My account seems to be in some sort of A/B experiment that is aggressively optimizing my pictures to the point stair-stepping is now clearly visible. I think it’s a low-bandwidth mode or something, and started happening as of early March.
Take a look at the two images I included in the post: one is taken from my primary account that shows this aggressive new optimization and another of the very same picture uploaded from my alt account.
The pic from my primary account shows nasty stair stepping, whereas the pic from the alt account looks normal and has clean lines.
I’ve tried posting from every combination of device, account, iOS version, and network connection (wifi vs. cellular), and the common thread is my account.
Has anyone noticed this happening on their accounts recently?
Seems to be a split test that IG put accounts into. For what it’s worth, my primary account is now back to being fine after two months of that behavior. Another account I follow exhibited this problem for a couple of weeks, reverted back to normal at that same time that my primary account did, but is now back to uploading low quality pics again.
Not sure what’s going on. My guess is IG is testing a new compression algorithm to see how aggressive they can go while still not affecting people’s engagement patterns.
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My account seems to be in some sort of A/B experiment that is aggressively optimizing my pictures to the point stair-stepping is now clearly visible. I think it’s a low-bandwidth mode or something, and started happening as of early March.
Take a look at the two images I included in the post: one is taken from my primary account that shows this aggressive new optimization and another of the very same picture uploaded from my alt account.
The pic from my primary account shows nasty stair stepping, whereas the pic from the alt account looks normal and has clean lines.
I’ve tried posting from every combination of device, account, iOS version, and network connection (wifi vs. cellular), and the common thread is my account.
Has anyone noticed this happening on their accounts recently?
I have this issue on my personal account. On my art account it's working fine. I don't understand. I can't fix it
Seems to be a split test that IG put accounts into. For what it’s worth, my primary account is now back to being fine after two months of that behavior. Another account I follow exhibited this problem for a couple of weeks, reverted back to normal at that same time that my primary account did, but is now back to uploading low quality pics again.
Not sure what’s going on. My guess is IG is testing a new compression algorithm to see how aggressive they can go while still not affecting people’s engagement patterns.