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Wonder about it as well, however Twitter UI is nowhere near as bad as Instagram is. Mobile client is barely bearable, but desktop version is just as bad as it c
by jesterson 6y ago
Wonder about it as well, however Twitter UI is nowhere near as bad as Instagram is. Mobile client is barely bearable, but desktop version is just as bad as it can be.
And it's not a bootstrapped startup with limited budget, it's a multi-billion company where few millions to fix it (that's including c-level bonuses) is just a rounding error in accounting.
Would be interesting to hear reasonable explanations.
- easton 6y agoIt’s by design I think to prevent scraping and adblocking, neither of which you can do (easily) in the Instagram app. Since it started on mobile, it’s not like they cut off a bunch of users like they would if they did the same thing to Facebook. (And, presumptively, they provide access to a fancy Instagram for Business for a few bucks that allows you to post from desktop, but I don’t know about that one. I know Facebook’s API is limited to businesses acting on their own pages for the most part these days, because at one point I was looking into getting my Instagram feed into a better interface and realized it wasn’t possible.)
- cblconfederate 6y agoinstagram wants us to use their app not web