Instagram Updates

[Sushubh]

Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - A simple, fun & creative way to capture, edit & share photos, videos & messages with friends & family.

www.instagram.com

 

[Sushubh]

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[Toocool]

off topic-html5 youtube sucks................inspite of it having downloaded(buffered) the video , whenever i use scroll bar it stucks and download again.:iomg:

 

[Sushubh]

what has it got to do with instagram? 😕

 

[Toocool]

nothing sorry , pls delete my post

 

[dupree]

One of the best photo app for iPhone I have ever used, highly recommended.

 

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[moindear]

Started using it. It is indeed cool.

 

[Sushubh]

first impression? filters are cool. photo uploading is smooth. uploaded photo size? sucks. picplz uploads a much larger version that takes a lot more time. i guess you have to compromise somewhere.

 

[moindear]

It already crashed twice on my tab. May be would get a stable version soon!But hardly have any friends on instagram

 

[Sushubh]

seems to be rock stable at my end. have some friends on instagram. does not matter much. i was using picplz to share images, i can now use instagram. i liked picplz because it stored a copy on Dropbox (backup) but dropbox's own app now automatically backup photos and videos so that rocks for me.

 

[amar]

Downloading....

 

[Jaymin]

I tried this app, but the problem is that it asks me to crop the image.....is it not possible to share full size images?

 

[abchopra2010]

Nope. It wants to use a square picture and phones usually take pictures in rectangle shape. Thats why the crop.

 

[Jaymin]

Just for my curiosity - is there any rationale behind forcing users to share square images instead of the original ones?

 

[Sushubh]

i understand polaroid photos were mostly square in shape.



Instagram is based on the concept of polaroid cameras. Hence I guess the square photo push.

If you want to post original ones there are tons of apps out there.

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Instagram: At what point in Instagram's product development did square photos become the standard? - Quora

From day one. We realized that if we were going to do photos, that we'd have to be different and stand out. Square photos displayed really well in a feed format and frankly we just liked the aspect ratio better. It wasn't much more complex than that.