Winsta UWP (Instagram) reaches Long Term Support

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Winsta UWP (for Instagram) arguably comes of age with v2.8, labelled as LTS, or Long Term Support, implying that the developer reckons its mature and bug-free. I've been following the application and have compiled my usual comprehensive changelog of everything that's new since we last featured Winsta UWP, mid-March.

Here then is the changelog for v2.8.0 (since v2.6, and in the developer's own phrasing):

  • Added video story upload (You can just add Polls, Sliders and, Questions)
  • Added support for replying to notifications from action center
  • Improved notifying system
  • Fixed comment deleting issues
  • Improved feed uploading experience
  • Fixed a bug in 2FA authentication
  • Updated API version to v130 of Instagram
  • So much less crash/unhandled exceptions happening in this version
  • Added tailed comment delete
  • Added support for user tags
  • New story reaction view in Directs page
  • Joining live from Direct
  • Improved double-tap to like
  • Added support for joining live from User's profile page
  • Added controls for live (play/pause, mute, and seek)
  • Added sharing live/saved live to direct
  • Reduced the live latency
  • Reduced live page loading time
  • changed the share media icon
  • Improved the story item locating (polls, questions and etc. Now shows more near its real place)
  • More fixes in stories section
  • 'Stay home' fix
  • Better live streaming support
  • Fixed uploading videos on Mobile
  • Added support for uploading albums on feed
  • Showing your post when the upload just got complete

As ever, a few screenshots:

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OK, so I'm not pushing the boundaries of Instagram here, but the basics of browsing and uploading do work (albeit with the odd spurious error message).

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Winsta does seem more stable these days. There's a lot to fiddle with in Settings, both on the Instagram front and for Winsta's own behaviour - the way into Settings is via the profile tab at the bottom right of the UI, then see the gear wheel top right, as here.

Winsta UWP has a very active developer and there's an Insider user community here on Telegram. (Access the latter through Unigram UWP!) See you there?

As I stated before, Winsta UWP is still highly recommended. There's a lot to like about Winsta's speed and UI, it's a breath of fresh air - you can directly encourage the developer by buying Winsta, since it's a couple of quid in the Microsoft Store. Go on, if you want to see this updated further, buy the developer a cup of coffee in this way...

See also the official Instagram PWA, which works very well (apart from notifications) under Windows 10 Mobile.

Source / Credit: Store