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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So it's just scaled up and they moved the bottom bar to the side? It took this long for that small of a change, and it still isn't even available for all devices?

WTF is going on with Meta's dev team? I realize coding is difficult, but this feels like something that they absolutely should have had operational and more widely-deployed a long time ago.

[–] regular_human 12 points 1 year ago

It's not an engineering hurdle, it's design and product at this point

[–] mrfriki 9 points 1 year ago

Lack of tablet version is a business decision. Yes, it hurts users, as most business decisions do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, Instagram doesn't even have a tablet layout for iPad

[–] Multech 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. RIP my iPad

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There will surely be a Vanced patch for it

[–] MakeItCount 11 points 1 year ago

also : Instander