{"id":454538,"date":"2022-07-29T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T10:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=454538"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T10:38:39","slug":"instagram-backtracks-on-major-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/454538-instagram-backtracks-on-major-changes.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram backtracks on major changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram is rethinking some of the major changes it made to its platform last month following significant criticism from its users, according to a Platformer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformer.news\/p\/-instagram-walks-back-its-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The social media platform has been testing new content recommendations and a full-screen display for videos and images, much to the displeasure of some of its users.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed that the test would end in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the new feed designs, people are frustrated and the usage data isn&#8217;t great,&#8221; Platformer quoted Mosseri as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So there I think that we need to take a big step back, regroup and figure out how we want to move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the recommended content changes, Mosseri said Instagram would reduce the amount of material pushed to its users, at least for a while.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the intention was for users to discover new content they otherwise wouldn&#8217;t have seen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should be delighted to see it. And I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s happening enough right now,&#8221; Mosseri said.<\/p>\n<p>The Instagram head acknowledged that the full-screen design wasn&#8217;t good and required more work but noted that a shift to a video-focused platform was inevitable.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/454386-starlink-wants-to-offer-mobile-broadband-via-its-satellites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starlink wants to offer mobile broadband via its satellites<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram will wind down its testing of the new features over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":416386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[72414,161,10424,73842,59100],"class_list":["post-454538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-adam-mosseri","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-meta-platforms","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454596,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454538\/revisions\/454596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}