As with everything in life, the best way to use and enjoy a social media platform is to accept that it will inevitably change, usually for the worse. Whether you’ve outgrown early 2010s internet humor and finally moved away from Reddit, or found your favorite platform bought by a fascist billionaire and overrun by Nazis and bots, you can and shouldn’t let this change in platform, or itself, detract from your quality time. Conversely, striving for a return to that era is an equally foolish (and often reactionary) impulse.
All it can really do is acknowledge that top-down change in SF is being done by soulless algorithms and their even more soulless creators, and decide whether a platform’s shot of dopamine juice is still worth the squeeze.
Although Instagram is still second (or third). the largest social media platform The app has been in a precarious position for a few years now, in terms of its user base behind its Meta sister site Facebook (and WhatsApp, if you’re the weird type who thinks it’s social media). Users post fewer pictures these days 2025 led to a UI redesign priority reels and DMstwo characteristics that have driven the bulk of the company’s growth in recent years. Recently, their over-reliance on unreliable AI chatbots by hackers Steal more than 20,000 accounts with a password change request.
It’s this specific news that makes Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri’s post from yesterday all the more interesting. Last January, IG’s focus on Reels turned everyone’s grid of three stacked squares into three columns of stacked rectangles in one update. For many, the change was aesthetically pleasing and frustrating, but it wasn’t the worst thing they had to endure. But many of Instagram’s more design-conscious creators—many of whom spent countless hours turning their grid posts into a single macro image—crossed the line at image-altering formatting. Only with a title that says “Finally”. Mosseri’s writing announced to users that a fix for this problem has been teased all the way Back in January is finally live: users can now rearrange the posts in their network.
No longer tied to chronological order, those who want to mix things up can long-press on the grid post they want to move, then click “reorder land” in the menu options to move it to its new position. Remember to save those changes when you like the tweak better.
Since the grid is still all squares and shuffling tiles around doesn’t negate the crop carnage done by forced aspect ratio re-standardization, it’s a win, right? Soon, we’ll probably remember the days when we were limited to putting three posts at the top of our profile, as they say today, the early years of the app as strangely primitive, as oversaturation and annoying filters were applied with careless abandon.
