Oh.

Instagram briefly rolled out a new horizontal design today and everybodylost their minds.

The brief update saw the Instagram feed change to a design similar to Instagram stories, which saw users having to tap the screen to move to the next post rather than scrolling through the feed as usual.

Here’s a look at what the new feed looked like:

For those who missed it here’s what it looked like #instagramupdate pic.twitter.com/dg9t33PaOG

— Basma (@basmahxmde) December 27, 2018

Honestly, the phrase “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” has never been more relevant.

Back in October, TechCrunch revealed the social media platform were testing the tap-to-advance feed, however the new change came unexpectedly to users this morning.

Speaking to the New York Times, a spokesperson for Instagram assured that the sudden change was a mistake.

“Due to a bug, some users saw a change to the way their feed appears today,” the spokesperson said.

“We quickly fixed the issue and feed is back to normal. We apologise for any confusion.”

Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri also apologised to users on Twitter, sharing that the update test was not supposed to reach so many users.

Sorry about that, this was supposed to be a very small test but we went broader than we anticipated. ????

— Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) December 27, 2018

The update, which was sent to a number of iPhone users, has since been reversed.

Despite only being live for a few hours, it’s fair to say Twitter users were furious, with #InstagramUpdate soon trending on the platform.

I missed the #instagramupdate horror, but I just want to say that all of you who survived it are brave and strong. You didn’t ask for this but you are stronger from it. #Brave #Hero #WorldPeace

— Philip “that DeFranco guy” DeFranco (@PhillyD) December 27, 2018

us: pls chronological timelines insta: what? insta stories? us: nonono chronological timelines insta: did you mean IGTV us: NO CHRONOLOGICAL TIMELINES insta: ohhhh you want to scroll horizontally #instagramupdate

— ????, ????, ????, ????, ????, ???? (@triviastigma) December 27, 2018

????Instagram | | | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | ????going back to | chronological order | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| | | | ????the absolute worst update they’ve ever released #instagramupdate

— Seamus Daniel (@seamusmdaniel) December 27, 2018

instagram when they saw the update wasn’t a hit: when they quickly remove it: #instagramupdate pic.twitter.com/UHqrOxphRb

— ???? ???????????????????????? ???? (@localsatanicboy) December 27, 2018

A live look at everyone logging on to Instagram this morning: #instagramupdate pic.twitter.com/mduvrengdn

— RPI (@rpimusic) December 27, 2018

I HATE the new @instagram. I am now forced to go through every image of a swipe as well as ads. That line at the top makes me even want to give up scrolling. Why are they always playing with things that people like?

— l. anderson (@Leomie_Anderson) December 27, 2018

instagram: look at this cool new update

me: pic.twitter.com/PALe1Nmo9K

— ziwe (@ziwe) December 27, 2018

When Instagram releases an update and within 15 minutes everybody hates it #InstagramUpdate pic.twitter.com/2l0wBZwU78

— Meg Warpus (@MegWarpus) December 27, 2018

While it’s been hinted that Instagram could still bring the horizontal feed back, it seems these angry responsesmightlead Instagram to think twice before bringing tap-to-advance to the feed.

Now, could Instagram just please bring the chronological feed back? Thanks.

All I’m saying is if Instagram can undo an update that quickly after they realised people weren’t happy about it, I know for damn sure they can give me a chronological TL by the end of the day

— Call Me By My @ (@NotAgainBen) December 27, 2018

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