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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.
There's already iCloud photo sharing, if you haven't checked that out.
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…
Considering Instagram was founded on ruining pictures with crappy filters, I doubt HD photos are anywhere on their radar.
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…
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We went through the Instagram approval process about a week ago, and it was fine. The API itself is pretty good I think, and has a pretty good coverage of their platform functionality. New sandbox and approvals are bit more limiting than the previous version, but it was ok in general. Our application was approved for all requested permissions in less than two days.
Thank you, this is very useful information. That's pretty quick actually, didn't expect that they'd be so fast. Edit: I'd be pretty interested if other developers could share their experience with the approval process too.
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…
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…
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.
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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…
Yeah anecdotally, my in app time for Snapchat vs Instagram flipped once they changed the feed. Twitter was even worse, I don't use it anymore. How insane would it be if your email inbox didn't sort chronologically? I don't know what cohorts Facebook is looking at. Are they seeing a drop in engagement but balance it doesn't matter because of the revenue stream from advertisers? Or may be the bulk of users have increas…
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Considering Instagram was founded on ruining pictures with crappy filters, I doubt HD photos are anywhere on their radar.
Plenty of "real" photographers use Instagram now (and have for several years).
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In addition to other major legal restrictions, the latest API update crossed a line for accessing your own posts; now you can only retrieve 20 of the most recent entries and pagination has been disabled. Yes, Instagram legally owns your data, but now they are actively preventing you from accessing it as well.
Isn't that only for applications in sandbox mode?
Are there any good stats available on Instagram's usage over trends over time? Seems like people are using it less and less.