Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first

Re:Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first by williamscales on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:05PM (#21225661)

The trick of properly applying operations to cached posts is cool. But the overall experience is bad. It's so frustrating to see an interesting post appear for a fraction of a second and then disappear. It would be far more usable to simply focus on getting fresh data as quickly as possible.

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Re:Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first by raiyu on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:14PM (#21225753)

That was a common complaint but the newest version doesn't do that anymore. Instead of immediately loading the new content, you instead get a little hover button at the top of the feed that says New Posts - that you now click to load the new content.

Because the old system was indeed super annoying, seeing something cool and then having it disappear in a long feed was annoying beyond belief.

It's a small change with the hover button, but one that is definitely a huge improvement. Sometimes the biggest UX changes are super minor - but their impact on a user's experience is massive.

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Re:Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first by ron0c on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:35PM (#21225949)

I was looking to make williamscales's very complaint as soon as I read this. Instagram's latest beta for Android 10 does not include this hover button.

Maybe iOS only for now.

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Re:Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first by raiyu on Friday October 11, 2019 @01:25PM (#21226481)

I'm using iOS and started seeing it pop up like 2-3 weeks ago.

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Re:Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first by nullandvoid on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:35PM (#21225954)

The same thing annoys me with youtube - notice something cool as you click something on the home page but then by the time you've clicked something and gone back its disappeared

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Re:Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first by FakeComments on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:51PM (#21226114)

This is made worse by the mobile experience of having every part of the page be some kind of button.

80% of my clicks are my palm grazing the edge as I hold it or trying to scroll and accidentally clicking on some block element link that doesn’t stand out as a button.

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