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by timfletcher 5001 days ago
OP here. Just to flesh out why Monogram is better than your average Instagram gallery, we import all of the images to our db and allow users to create galleries from any of those images.

If you have a cool photo you took a year ago and one from yesterday then you can easily add these to the same portfolio. You can also filter by your most liked and most commented photos.

These are features not available through the Instagram API so we built them and we think it's pretty cool. We also periodically refresh the images to keep their comment/like counts up to date and use the realtime API to pull in new additions.

Any feedback welcome!

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Hey this is really great!

Just one nitpick, if I click on view on Instagram could you automatically open it in a new tab? I guess that wouldn't be the best action for mobile or tablet viewing, but on my desktop browser I prefer it.

Also part of the loading circle on Chrome/Win 8 isn't visible.

Good stuff!

We generally feel that a window should only open in a new tab if the user explicity desires that action and we don't want to make that decision for them. We'd expect them do it via a Ctrl/Cmd click on the link.

We'll check into the loading gif.

Thanks!