 So when you tap on a Story, before it loads you are shown a warning that indicates that the Story author will see that you viewed it. Story authors will be able to see who viewed, and this is a fair compromise for Follower-only Stories. For Public Stories, I'm debating logging views as the context isn't as meaningful. 10 comments
 dansup, then make it a setting (always/when directly linked/never). I imagine these warnings will get annoying fast. I expect you're still going to capture the count of views, even if not the users who viewed in that case? @christo Not for public stories as they can be viewed without being logged in, and to properly count those views we'd need to track guests via IP or fingerprints and I don't think it's worth it tbh. We don't want to emulate the privacy invasive tracking endemic in IG and other platforms. Does that sound fair? It does. I was just assuming the number of views would provide at least simple feedback on the popularity of a Story, although Boosts and Likes would be a better measure of that, likely.  |
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Instagram only does this when you open a story directly by its URL (e.g. someone sent you a link). This makes sense because you don't always know where links lead so the confirmation prevents any inadvertent exposure to the story author. But when you tap a story in the UI, it's a conscious action, you already know that you're opening a story and that doing so would expose you to its author.