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Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser. I'm not a big application d

Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser. I'm not a big application design junkey, but it's behavior like this that makes me appreciate the simplicity of hacker news. A few standard concepts implemented in their most basic form. No changes in the name of more user engagement. I understand that Reddit and Instagram's primary motive is to make money, but these sorts of "features" remove me from their pool of potential customers. I'd like to see a move towards a purely data based web where I get to choose how the data is displayed. I know a semantic web paired with a standard set of user interface components chosen by the user wouldn't be as profitable as the current internet, but I would prefer it.

krtkush 7y ago
> Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser. For the curious, adblockers can get rid of the annoying pop-ups.
- willberman 7y ago
  I just tried, and I can only use my adblocker to block the element that requests I login. My scrolling is still stopped, and I can't see anymore of a user's photos. Am I missing something?
  - krtkush 7y ago
    I'm a Firefox desktop user. I use all of uBlock origin's annoyance filters and it works for me.
  - mkl 7y ago
    IIRC there's an "overflow: hidden" style on <body> or something like that. Delete it and the site seems to work fine.
  - whatsmyusername 7y ago
    Scroll till you hit the modal, then ublock zapper it. If you permablock it with the picker the scroller will break. They have something from the modal logic tied into the scrolling logic.
  - lemmonii 7y ago
    Add this to "My filters" in uBlock Origin www.instagram.com##body:style(overflow-y:auto!important; max-height:none!important; width:auto!important; position:static!important;)
lotsofpulp 7y ago
> but these sorts of "features" remove me from their pool of potential customers. And they don’t want customers who don’t earn them money, like all businesses.
- pixl97 7y ago
  That works great, until you run off the people that post interesting content.
terminaljunkid 7y ago
Instagram UX is horrible in my opinion. For anyone who knows to, say rename a file, Instagram UI / UX appear worst of class. You can't find many settings. Stories are horrible design made for few use cases, Captions appear like comments etc.. etc.. They didn't even have a functioning dark mode till Android provided one. But it continues to be popular. Arguably young people are stupid. I mean most people of my age use Instagram and I will have to.
- marcodave 7y ago
  anything for having hot babes in the daily feed and hoping to have a glimpse of your schoolmate/crush in bikini

krtkush 7y ago

> Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser. For the curious, adblockers can get rid of the annoying pop-ups.

willberman 7y ago
I just tried, and I can only use my adblocker to block the element that requests I login. My scrolling is still stopped, and I can't see anymore of a user's photos. Am I missing something?
- krtkush 7y ago
  I'm a Firefox desktop user. I use all of uBlock origin's annoyance filters and it works for me.
- mkl 7y ago
  IIRC there's an "overflow: hidden" style on <body> or something like that. Delete it and the site seems to work fine.
- whatsmyusername 7y ago
  Scroll till you hit the modal, then ublock zapper it. If you permablock it with the picker the scroller will break. They have something from the modal logic tied into the scrolling logic.
- lemmonii 7y ago
  Add this to "My filters" in uBlock Origin www.instagram.com##body:style(overflow-y:auto!important; max-height:none!important; width:auto!important; position:static!important;)

lotsofpulp 7y ago

> but these sorts of "features" remove me from their pool of potential customers. And they don’t want customers who don’t earn them money, like all businesses.

pixl97 7y ago
That works great, until you run off the people that post interesting content.

terminaljunkid 7y ago

Instagram UX is horrible in my opinion. For anyone who knows to, say rename a file, Instagram UI / UX appear worst of class. You can't find many settings. Stories are horrible design made for few use cases, Captions appear like comments etc.. etc.. They didn't even have a functioning dark mode till Android provided one. But it continues to be popular. Arguably young people are stupid. I mean most people of my age use Instagram and I will have to.

marcodave 7y ago
anything for having hot babes in the daily feed and hoping to have a glimpse of your schoolmate/crush in bikini