What is it
Posted Instagram Russia (@instagramrussia)
Stories feature, or "Stories" in the Russian localization, allows you to create photo and 10-second video overlay text, emoji, and handwritten notes. A key feature of these posts is that, unlike conventional publications in the stream, they do not live forever and removed even after 24 hours.
why do I need
The official description of Instagram says that the new feature is not needed for the exchange of very important information about daily life.
All those home or enough good photos that you hesitate to lay out, no longer simply occupy memory. You will be able to share them with your friends without the risk of running into accusations: stories do not clutter up the tape, they are unobtrusive and can view them only one who wants to.
How to use it
At its core it is very similar to the innovation Snapchat and it works similarly, but with a few differences. Despite the fact that the opportunities for Instagram Stories are not so many and they are all very simple, with the move to deal with them is not that all users.
View stories
All the available stories are displayed in the upper portion of the tape in the form of circles with the avatars of users and hidden while scrolling. New stories appear as publications, and through the day disappear. When this history is not sorted in chronological order, and the number of cycles of reproduction and comments.
To view, simply tap on the circle. Open a photo or video to be displayed for 10 seconds. Tap retention suspends roller.
At the top, next to the user name, it shows the time of publication. If the people you follow, there are other stories, then after the first one will be shown immediately following. Switch between them, you can swipe left and right.
Stories that you have already viewed, do not disappear from the menu, and are marked in gray. They can be opened again until they are deleted after days.
Comment stories can only be by means of messages that are sent to the Direct and visible only to the author, not all subscribers. A bug or a feature, it is not known.
creation stories
Clicking on the plus sign at the top of the tape and swipe to the right opens a new story on the record menu screen. Here everything is simple: do tap on the record button - get the picture, hold it - remove the video.
Shooting or loading
It is possible to switch the front and rear chambers or include flash. It is also easy to choose a media file from those that have been removed in the last days: this is done swipe down. This includes all the photos of galleries, including boomerangs and branded taymlapsy Instagram.
Treatment
When photos or videos are ready, they can publish, pre-processed. And for the photo and video tools are the same: filters, text and emoji, drawings.
The filters are switched in a circle with simple swipe from the edge of the screen. A total of six, including rainbow gradient like on Instagram icon.
Added text can be increased or decreased, move the photo. But leave more comments, unfortunately, can not. Emoji is also inserted through the text, so if you want to close your face emoticon, will have to choose.
I draw a little more room. We have the whole palette and three brushes: plain, a marker and a "neon" stroke. You can immediately draw all the while bad bar can be canceled.
Satisfied with the result? Click the check mark and your clip will be available to subscribers. You can save it to the gallery as before and after.
Privacy settings, statistics
When the story was published, you can view it from the history menu, to hide from certain users, learn how many people have seen it and who it was.
Screen settings and statistics called swipe up while watching the story. From this story, you can save the gallery, delete or publish in the main belt, turning it into a normal recording. List audience appears below. Hide the story from any of them may be, if you click on the cross next to the name.
Settings that are hiding behind the gear icon, allow you to choose who can respond to your stories, and to hide the story from certain subscribers. At the same privacy settings are stored and used for all subsequent publications.
How to live with it
Fine. Yes, many took Stories in arms because of the similarity with Snapchat and Instagram unresolved issues, on which it would be necessary to focus developers. But I think innovation is helpful.
The problem of cluttered tape when it comes to unsubscribe from your friends, spread literally every step, there was a long time ago, and clearly her decision did not come up. Stories can be considered a first step towards this. Over time, people have to come to terms with the culture of behavior, the proposed InstagramAnd the beginning of Lent in the tape only really important and worthwhile content. Everything else should fall into Stories. It's true?