I was wondering if it's just me. I am using Brave on iOS with all the possible blockers enabled, so I'm not surprised when some website doesn't work well. Instagram literally freezes solid after 5-15s of being on the website, so I usually only quickly scan the top 2-3 posts in the feed. I only follow people I know personally, so this is usually enough to do once or twice a day and stay up to date. If I see a close friend posted a story I kinda want to see then it usually takes two or three hard closes of the browser to actually see it. Sucks, but sucks less than being mental gamed into doomscrolling every time I get an app notification.

By the stopwatch it takes 3x longer for me to upload a photo to the Instagram web app than it does to Mastodon. Facebook's blue website works pretty well but the Instagram site comes across like something that was vibe coded in a weekend or maybe a straw man that was made to prove SPAs are bad. Contrast that to the Mastodon application produced by a basically unfunded application that's fast and reliable.

Just hours ago I couldn't even copy-paste a description of a post I drafted in another app. Literally nothing happened when I tried to paste. No console errors, no feedback, nothing.

It was a bit of a longer one, but still far below Instagram's supposed character limit. The fact that they somehow broke copy-paste functionality really baffles me.

Yep. Either it’s actually that bad or it’s just purposefully hampered. Same end user experience either way.

Surely at some point some team that writes this has to demo it and someone checks it. After however many years of it not working, surely that's strategic, not accidental.

It's such a pervasive pattern and somehow always in the direction: the app works better than the website. If there even is a website.

Sometimes it goes the other way, in fact enough it's a running gag that the banner that says "Download our app for a better experience" at sites like Reddit ought to have one of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poop_emoji

I would say use flickr, but that's shitified now.

Oddly effectively because I end up using it less in general

Exactly - me too. But infuriating when I try.

When someone sends me an Instagram link I edit to imginn.com instead.