[vips7L]

I'm pretty sure for Instagram it's by design, not because of their technical stack.

[serial_dev]

Instagram web is so bad that it’s the only logical explanation.

[kridsdale1]

I have worked in the Instagram ios source. It is FUCKING AWFUL.

They’re impressive in their business success given their code quality.

[vips7L]

I don’t think I’ve ever worked anywhere that had decent code quality

[qingcharles]

There isn't even a real iPad app (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[swiftcoder]

Worth considering that this is an explicit business decision (not enough iPad users to justify the development effort), versus a technical one. There were various builds with proper iPad layout floating around internally, but no one ever got the management buy-in to polish it enough to ship.

[noveltyaccount]

They want you to use the app because it's harder to adblock in apps than on the web.