• jungle
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    1511 months ago

    WhatsApp doesn’t have an inbox. What are they talking about!?

    • some pirate
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      411 months ago

      It has a feed now full of podcasters and tiktokers, the web version offers me to buy ads for the feed right in the front of the messages, every time I open it, disgusting

      • jungle
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        211 months ago

        I don’t see that. There’s no feed anywhere as far as I can tell. I just see my chats. I didn’t create any communities or join any channels. Is that where you see a feed?

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          It’s in the second tab, where stories are. Stories used to stay open, so you could easily see the ones you already watched. Now they disappear into a watched drawer that is by default closed. They need the space to show you channels, like the one of the owner Sugar mountain or random tiktokers.

          • @Asudox
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            11 months ago

            Whatsapp slowly transforms into instagram

          • jungle
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            111 months ago

            Are you sure you’re talking about WhatsApp? I don’t see stories anywhere. Never saw anything like that. Maybe you’re talking about Snapchat or Instagram or something else?

            • @[email protected]
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              211 months ago

              Either they haven’t rolled this out in your country yet, or you haven’t updated the app in a while.

              • jungle
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                211 months ago

                The app is up to date. Maybe you’re right and they only deployed this in some countries. How long ago did this show up for you?

                • @[email protected]
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                  111 months ago

                  I don’t use it myself, I’ve see it on a friends’ phone, so good question. Was a while ago though, a few months, maybe?

            • @[email protected]
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              11 months ago

              At least for me on android there are 4 Tabs. Community’s, chats, current updates, calls.

              Edit: I checked the translation.

              • jungle
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                11 months ago

                I have community, chat, updates, calls. None of them have anything related to stories or feeds.

                • @[email protected]
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                  111 months ago

                  Wrong translation on my side. Check the updates tab. On more recent versions you’ve got the “Status”, those are the stories people are talking about. Below that are the channels of influencers and other people I don’t care about.

                  • jungle
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                    111 months ago

                    Hmm. I see status updates but they are changes in people’s status, not stories, there’s only ever a handful of updates, and it just shows the names of the people who updated their WhatsApp status, which happens very rarely. There’s no feed there, nothing to scroll.

                    Below that I see Channels, a list of companies to follow, and an “explore more” button. Which I haven’t touched and don’t intend to. If that’s where the feed is… well, I don’t know what people expected, it’s obviously going to be corporate marketing.