This month, the app began testing a radical change to its homepage where regular posts are displayed. TikTok-like scrolling and many more suggestions from the normal ones. No one liked it and the app will disable the changes, at least for now.

Changes rarely win users over, but Instagram’s recent changes seem to have gone too far. Adam Mosseri of Instagram confirmed this. feeding will be restored because the redesign was “annoying users and usage data was not very good”.

Until next time Instagram “tiktotikation”

Meta in general and Instagram in particular always tends to experiment with changes, and some go well and others don’t. The combination of some of these changes didn’t go particularly well, and Instagram has decided get back to them After receiving complaints from many users, including influencers like Kim Kardashian.

Probably the change that ignited the fuse was radical. immersive homepage redesignAs with TikTok, it replaces the app’s typical swipe gestures to scroll through the next content. It’s not available to all users yet, but those who have tried it (including me) have had enough: it works really badly, it’s frustrating to use, and it doesn’t offer any advantage over previous scrolling.

We now know that complaints are not isolated, but supported by numbers. Adam Mosseri commented in an interview with The Verge:people are angry [con los nuevos diseños] and usage data is not good.” With that in mind, the app will be withdrawn in the coming weeks, disabling this immersive redesign for those who still have it.

On the other hand, Instagram reduce suggestions The number of posts from people we don’t follow, without giving specific numbers. Of course, this reduction will be temporary as the company tries to improve its customization tools. The idea is that when a user is shown a suggestion it would be something really interesting, something Mosseri said is “not happening right now”.

via | Boundary