Instagram Reintroducing Chronological Feed Option in 2022

[bwhitta]

iPadOS app or GTFO.

 

[DanteHicks79]

"in the works for months"... This used to be the way the feed was. Why does this have to take a long time, as if it's a new feature?

My guess is they threw out the chrono timeline code, and by the time they realized that was stupid, all of the coders who wrote it originally were gone, and they had zero documentation on prior versions, because most companies aren't far-sighted enough to take into account retaining legacy info/data

 

[SactoGuy18]

They should have done this at least a couple of years ago. That way, I won't have to ridiculously scroll up and down the feed to find the posting(s).

 

[svish]

This is a very welcome change.

 

[LDN]

"We're currently working on a version of a chronological feed that we hope to launch next year,"

What is there to 'work' on exactly? From a programming perspective, this is trivial. Just put posts on the timeline from the accounts you follow in the order they were uploaded. Extremely simple. Its this current thing they're doing now that can have some work involved, as there's obviously various things at play.

 

[routine_analyst]

About time.

Pun intended.

 

[eyeseeyou]

"in the works for months"... This used to be the way the feed was. Why does this have to take a long time, as if it's a new feature?

EXACTLY. This isn't a new feature. Just turn the toggle back on in the back end.

 

[Janschi]

Too bad that I don't use social networks like that anymore. I deleted all the apps, will redownload if I need to check something important and delete again.

 

[Premium1]

"We made the instagram feed really ****** for the past 5 years, but now we are going to introduce you to the way it used to be, you know, before we made it ****** 5 years ago."

Same thing apple did with their macbook line. Take everything away then give it back so they can say, see we made it better! lol