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When I first opened the app and saw a "Stories" tab, I thought "oh no... not here too, ffs...". Then I immediately went to the settings and was mildly relieved

When I first opened the app and saw a "Stories" tab, I thought "oh no... not here too, ffs...". Then I immediately went to the settings and was mildly relieved (but perhaps I'm naive) to see that I could opt-out. Now I dread the day when they might decide to make it so that you won't be able to opt-out. Why can't we have nice things?

candiddevmike 4y ago
Perverse incentives to get folks to use signal more. Checking it when you get a message isn't good enough, need to get creators and influencers on the platform to let folks doom scroll. How many followers on Signal do you have?
- hbn 4y ago
  Is there anyone that actually gets excited when they see a platform has stories, or is adding them? I feel like it's just out-of-touch product managers who see everyone else doing the stories thing and blindly aping it cause it's the thing to do. In reality, the only place people seem to use stories is Snapchat, Instagram, and seemingly some people post to Facebook stories but I think it's mostly cause of the toggle in Instagram to cross-post to there.
  - bentley 4y ago
    > Is there anyone that actually gets excited when they see a platform has stories, or is adding them? I was honestly excited when I saw the headline, not because I have any intention of using stories myself, but because my friends have repeatedly tried to explain to me why they use stories on Whatsapp and Snapchat, and I have some hope this will make Signal more attractive to them. I feel the same way about stickers and the Giphy proxy, both of which are features I would never have asked for and was initially skeptical of, but that have wound up being widely used by most of my friends who use Signal.
- varenc 4y ago
  > How many followers on Signal do you have? As of now, Signal still has no concept of followers. My stories are at most only visible to all my contacts on Signal. In my mind this is a big difference between all the other major platforms with stories.
- justupvoting 4y ago
  Well that'll do for my dose of weltschmerz today, thanks.
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candiddevmike 4y ago

Perverse incentives to get folks to use signal more. Checking it when you get a message isn't good enough, need to get creators and influencers on the platform to let folks doom scroll. How many followers on Signal do you have?

hbn 4y ago
Is there anyone that actually gets excited when they see a platform has stories, or is adding them? I feel like it's just out-of-touch product managers who see everyone else doing the stories thing and blindly aping it cause it's the thing to do. In reality, the only place people seem to use stories is Snapchat, Instagram, and seemingly some people post to Facebook stories but I think it's mostly cause of the toggle in Instagram to cross-post to there.
- bentley 4y ago
  > Is there anyone that actually gets excited when they see a platform has stories, or is adding them? I was honestly excited when I saw the headline, not because I have any intention of using stories myself, but because my friends have repeatedly tried to explain to me why they use stories on Whatsapp and Snapchat, and I have some hope this will make Signal more attractive to them. I feel the same way about stickers and the Giphy proxy, both of which are features I would never have asked for and was initially skeptical of, but that have wound up being widely used by most of my friends who use Signal.
varenc 4y ago
> How many followers on Signal do you have? As of now, Signal still has no concept of followers. My stories are at most only visible to all my contacts on Signal. In my mind this is a big difference between all the other major platforms with stories.
justupvoting 4y ago
Well that'll do for my dose of weltschmerz today, thanks.

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