If the furor that erupted over Instagram’s botched test this week that inadvertently became a wider update of the app taught us anything, it’s this. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing service would presumably never admit this, but the interest in exploring a limited experiment of replacing the vertical scrolling feed with a horizontal, Stories-like progression of content is no accident. The introduction of Stories has been a resounding success for Instagram, for all the reasons that are evident — everything from their ephemerality to the creativity they unleash in users via everything from GIFs to stickers, music and more.
All of which is to say: In all likelihood we got a taste of Instagram’s future this week, and maybe even a hint at why the app’s co-founders left abruptly under a bit of a cloud a few months ago. It’s quite possible, in other words, that the feed’s days are numbered. And it’s thanks to the fact that we all apparently love Stories too much. Which is another way of saying, we love swiping horizontally through Stories too much.
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Instagram’s horizontal swipe mess happened because everyone loves Stories so much originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 28 Dec 2018 at 13:33:36 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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