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Did they just go login only, to see content? No very powerful for me.

Also, maybe someone can explain to me why IG displays so much hate for the user through the UX?

- Fixed res images. If you dive into the JS, the full resolution is actually present, but the UI scales it tiny with no way to see more. It's almost harder to hide this than to just allow it.

- Similarly video. No controls, can't pause or scrub or gosh forbid, closed captions.

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It's an "experience" designed by designers, not a power user tool.

Yeah, I really have to agree with this. Working with designers and PMs in my day job makes it clear that there's an experience put together on Instagram and it's not some Flickr alternative. Things are made to be fixed res and laid out as so by design.

An experience designed by designers that was then put through the wringer so that it accomplished marketing and business needs initially not present. Rarely do designs not change as they move through the development/deployment pipeline.

Then designs are iterated in search of better or higher X, for whatever X business is optimizing for at that time.

Like reddit, the website is made awful to encourage you to use the app; you can pinch-zoom images on the app. Or, like us, DOM inspector -> delete empty element over image -> right-click open in new window.

Btw imgur doesn't allow me to Display Pictures in full size, are they doing the same abominable game to trick me into their App?

At least imgur has not disabled right-click View Image like IG went out of their way to do. You can get it that way on imgur.

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