I just tried. Why can't I upload shit from the website? I tried changing my user agent and clicking the new upload button that appeared and it didn't work (possibly because it was a video?)

What's the point of making a website if it's crippled compared to the mobile app?

To funnel people towards the native app with more analytics capabilities...

...I presume, at least.

Instagram web never allowed uploads.

If you really want to do Web uploads on Instagram, you can do it using Chrome.

When you're signed in to your account, right click the page > inspect. Then when the right side inspect panel opens, make sure "device tool bar" is toggled to show up (it's an option in the very top right, left of Elements, Console, Sources, etc).

Set the device options to responsive, something like 500x700 or whatever works for you. You can drag the dimensions on width. Then reload the page. It should retain the device dimensions choice and will show the mobile nav bar at the bottom that includes an upload button.

It does from iOS.

O.O

And it does. Even with Firefox dev tools set to iphone, it works.

This is plain ridiculous. And I've seen this sh*t before, with sentences like "Best viewed in IE5.5 800x600".

Can't reveal the exact numbers, but yeah - a lot of people use IG on web :) Mobile web was always the big focus for us though - most people assume its just a desktop only web version, but actually the mobile web version is much more fully featured than the desktop version.

I'm specifically asking about instagram staff because desktop instagram.com is embarrassingly buggy when it comes to basic core functionality such as the initial display of comments, and loading more comments using the plus symbol.

Since you're here, can I ask - is it intentional, when using IG on the web, if I click on a photo on someone's profile page, the comment section is auto-scrolled to the bottom instead of showing the description?

as a heavy desktop IG web user, this is a weird UX thing that bugs the crap out of me

I'm glad it's not just me!

Yep. So strange. Chromium 76.0.3809.100 on linux.

Please make the webpage a first-class citizen.

And, for that matter, permit hyperlinking in posts. It is the world wide web, not a strange aggregation of profile links.

not buggy but very unfriendly imo. i don't have an account but i have bookmarked a few. not sure if being logged in makes any difference but my pattern is: click on interesting post, scroll down the comments section, scroll all the way back up so i can click on the "+" sign to get more comments, scroll down to where i left, read some more, go back to the "+" sign, etc...

does not make any sense!

i mean, i put up with it because i don't have an account and well they can decide not to show unregistered people anyone's feed.