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yeah no, snapchat was never a timeline and thats what was good about it you want to be connected with someone because you are friends but don't like the random
by cloudjacker 10y ago
yeah no, snapchat was never a timeline and thats what was good about it
you want to be connected with someone because you are friends but don't like the random shit they post but don't want to unfriend them? thats a problem for a different social network but not snapchat
- themagician 10y agoIt is a timeline though. I open Snapchat and I see all the messages and stories, in order—sorted by time. It's not jumbled, there's no features. There's no "Featured" or "Top Stories" or "Retweets". It's just a timeline of content. From people I follow or people I know who have sent things to me. My Snapchat looks just like my Twitter did in 2008, except with a few more boobs.
- cloudjacker 10y agook by definition of timeline correct, by UX of timeline no. it doesn't show you what it is without you explicitly diving into that story
- themagician 10y agoWhat are you talking about? I open Snapchat and it's literally two timelines, a private one and a public one. They are in order and timestamped. By definition and by UX. It is perhaps a quintessential example of a timeline of content.
- cloudjacker 10y agonah when people think timeline they think the UX of Facebook, Twitter and tertiary networks that show you cards of data, everything about the post they don't think some pedantic shit about it being "in order and timestamped so that fulfills all the criteria!"
- themagician 10y agoYou are the one being pedantic in this case. Sorry a list of content sorted by time is a timeline. I don't know what else you call that.