| My early impressions: Interface is clean and easy to use/intuitive Not seeing an ad or sponsored posts every 2nd or 3rd story is refreshing, wondering how long that lasts No web app to boot ? Wtf disappointed no web ui yet but hoping that changes and changes soon Also no other way to login apart from instagram ? That’s strange , was hoping for standalone login , hoping it’s eventually rolled out No way to change username even after linking instagram username, this is imho a dumb move, I was late to the instagram party and missed out on shorter username and now was hoping joining threads early would help me get my desired username but alas I noticed the highlighted replies feature where celebrity replies are expanded below some threads , it’s probably a good feature just feel they could have a way of turning it off, I’d rather click into a story to surface those and maximize stories per page and reduce scrolling All in all seems like a decent twitter clone, and lots of features missing but definitely a good start. |
There is a 1:1 mapping of Instagram <-> Threads user names, so even if they let you change it in the app you wouldn't be able to get a shorter one if someone has already claimed it on Instagram.