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> Can't upload photos from desktop Yes, you can. Open dev tools, set it to mobile, and set it to android. A "+" button will pop up and work fine.
by pmlnr 7y ago
> Can't upload photos from desktop
Yes, you can. Open dev tools, set it to mobile, and set it to android. A "+" button will pop up and work fine.
- dillutedfixer 7y agoNice! That does work. Thanks for that. I'm still a little baffled as to why they don't just allow that on the desktop site, though.
- morphicpro 7y agoI would put my money on they don't want to have to support server side image processing. Since their mobile apps all scale images client side its a huge cost savings vs having to support that server side.
- dingaling 7y agoBecause Instagram isn't really intended for sharing your DLSR-shot, desktop-processed labour-of-love photo. The compression, rescaling and colour mismanagement they apply to uploads should tell you that. It's quite possibly the worst way on the Web to present photos-as-art yet photographers keep signing up to it.
- bscphil 7y agoMeanwhile, Twitter, also not designed for this purpose, actually stopped recompressing (jpeg) files when viewed at the highest quality. https://twitter.com/NolanOBrien/status/1204557498990002176 https://twitter.com/NolanOBrien/status/1204557498990002176 I was actually pretty impressed by this change from a non-photo site.
- dillutedfixer 7y agoWell I spoke too soon. Initially I did see the controls pop up on the bottom, but I just resized my browser window, and now for the life of me cannot get them to show up again. Oh well. I'll keep messing with it.