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by elliottkember » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 8:27 PM UTC

Why didn't they just buy http://instagre.at?

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by iamben » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 8:32 PM UTC

acdha wrote: post #16

iamben wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just posted the same thing on the other thread. Poor guys. I suspect this will butcher their traffic.

It's an incredibly obvious direction for Instagram to expand in so I'd hope they had some plan for this

Rake in as much cash as possible from their ads whilst Instagram aren't doing it and then wind it down?

I can't see what other benefit they'd bring over the official site (except as another post noted, RSS feeds).