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Instagram Reintroducing Chronological Feed Option in 2022
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Totally. So many things have been ruined over the years by feature creep.
“Let’s throw the kitchen sink at it and see what sticks”.
Tech “news” sites often use ‘finally’ in their clickbait headlines completely unnecessarily.
This particular story actually warrants the ‘finally’, but it wasn’t used!
It's about time. Is it just me, or has it been getting worse lately? It seems that if I scroll past a post without pausing on it, it shows up multiple times.
It's also unbelievable to me that this takes any time to implement at all. Anyone with even the most basic experience with SQL could do this in minutes.
I enjoy the content I see on IG, but I absolutely HATE the way I'm forced to see it. Even if they eventually make this feature available (I'll believe it when I see it), I get the feeling it's going to suck somehow. And I'm 100% certain they will still refuse to implement a bookmark type feature so you can resume your place in the timeline when the app is kicked out of memory, so you'll be forced to start with the newest image posted and have to scroll your way back down. When will they realize that the order in which content is displayed MATTERS?! Some posts make no sense unless you've seen the previous one. I'm angry just thinking about how much it sucks!
It's also unbelievable to me that this takes any time to implement at all. Anyone with even the most basic experience with SQL could do this in minutes.
I enjoy the content I see on IG, but I absolutely HATE the way I'm forced to see it. Even if they eventually make this feature available (I'll believe it when I see it), I get the feeling it's going to suck somehow. And I'm 100% certain they will still refuse to implement a bookmark type feature so you can resume your place in the timeline when the app is kicked out of memory, so you'll be forced to start with the newest image posted and have to scroll your way back down. When will they realize that the order in which content is displayed MATTERS?! Some posts make no sense unless you've seen the previous one. I'm angry just thinking about how much it sucks!
Yep, it's a change more or less requiring a single line of code changing the sort criteria.
"in the works for months..." actually means "putting it off for as long as we can get away with..." Obviously because the current algorithm feeds people what they are most interested in, thus keeping them on the platform for as long as possible, thus maximising the revenue. Change it to chronological, and they will quickly get bored, and leave. Simple concept.
It’s been years since they ditched it they forgot how it works
Such a feature has apparently been in the works "for months" with Instagram targeting a launch in the first quarter of 2022.
Feature? This is so basic that I’m not sure it warrants being called a feature. But we all know this is about algorithms and ads.
Feature? This is so basic that I’m not sure it warrants being called a feature. But we all know this is about algorithms and ads.
There’s a bad word in arabic that almost rhymes with Meta. I refer to it as that.
It takes a long time to type 'order by date_posted desc'.
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Wow, quite the development team. They’ve been spending months to figure out how to sort posts by date…
tis' very hard to afford useability to the user whilst retaining the most holy, profitability.
Nah. I’m good. I ditched Instagram because of the change and now realize my life is better for it.
Businesses that only 6 years ago were scrambling to hire social media experts fluent in Instagram, are now hiring/contracting/retraining social media experts fluent in TikTok. Instagram will soon become an afterthought where people upload videos made for TikTok as a "reel" before it becomes forgotten entirely--should it continue with this terrible management style.
They're not "incompetent." They've carefully weighed and tested exactly how much more they can keep people hooked into an algorithmically-driven feed, and how much more revenue that delivers them. It was taken away for a reason, and if I had to guess they're putting it back because 1) they're starting to get a lot more scutiny of their business practices and their platform's effects on users and 2) they may be going the route of Twitter and offering chronological feed as an option, calculating that a lot of people just won't bother changing views.
I don't know what was the version prior to Instagram Reels but most of them are with Tiktok watermarks... Very few Instagram originals and mostly re-upload taken from Tiktok...
I'm not sure if the Facebook Newsfeed counterpart of Instagram that I am seeing is algorithm based rather than chronological... I follow around 30 people and just a few show up, mostly the celebrities/actresses that almost everyday post a picture/video on their account...
I'm not sure if the Facebook Newsfeed counterpart of Instagram that I am seeing is algorithm based rather than chronological... I follow around 30 people and just a few show up, mostly the celebrities/actresses that almost everyday post a picture/video on their account...
I just need a favorites feed at this point.
So i can turn off individual notifications
So i can turn off individual notifications
Charge a fee for no ads. WhatsApp used to be 99p a year after the first year, that alone would £2bn in revenue for doing nothing, and is an app that is so mature that very few people would complain about having to pay such an inconsequential amount.
Have an option to pay £2.99 or even £4.99 a year for ZERO ads in Instagram and I would be back into being fully submerged in it again. As it stands, I hate using it and I report every ad for being offensive just out of spite.
Same, then I got fed up them completely and just deleted the app. I don’t miss it.
I see many here say they have deleted a certain social media app, but the thing is, did you delete your account first before deleting the app or you just thought deleting the app deletes your account?
I have a Facebook account back in 2009 that I have deactivated and I think I changed the email to a dummy/throwaway one and at the time I did not know whether there was a way to delete the account or not and I'm not sure if Facebook now Meta deletes accounts that have been inactive for a certain period of time but I guess not since it is a data source for them...
I am not sure how many accounts I have left deactivated but since then the new accounts I have created once I no longer want to use them I make sure to delete first before completely transitioning to the new one...
I just joined Instagram in 2020 even though I have owned a smartphone since 2016... I re-joined Twitter in 2020 since deleting the last account in 2015/2016... I used to put as many information on my Facebook account back then but the one I have created just a few months ago only has a profile picture and cover photo in it... I still keep going back to Facebook since most people I know even work colleagues use it for communication even though I no longer find it as useful/interesting compared to before...
Even if this was a new feature, I don't understand what would be so hard to implement (full disclosure I have no experience in writing software). It's just sorting by the most recent posts from the people you follow, seems like this should be incredibly easy to do.
Nah, I’m not that stupid to think deleting the app deletes the account. 😉
Deleting the app just stops the “temptation” of using it and being sucked back in, that’s all. It also means they have one less active user. 😂