Instagram launched a web-based interface on Tuesday that largely mirrors its mobile app, allowing users to log in from a browser to view and interact with photos from people in your feed. It’s a big move from the company that grew to prominence as a mobile-only social network.
Although Instagram had previously launched web profiles for its users and did give people the ability to interact with others’ photos on the web, it had not offered a way to log in and browse your network’s photo stream in the same way you can within the app. As of today it offers that same experience on the web.
While the ability to interact and view a feed from the desktop is great, it’s also a bit puzzlingly put together. The linear experience of vertical photos presented one at a time doesn’t work nearly as well on the web as it does mobile. It means there’s a lot of wasted space on either side of the image. Meanwhile, for a single image, the photos themselves are quite small. It would be great to see them either blown up, or tiled, to make better use of the desktop screen.
Mat Honan is a senior writer for Wired's Gadget Lab and the co-founder of the Knight-Batten award-winning Longshot magazine.
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