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Wish it had worked out lol

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they just added "stories" aka "how do i get rid of this big fucking stupid bar"

i don't understand the appeal of this feature and don't even know where it originates. i certainly don't know why it's in an IM thing

i think the idea of the 'story' is rooted in snapchat, for which this was literally its gimmick. which like. isn't that literally the furthest thing from telegram. this just seems like the single most nonsensical addition i thought this was a private instant messaging service not a fucking scroll-through social media deal, the only format where this whole story shit makes even a little sense,

you can just hold down (or rmb) on the story circle for any given person and tap “hide stories”. i do this for everybody who posts at least one story. they (user’s stories) just disappear after that and never bother you again.

i don’t get the appeal either, but there are definitely people who want these things from private IM services they trust instead of adversarial data hoarders. so i don’t think it’s really an IM thing, just a social network thing that’s been put in private IM apps since properly private social networks don’t or can’t exist (depending on who you ask). Signal added stories because it was so highly requested, but they also added an option to disable the stories feature completely because they knew some circles of users would never want to use it.

i barely even understand what it is or what the usecase is, and every time it's introduced it's just sort of assumed that of course i used snapchat

if it's a broadcast thing then that's still weird to put in IM and yet is less weird than adding as a separate feature to twitter, which was all broadcast

but then why only broadcast in this one specific format that just feels awful to interact with. even in their very fancy announcement demo i don't understand the controls and feel like i've fallen into a tarpit

oh of course it feels awful to interact with, because everyone’s copied the experience from Snapchat because of its success. said success baffles me because trying to use Snapchat was the single worst UI experience i have ever had in my life. (a friend insisted i had to get it. i think i lasted 2 weeks.)