Snapchat Petition Attracts One Million Signatures (bbc.com)

One million people have signed a petition calling on Snapchat to roll back its latest redesign. From a report: The changes were intended to separate interactions with friends from branded content -- including that of celebrities and influencers. Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel wrote in a blog post that he believed blurring the two had contributed to the rise of fake news. However, thousands of Snapchat users say that the new layout is hard to use. Nic Rumsey, who set up the petition, wrote that some are using Virtual Private Network (VPN) apps -- which use servers abroad to mask the location of a device -- in order to access the older version of the platform: "That's how annoying this update has become," he said. "Many 'new features' are useless or defeat the original purposes Snapchat has had for the past years." The petition, posted on the change.org website, is one of several appealing to Snapchat to revert to its previous state.

Comments

Protocols not apps!

[TheRaven64]

When you have a single implementation of a protocol, some people are always going to hate it. When you have an open protocol with multiple client implementations, you can choose the UI that you like. I wish organisations like the EFF and FSF would spend a bit more of their marketing budget educating the general public on this. If there's only one implementation, particularly if it's closed source, then you're at the whims of whoever is responsible for it.

but but but

[Anonymous Coward]

How are the UX guys supposed to justify their jobs if they can't fuck up the interface every couple of weeks?

Re:Get over it

[I'm New Around Here]

The Microsoft Office ribbon still sucks.