Another one for the graveyard:
Quote:YouTube is getting rid of Stories, a feature for temporary posts, beginning in June. Users won’t be able to post Stories starting June 26th, and existing posts will expire after seven days.
I personally detest Instagram Stories, but there's a lot about their implementation I think has value specifically for children using the platforms: you can see who's seen your Story, and you can set it to disappear; increasingly few internet services are intentionally self-destructive now, they merely pretend they'll hold on to all of your data forever until they change their mind about it (and then probably keep a lot of it anyway).
Either way, even if I didn't like it, there's people who probably did. And they made such a big deal out of having these features, it's also a blow to trust to just randomly pull them.
On the flipside, this made me laugh:
Quote:Though many platforms have adopted the story format first popularized by Snapchat, YouTube isn’t the first to axe its version. Remember Fleets, the ephemeral posts on Twitter that were gone within a year?
Fleets were AWFUL. I only saw them getting used for the dumbest shit and I was glad when they were gone.
I guess I should make my Twitter thread... but until then: Fleets would tell you which locked accounts had viewed your, uh, Fleet. Again, probably good for kids, but NIGHTMARISH for the average Twitter gossip addict.
(I also thought they had been added in late 2021, for some reason. They were a late 2020 addition.)