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Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
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Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
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That sounds like an unnecessarily aggressive way to handle that. It certainly could have been an honest mistake on the part of the user who owned that account. Why not just change the email address on the account?
If you signed up for gmail or similar early, then dumbasses of the world use your email address as 'their email' dozens of times a day for random internet accounts because it's also their name, and they don't understand or don't care that it isn't their email address. It gets tiring fast and services don't deal with this usecase that well other than 'forget password'. That guy was the initial asshole to signup using…
People don't seem to understand just how common this problem is with any sort of initial.lastname@gmail address. It is insane to me that so many major big name companies do ZERO email verification on signups and just start spamming me with with garbage every time some idiot uses my email address and expect me to "unsubscribe" to something I never subscribed to in the first place.
Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
#163“This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love” How does blocking access help people view things? How does blocking access help people understand how to have the best experience? Access is a better experience than access denied. Creating an account and lurking doe…
Since this discourages me from takin gthe time to look at the photo it does indeed provide me with a better experience. Thanks, guys!
Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
#164There is a little trick to bypass this, open your browser console, click on mobile view, and refresh the page, it should load the mobile version of Instagram.
Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
#165“This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love” How does blocking access help people view things? How does blocking access help people understand how to have the best experience? Access is a better experience than access denied. Creating an account and lurking doe…
If I had to guess, their account creation metrics are flattening out and some product manager had the idea of implementing this restriction to restart growth. If your performance reviews depend on growth, restrictions like this seem rational even if they're obviously anti-user to anyone outside the company.
Also it makes scraping much harder.
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Facebook did not "fail."
Depends on ones measure of success. Mine is, does this product and/or service represent a net benefit to humanity without egregious side-effects? the answer isn’t always so clear-cut
Out of curiosity, why does the condition "without egregious side effects" exist? Aren't egregious side effects already factored ibto the "net benefit" calculation?
Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook did not "fail."
Depends on ones measure of success. Mine is, does this product and/or service represent a net benefit to humanity without egregious side-effects? the answer isn’t always so clear-cut
That measure is so subjective I'd be surprised if it was ever clear cut. You could argue circles with coal, oil, FB, beer, various drugs, fancy rocks. All are double-edged swords (the handle is also a sword (and it's on fire))
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#168I hate these walled apps. Having to log in is maddening. Especially Facebook, especially right now... As a photographer, I have to have some sort of IG presence but I absolutely hate the app, the UX and the whole enchilada. Its the worst viewing experience possible for good photos and yet is the medium of choice for so many... I miss the old web.
Honestly, I think I prefer not having access to something like Pinterest[1] which lets you have some access for a bit and then as soon as you try to interact with the site in any meaningful way (usually to leave it) they insist you sign in. At least with this I know the expectation up front, rather than having it sprung on me by surprise. [1] I've avoided Pinterest for awhile that this may not be the way they attempt…
My disdain for Pinterest is at unrecoverable levels because of this and the fact they display interesting photos without any details or source listed even if logged in. I often wonder the difference between people that become antagonistic for being forced to signup vs people that are persuaded.
Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
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I hate when sites don’t accept + modified email addresses.
As someone working to launch an app, this isn't something that I was terribly concerned with handling before launch, but I now have a question. Is the best way to handle this to allow the '+' symbol in email addresses, but verify that the underlying email address hasn't already been registered so that one email address still can't create multiple accounts? So if you sign up with covercash+123@gmail.com, should I chec…
>so that one email address still can't create multiple accounts?
You can not do that. You have no way of knowing how my mail server handles username portions of the address. Maybe bob+123@ is the same account as bob@, maybe it isn't. It is entirely up to the mail server to decide what it wants to do with it. And likewise, you have no way to know any other username portions are not the same account. I can set my email server up to use "x" as a delimiter, and make bobx1 and bobx2 both go to bob if that's what I want.
Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
#170“This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love” How does blocking access help people view things? How does blocking access help people understand how to have the best experience? Access is a better experience than access denied. Creating an account and lurking doe…
Another way to say this, how does lying tell the truth? I don't understand corporations that decide to lie like this.
I noticed Facebook Messenger does this fun thing where you can open it, start to read a message and then it says "BAM--YOU MUST UPDATE". The fact they intentionally designed it this way makes me want to delete Messenger forever.