> They're a good way to give life status updates to a lot of friends at once, and provides a good conversation starter.
I've found with experience that whenever you share something, it needs to be deliberate to chosen people, otherwise it deteriorates into popularity seeking and least-common-denominator feel good spam. I much more prefer the "take photo/video or find a meme, send to specific people each time" flow. With snap, it takes a few seconds to choose, because contacts are sorted by recency. This is the only part of snap I'm using, and it existed before stories.
Signal ended up somewhere inbetween, where you have to create a story (an imo unnecessary layer of i direction) and then add people to the story, which is minor from a tech perspective but huge issue for UX. It increases the friction for this flow.
I've found with experience that whenever you share something, it needs to be deliberate to chosen people, otherwise it deteriorates into popularity seeking and least-common-denominator feel good spam. I much more prefer the "take photo/video or find a meme, send to specific people each time" flow. With snap, it takes a few seconds to choose, because contacts are sorted by recency. This is the only part of snap I'm using, and it existed before stories.
Signal ended up somewhere inbetween, where you have to create a story (an imo unnecessary layer of i direction) and then add people to the story, which is minor from a tech perspective but huge issue for UX. It increases the friction for this flow.