[HN Gopher] Snapchat for Web ___________________________________________________________________ Snapchat for Web Author : tech234a Score : 34 points Date : 2022-07-18 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (newsroom.snap.com) (TXT) w3m dump (newsroom.snap.com) | rvz wrote: | > Everyday 332 million people open Snapchat on their phones, and | with our camera, can start conversations with their real friends. | Today, we're introducing Snapchat for Web, a new way for our | community to stay connected through our camera when they're at | their computers. | | > Open your laptop and head to web.snapchat.com using Chrome to | start a call or pick up where chats left off on mobile. | | And those 332 million people are being told to use Chrome and not | Firefox. Indicating that Firefox has become totally irrelevant. | EpicBlackCrayon wrote: | Yup, they may add support for Safari and call it a day. | Hopefully they don't treat Firefox the same way they treated | Windows Phone. | solarkraft wrote: | Well that's cool for users with rooted Android devices, which are | currently blocked from logging in with an obscure error message. | noname120 wrote: | Just root with Magisk and add the app to the DenyList. Poof. | thtpol wrote: | It's not meant for mobile phones (who can install the Snapchat | app already), clearly targeted for desktop users as a companion | app | metadat wrote: | I wouldn't normally bring this up but in this case it's a | significant oversight: Did you read the comment you've | replied to? | | Grandparent comment explicitly states a rooted android phone | cannot install the Snapchat app. | | Snap has ensured it cannot work on a rooted device (as bank | apps also do) to make it difficult to mess with the binary | and end up saving or harvesting temporarily viewable content | like snaps of genitalia or whatever people use snap for. | js4ever wrote: | I was interested by a web version few years ago... Now I think | it's too late, I lost all imterest/curiosity for it. | flawn wrote: | They do everything but release a DAMN DARK MODE for Android | makerofspoons wrote: | Now that they have a web client they should consider making an | official Tor service like Facebook and Twitter have. It has been | used for activism in the past. | agluszak wrote: | I don't know if that's irony, but do you really think that | putting a service which cannot be trusted on Tor makes it | trustworthy? | makerofspoons wrote: | No, but there is a use case for people whose threat model | allows for identifying themselves to Snapchat but not for | being identified by their ISP or government. Access has also | been blocked in various countries over the years and a Tor | service restores access. | foxfired wrote: | This is a reminder that technology isn't the issue anymore. (we | solved messaging since the AIM days). The only thing slowing down | technology today is wall gardens. | | You can't count how many years too late Snapchat is. Even if you | use both hands. | fariszr wrote: | > The only thing slowing down technology today is wall gardens. | | Hopefully with the EU's DMA this will change. | erulabs wrote: | Good for Snap. I suspect this won't move the needle on young | users - but I suspect it will probably help them recruit old | sysadmins like myself. It's a sign of a still-directed-by- | instinct and not KPI-uber-alles, which makes me happy to hold on | to SNAP. | esoltys wrote: | "Snapchat for Web is available to Snapchat+ subscribers now in | the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, and Snapchatters | across Australia, and New Zealand. We can't wait to bring it to | our entire global community soon." | nikolay wrote: | They indirectly make early adopters upgrade to Snap+ just to see | that it's still not available! | rgrieselhuber wrote: | Totally forgot about snapchat | rndmind wrote: | Such insight... | agluszak wrote: | Isn't that a bit... too late? | josephcsible wrote: | Will they permaban your account if you use this without first | uninstalling your adblocker, under their "no modified clients" | rule? | ramoz wrote: | I think this is still relevant for young people. I.e. graduating | college and wanting to retain your popularity & digital social | life as you work your 9-5 on a company computer . | solarkraft wrote: | Ah, Snap loves being weird for the sake of being weird. Snapchat | was a constant struggle for me (Gen Z) to operate before I | stopped using it. The latest reminder for how hip and weird they | are (in their world): The text "web.snapchat.com" is blue, | underlined ... but not actually a clickable link. How cute, | quirky and hip! The youngsters will love it. | m348e912 wrote: | >> Snapchat was a constant struggle for me (Gen Z) to operate | before I stopped using it I am not gen z but I struggled with | the anti-intuitive and weird interface. I grant that its | quirkiness may be part of its appeal and the kids seem to love | it. Could you not open in active camera mode though? That was | just one annoying feature, I could list the things that just | drove me bonkers. | dmix wrote: | The url works in Firefox, it might not in other browsers | because they nested bold and underline tags: | <a href="https://web.snapchat.com/"><b><u>web.snapchat.com</u>< | /b></a> | | (as the other person mentioned probably because they used a | rich text editor). | jmathai wrote: | There _is_ an anchor around the domain text - just missing an | href attribute. Probably due to the rich text editor used to | draft the blog post. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-18 23:00 UTC)