Facebook is playing pretty vicously - adding stories to three of its apps, when realistically the only app that is similar to snapchat is Instagram - but I'm happy for it either way.
Facebook apps do some stupid shit, like in Messenger, why the fuck does the back button take me into a camera looking at my ugly mug? Why does swiping down from the top to get to the top of my messages list sometimes again open a camera to my double chins? What in the shit is going on with the stupid circles smack-dab in the middle of my conversation history? And why on earth can't I swap the camera around mid-video in an instagram vid?
But it's nothing, nothing compared to the crime against humanity that is the Snapchat UX. It is an abomination, and a buggy one at that. I've heard it's at least more responsive on iPhone, fine. I've even heard arguments that it's esoteric on purpose - you have to be young and "with it" to "get it." Friends have to ask eachother "omg how did you do that filter" or whatever, which allows a moment of millenial smugness. Fine, that can be a reason, and we can lump it in amongst the thousands of other UX charges we should levy against Snapchat.
Facebook apps do some stupid shit, like in Messenger, why the fuck does the back button take me into a camera looking at my ugly mug? Why does swiping down from the top to get to the top of my messages list sometimes again open a camera to my double chins? What in the shit is going on with the stupid circles smack-dab in the middle of my conversation history? And why on earth can't I swap the camera around mid-video in an instagram vid?
But it's nothing, nothing compared to the crime against humanity that is the Snapchat UX. It is an abomination, and a buggy one at that. I've heard it's at least more responsive on iPhone, fine. I've even heard arguments that it's esoteric on purpose - you have to be young and "with it" to "get it." Friends have to ask eachother "omg how did you do that filter" or whatever, which allows a moment of millenial smugness. Fine, that can be a reason, and we can lump it in amongst the thousands of other UX charges we should levy against Snapchat.