Instagram glitch lets people post extra-long photos

When you scroll through your Instagram feed today, you might have to keep scrolling... and scrolling...

There’s a new glitch that lets people post extra-long images onto their feeds. It’s attention-grabbing for pretty obvious reasons: they take a while to scroll past. Instagram normally limits portrait photos to roughly the size of your screen.

The glitch appears to only work on iOS. To make it work, you basically just create or save an extra-long image, then open up Instagram’s photo picker and select it. The app seems to be failing to properly crop them right now.

There are some exceptions. Images that are too long seem to not work or to turn up all black. Images may also get cut off and appear really pixelated. This isn’t quite a...

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