I have come to hate Instagram. It was such a cool thing when it was first released. It caught on so fast. I enjoyed it mostly for its ability to repost things onto different sites, but it worked well and it made me happy.

Then it went to crap. I’ve deleted it a couple of times. I keep going back to give it another try, but it keeps pissing me off. Forget the spam, forget the begging for hits, forget the way people try to use it like Facebook, forget the way they turned off their Twitter integration, forget the whole Facebook purchase and take over. The thing that pisses me off to know end is the way the interface itself keeps screwing up on me.

It’s built to run on touch screens. Why then does it mistake my scrolling gesture for a double tap? No, asshole, I didn’t just mark that photo as a favorite, I wanted to scroll passed it! One swipe is about as far removed from a double tap as you can get on a touch screen, yet I just fav’d a bunch of pictures as I was scrolling passed them! Scrolling passed is the opposite of Fav’ing! Scrolling means I DON’T want to see it again!

I deleted yet another account (my third, I think) and deleted the app yet again.

Hipstamatic’s answer to Instagram is Oggl. It has the huge downsides of not having anyone I know using it, and it crashes a lot. A LOT. It’s still better than Instagram. Socially speaking I use it the way I use Flickr these days. That means I follow every account I see but if I see anything remotely NSFW from anyone I follow they get axed. I guess you are innocent until proven guilty. Most folks seem okay though. I just wish it wouldn’t crash so much.