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Y'all are being weird about content from an online service that, I would assume, is meant to be shared with others, not hoarded on your local storage. I don't

Y'all are being weird about content from an online service that, I would assume, is meant to be shared with others, not hoarded on your local storage. I don't know what IG "archiving" entails, does it remove stories from public view or something? The main point of using an online service like IG is for serving and sharing your content. Not keeping it to yourself. IG stores and serves public content in a secure fashion, with very high availability and unparalelled reachability. You've replied to my "over-engineering" with single-user hoarding solutions. Do you want to serve the content or not? IG posts involve more than a JPEG. "Stories" are slideshows made of multiple items. There is metadata, tagging, other users: context. If you want to download a couple of JPEGs and lose all that context, you're not using IG anymore, you're hoarding.

jjulius 2y ago
>I don't know what IG "archiving" entails, does it remove stories from public view or something? Ah, there's the disconnect. "Stories" only display for 24 hours, and then they're gone from your profile. That said, they're saved in a story archive that only you have access to - ostensibly, as it says in their settings menu, so you "don't have to save them to your phone". They're not being served to users, they're just there for you to look back on, and maybe re-share if you want to in the future. >Do you want to serve the content or not? Maybe. Maybe not. It's up to the individual to decide. My point is, it does not have to be that complicated for things that one wants to, essentially, just archive. >The main point of using an online service like IG is for serving and sharing your content. Not keeping it to yourself. Sure! And what happens if something that you really want shared on your IG profile gets deleted from a bug like this? Wouldn't it help to, I dunno... have that stored somewhere "in case of emergencies"? ;)

jjulius 2y ago

>I don't know what IG "archiving" entails, does it remove stories from public view or something? Ah, there's the disconnect. "Stories" only display for 24 hours, and then they're gone from your profile. That said, they're saved in a story archive that only you have access to - ostensibly, as it says in their settings menu, so you "don't have to save them to your phone". They're not being served to users, they're just there for you to look back on, and maybe re-share if you want to in the future. >Do you want to serve the content or not? Maybe. Maybe not. It's up to the individual to decide. My point is, it does not have to be that complicated for things that one wants to, essentially, just archive. >The main point of using an online service like IG is for serving and sharing your content. Not keeping it to yourself. Sure! And what happens if something that you really want shared on your IG profile gets deleted from a bug like this? Wouldn't it help to, I dunno... have that stored somewhere "in case of emergencies"? ;)