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Instagram to reinstate a feature that everyone misses

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Instagram says it’s planning to reinstate a feature it ditched five years ago that lets you view posts in chronological order.
Instagram says it’s bringing back the chronological feed so users can easily see the most recent posts first and in the order in which they were shared. The Facebook-owned company ditched the feature in 2016 in favor of an algorithm-generated feed, which surfaces posts that it thinks you’ll like most. The algorithmic feed will remain as an alternative viewing option, possibly with another style that it’s experimenting with called Favorites. Speaking at a Senate hearing on Wednesday that was mainly concerned with how Instagram plans to improve the safety and wellbeing of its younger users, boss Adam Mosseri said: “We’re currently working on a version of a chronological feed that we hope to launch next year.” A tweet posted later by the company’s Comms account elaborated, saying that Instagram is working on introducing several new ways for people to view their feeds.

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