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Snapchat Is Considering Permanent Snaps (reuters.com)
Snapchat is considering changes to its Snapchat app, know for disappearing photos and videos, that could make users' public posts longer lasting or permanent. The company is also weighing an option to reveal the identities of Snapchat users who make public posts. Reuters reports: Together the changes would mark a big step in Snap's effort to lure and keep users by making content shared publicly via the "Our Story" section, more available outside Snapchat. They could also create a new revenue source for money-losing Snap, which has seen its user base shrink and executives flee the company. But such changes to Snapchat, which launched in 2011 and became an instant hit among teenagers and millennials, could trigger backlash from users who cherish their privacy, especially as rival Facebook has been plagued by scandals over how it handles user data. Snap is carefully weighing the privacy, technical and legal considerations of revealing user identities on public posts, said the person familiar with Snap's plans.
Only Snapchat photo and video content shared to "Our Story," which shares the snaps publicly to a wider audience and not just a user's friends, would be affected and users would still have the option of deleting those stories, said the person. Snap has already extended the shelf life of public stories, but making them last even longer or revealing more about the users who create them would be a further departure from Snapchat's hallmark features.
Only Snapchat photo and video content shared to "Our Story," which shares the snaps publicly to a wider audience and not just a user's friends, would be affected and users would still have the option of deleting those stories, said the person. Snap has already extended the shelf life of public stories, but making them last even longer or revealing more about the users who create them would be a further departure from Snapchat's hallmark features.
Your snaps disappear, or do they last forever? Which has the worst case scenario?
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Mueller Ain't Going Anywhere
They're called screenshots.
Well, Mueller won't be going ANYWHERE after he has been hanged for high crimes.
Snapchat is considering making their private, permanent archives of everyone's old snaps public and official.
#DeleteChrome
If they only last until Snap Inc goes bankrupt, I wouldn't exactly call that 'permanent'
Trump will either slowly rot in prison, or die quickly by Vladimir Putin's bullet (or worse).
Leftard fantasy is delicious. Your tears are orgasmic. Please keep up the raving.
Vladimir Putin is a murderous criminal thug, you should know that already and probably personally. Trump should kill Vladimir Putin first.
Such Innovation!
A photo sharing site that doesn't delete the photos. If only I had thought of that, I could be a billionaire!
Hooray, you just invented a free image hosting service like Imgur or Dropbox or TinyPic or Flickr or SmugMug, etc etc.
Take a bow and go home early, boys!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
"aid the person."
Oh good, a person said it. I guess that's one job that hasn't been taken by a robot. Maybe I want to know who said it. Maybe being taken seriously as an "editor" requires actually editing? How in fuck does anyone ever get another job after being an "editor" on slashdot and proving conclusively that they have no work ethic whatever?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
By considering permanent Snaps, SnapChat considering becomes a walking, talking contradiction.
Thus joining the club that includes:
- military intelligence;
- postal service;
- government worker;
- jumbo shrimp.
Really, who asks the following question: "I need a guaranteed temporary messaging service, one in which the messages can last forever"?
They are also considering a pivot into the burgeoning food delivery space, and possibly an initiative to market pet products online.