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Your newsfeed is about to get back to its original pattern!
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced recently that the social networking service is working on new ways for users to sort their feeds — including the return of the chronological order.
"We’ve been experimenting with favorites, a way for you to decide whose posts you want to see higher up, and we’re working on another option to see posts from people you follow in chronological order," the official Instagram Comms Twitter stated.
The image-sharing platform originally displayed all posts in chronological order, however, by 2016, they altered the app to prioritise posts according to an algorithm.
The sudden change made by Instagram was widely criticised by users across the globe, especially when the news feed stopped showing the latest posts published on the platform but offered publications according to a user’s preferences.
Despite announcing the return of the chronological feed, the company made it clear that they will still keep the algorithm around, just in case some users have grown to like the system or just really dislike change in general.
The only change is that the algorithm system will no longer be mandatory. Instagram aims to offer different options on how to sort users' timeline, including prioritising more recent posts or posts from your favourite accounts.
"We want to be clear that we’re creating new options — providing people with more choices so they can decide what works best for them — not switching everyone back to a chronological feed," Instagram tweeted. "You can expect more on this early next year!" the company explained on Twitter.
It is not guaranteed for sure that the feature will arrive in early 2022, only that more information on it will be given.
But hey, either way, we have hope! We are one step closer to getting the feature that Instagrammers have been hoping to get back for a long time now.
Let us know, which system do you favor more on Instagram? Chronological or algorithm?
Info via Mashable SE Asia
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