[HN Gopher] Snapchat for Web
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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.
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