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"Instagram Just Became Snapchat With 'Stories' That Disappear After 24 Hours"
Translation:
"Instagram Press Release: Instagram Would Very Much Like To Be Snapchat..."
 
Disappears... people think that but nothing disappears in Internet, especially with big names like facebook or snapchat selling your info to advertisers and keeping for future needs. People believe in this myth of messages/photos/videos disappearing from Internet, we technologists should not spread this false word
 
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Ugh, I don't think this is for me. I really don't like snapchat and it seems like instagram is moving that way. I have the stories update now. Not really enjoying it.
 
I don't get this new obsession with stuff that vanishes forever.

Do we not want to save cool things to look back on them later anymore? Nostalgia is a wonderful feeling; I love finding stuff I posted online 15 years ago. If I'd been using Snapchat like services back then, there would be nothing!
No, actually, we really don't want to keep stuff publically posted, mostly because we forget to take it down
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I miss the "good old days" when an app did one thing and did it well. If you wanted to do something else, then you downloaded a different app. Nowadays, everything has to be a features smorgasbord in order to steal users and revenue from each other.
Doing one thing and doing it well is good for UX. As you've pointed out, it's not so good for building a company.
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Which is funny considering anything shared can be screen-capped and saved for later blackmailing... ;)
I was under the impression that SC blocked screenshots
 
Yeah, I think the tools or the resources to archive all of everything some random person posts just isn't available or feasible at this point. But not too far from now every single thing will be archived, even if it's stupid crap that nobody should care about from people that aren't even known, and it will be tied to them in the future in everything that they do. Kids want less privacy but more privacy of time. They don't want to be held accountable for the actions of their youth when they're older, and yet they give all of this control to these companies and post it everywhere. I know my interns are always concerned with scrubbing their profiles before graduation and finding a job. Eventually every single piece of data that enters the internet will be archived and easily searchable. We're already partway there. There are lots of bots that archive tweets and things like that. I don't use Instagram very often, but compared to Snapchat it seems more open and I think has more public APIs, but I might be wrong. The APIs allow everything to be captured automatically. Maybe there won't be an API for these stories?
You seem to not know how public APIs work. The user has to sign in and agree to use your app for your app to use IG's APIs. Archiving works for public data, like tweets. It does not work for private data like SC's (this is assuming third-party crawlers, not any possible crawlers made by SC)
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Why??? Facebook own both so wtf
FB doesn't own Snapchat...
 
You seem to not know how public APIs work. The user has to sign in and agree to use your app for your app to use IG's APIs. Archiving works for public data, like tweets. It does not work for private data like SC's (this is assuming third-party crawlers, not any possible crawlers made by SC)
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FB doesn't own Snapchat...
I don't work a lot with public APIs, but in the past I did with Twitter and Flickr. I've just seen some websites in the past that seemed to archive a ton of the user data on Instagram. Maybe it was only people signing up for it, but it seemed like a lot. Like I said in my post, I might be wrong, because IDK how their APIs work. I'm a designer, but a couple years ago I built private APIs to connect our app to our WordPress site. So I have some understanding. And at some point next year I'll be building an API to connect research data from our research centers for display online.
 
Did Instagram just become Samsung?

Nah. Samsung's brand spanking new Note 7 phone has ability to log in using your eyes. Meanwhile, my 2013 Galaxy Tab S tablet
has a fingerprint scanner that even an upcoming new MacBook Pro for $2000+ won't have.

So your petty dig at Samsung-copies-Apple fails, if that's what you were insinuating.
 
Nah. Samsung's brand spanking new Note 7 phone has ability to log in using your eyes. Meanwhile, my 2013 Galaxy Tab S tablet
has a fingerprint scanner that even an upcoming new MacBook Pro for $2000+ won't have.

So your petty dig at Samsung-copies-Apple fails, if that's what you were insinuating.
You realize that iris scanning is less secure than fingerprint scanning, right? Also the rMBP is rumored to have TouchID ad does - shocker - the iPad which is actually what the Tab S competes with.
 
Just let us turn this feature off and give us back our chronological feed and I'll be fine. I don't need these big ugly icons in the way of pictures I actually want to see.
 
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Something else to make the app slower... I'll keep these disappearing photos for ever to snapchat.
 
I miss the "good old days" when an app did one thing and did it well. If you wanted to do something else, then you downloaded a different app. Nowadays, everything has to be a features smorgasbord in order to steal users and revenue from each other.
What a shame that these businesses are acting like... businesses.
 
Which is funny considering anything shared can be screen-capped and saved for later blackmailing... ;)

...which notifies them that you screenshotted their stuff. Unless someone's a creep and uses a 3rd-party app/jailbreak to save peoples' stuff without them knowing.
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This exactly. I didn't download Snapchat until I got my iPhone 6s Plus last year, and then I did finally because my sister kept pestering me (she's 30 btw) that it was the easiest way to send quick dumb pics of my niece and nephew. I finally kinda "get" it now, and love it for simple stuff like that throughout the day. But the insane weekend snaps of my friends are pretty entertaining as well. It's kinda fascinating the things people post when they don't really care. Makes it more addictive to visit Snapchat than Instagram for me currently. I don't post much of my own things, but I follow a bunch of people now, and even have grown to like the news/entertainment stories too.

Exactly! I will admit that when snapchat first came out, and everyone was talking about it, I thought it was dumb. I use it daily now these days.
 
...which notifies them that you screenshotted their stuff. Unless someone's a creep and uses a 3rd-party app/jailbreak to save peoples' stuff without them knowing.
I don't use the app but from what I read, you can switch to airplane mode to take a screen cap. The drawback as I understand it is that the sender won't be notified that you've read their message and they could grow suspicious? Crazy app.
 
I don't use the app but from what I read, you can switch to airplane mode to take a screen cap. The drawback as I understand it is that the sender won't be notified that you've read their message and they could grow suspicious? Crazy app.

That loophole was addressed and fixed in an update by Snapchat almost a year ago, but yes, at one time that was possible.
 
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