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I had turned auto-update off ahead of the new instagram UI update because I prefered the look of the old Instagram. I'm now glad that I did. I don't need stories slowing down the experience, taking up more real estate, or eating more bandwidth. I don't mean to be cynical, but I think Instagram as a product has peaked. Their core functionality was perfect, and in many ways, the product only gotten worse as they've rol…
I hope Apple Photos releases a simple social network that lets you share photos without all this annoying crap trying to hook young adults.
I liked IG a lot for it's intended purpose: easy to use photo app.
I think that Facebook and other companies need to consider that it's better to change nothing than add the wrong feature. This blurs the lines too much with Snapchat. If I still used Instagram when they added this feature, I would stop using it in favour of Snapchat. (But I've already stopped using Snapchat since they feature-creeped all the way into photo backups.)
Instagram seemed to be following this policy until very recently, now the users have got bored and FB is trying desperately to catch up.
They do have the technical talents though. I think one of the word2vec authors was there, but he was giving a talk about using the same technique on emoji icons :-( I would think there are more interesting problems to tackle with the available resources at FB.
I've been to a couple of Instagram ML meetups. I am not surprised that this is what they came up with. There seemed to be a lot of technically gifted people there, but I always felt there was a lack of creativity and deep domain understanding. All the projects seemed to be in the line of: we added this feature, and we saw our user engagement increased by this percentage. Everyone seemed to be working on incremental i…
Ugh. I hope Apple Photos releases a simple social network that lets you share photos without all this annoying crap trying to hook young adults. I liked IG a lot for it's intended purpose: easy to use photo app.
I've been to a couple of Instagram ML meetups. I am not surprised that this is what they came up with. There seemed to be a lot of technically gifted people there, but I always felt there was a lack of creativity and deep domain understanding. All the projects seemed to be in the line of: we added this feature, and we saw our user engagement increased by this percentage. Everyone seemed to be working on incremental i…
What is an Instagram ML meetup?
Instagram, 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…
Can you elaborate a bit on your developer experience? I've started building an app for Instagram and would like to know. Apart from the newly introduced sandbox and app approval requirements I haven't noticed any major pain points yet. It's true that most libraries are only seldom updated, but on the other hand the API doesn't change much and it's REST with OAuth after all.
Instagram, 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…
Can you elaborate a bit on your developer experience? I've started building an app for Instagram and would like to know. Apart from the newly introduced sandbox and app approval requirements I haven't noticed any major pain points yet. It's true that most libraries are only seldom updated, but on the other hand the API doesn't change much and it's REST with OAuth after all.
Yes, Instagram legally owns your data, but now they are actively preventing you from accessing it as well.