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A comment on Ask HN: Why is the Instagram desktop website so unreliable?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is the Instagram desktop website so unreliable? by pxska on Sunday March 20, 2022 @01:13PM (#30744467)
Just my two cents on the topic, but I'm guessing that Instagram was never really mean't to be used on desktop – it was developed mobile-first and just ported to desktop when there was a bigger demand for it.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Instagram desktop website so unreliable? by ent101 on Sunday March 20, 2022 @01:21PM (#30744536)
These seem to be backend issues though.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Instagram desktop website so unreliable? by masterchief1s1k on Sunday March 20, 2022 @01:24PM (#30744569)
I would think that since most of their content (photos, stories,..) are optimized for mobile screen size only.

So if their infrastructure doesn't consider much for responsiveness between multiple screen size, I doubt the backend for the web version matter much for them.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Instagram desktop website so unreliable? by a-dub on Sunday March 20, 2022 @02:15PM (#30745104)
this seems right to me. i'd guess a majority of their traffic is mobile, so that's where they invest the most resources.
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