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alttab · 2016-05-26 21:13:40+00:00

Fucking pissed me off to the max, actually. This week, they did X-Men lenses and REMOVED the face swap and picture swap features for the entire day. If I wanted to use lenses, it had to be X-Men for the whole day. What PM green-lit that shitty decision?

I closed Snapchat and didn't use it for the entire day. I'm boycotting the X-Men movie out of protest.

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giologist | karma 161 | avg karma 4.03 · | 2013-06-06 14:22:16

I deleted my SnapChat because of this.

josu | karma 3093 | avg karma 3.21 · | 2014-12-17 22:49:02

That wasn't Snapchat's fault, was it? AFAIK a third party was the one that messed up, or did I eat the Snapchat PR bullshit?

jerryszczerry | karma 46 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2017-04-18 19:28:14

How did they destroy Snapchat? By adding a couple of frames and overlays?

My mobile phone had that “feature” ten years ago already.

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PercussusVII | karma -6 | avg karma -0.67 · | 2016-09-24 16:37:48+00:00

Fuck off, Snapchat

SyzygistSix | karma 979 | avg karma 1.03 · | 2023-04-24 11:57:08

I support the removal of Snapchat.

jseaidou | karma 1 | avg karma 0.2 · | 2013-12-14 02:07:13+00:00

A big fuck you to Snapchat

doubt_me | karma 229 | avg karma 0.82 · | 2013-12-14 01:49:50

"fuck snapchat"

mooreds | karma 71202 | avg karma 3.68 · | 2016-05-05 11:38:49+00:00

I wrote a blog post about my experience with Snapchat. Not even being a creator, just a story consumer.

Watched some great thought provoking snaps. The fact that I could neither share the video nor watch the snaps on my own schedule drove me crazy.

So I deleted the app from my phone.

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alttab | karma 4172 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2014-07-01 18:25:01+00:00

The entire complaint is rather damning. This is something I would expect from the Snapchat guys, but wow.

muppetman | karma 2270 | avg karma 4.33 · | 2014-05-01 09:52:29+00:00

Don't you mean taking the snap out of snapchat?

lavezzi | karma 307 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2017-12-11 20:20:41+00:00

Will be annoyed if they break the feature inside Snapchat.

dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2016-05-12 02:44:59+00:00

If you have a substantive critique to make, you're welcome to make it, but this is the kind of comment HN can use none of, regardless of one's opinion about Snapchat.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678502 and marked it off-topic.

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iliaznk | karma 182 | avg karma 0.82 · | 2016-05-26 15:24:15+00:00

Looks like you're not a Snapchat user. It has turned into a media platform, not only messaging or image sharing.

jedberg | karma 72921 | avg karma 5.98 · | 2019-05-14 01:22:08+00:00

> Did you find the filters? You have to hold down on your face when the selfie camera is activated.

This right here is why I hate Snapchat. I've never seen a more unintuitive UI.

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ambicapter | karma 2208 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2017-02-10 18:27:00+00:00

> but will never use Snapchat as it is today.

Snapchat is completely covered in sponsored content now. Unless you have dozens of people you follow, ads make up the majority of the experience.

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JohnJamesRambo | karma 10641 | avg karma 4.05 · | 2017-04-18 00:39:11+00:00

I think their anger is very justified. And honestly they aren't missing out on much by boycotting Snapchat. There are lots of other ways to send nudes now.

Trillip | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2014-11-18 06:24:16+00:00

And... this is when Snapchat turned into MFC

malloreon | karma 2425 | avg karma 6.25 · | 2017-10-30 05:27:22+00:00

Snapchat is for selfies. you can't take selfies with your own glasses. That's why it failed.

1_2__3 | karma 1658 | avg karma 3.8 · | 2016-12-20 15:03:11+00:00

I for one am shocked - shocked! - that Snapchat would be the kind of company to be cavalier about this kind of thing.