Jacob Kastrenakes for The Verge:

Online harassment is a serious issue that any network needs to deal with, period. And flexible tools like a custom banned word list can let individual users take matters into their own hands to clear up their comments section, should someone begin posting hateful or otherwise offensive or tasteless remarks.

In my experience as a single white male, the harassment on Instagram is far less frequent than on other social networks. That said, it’s a smart move by the company to get these sorts of things in place before issues get completely out of control.

Chance Miller for 9to5Mac:

Instagram, following the controversial announcement that it would change the order in which images appear in user feeds, now appears to be testing a complete redesign of its app.

I really like the direction they’re (potentially) going with this. Flushing the colour out of the app UI and really letting the pictures come to life and take centre stage. I haven’t always been the biggest fan of Instagram but it’s thoughtful, smart updates like this, rather than a couple new filters every few months, that would make me actually start using it again on a regular basis.

Who knows, maybe we’ll finally get a new iOS icon out of this too.