For most of its life, Timehop has been a slow-burning success story. The app, which shows you photos and social media posts from the current date in previous years, grew out of hackathon project in 2011 to an app with more than 6 million daily users and $14 million in venture capital. It inspired copycats — most notably Facebook’s On This Day feature. And it inspired also loyalty, with half its users opening the app every day.
But now those users are staging a revolt. On December 26th, the company introduced a redesigned version of the app that replaced the vertically scrolling feed with a Snapchat-inspired design. Instead of quickly scanning through your digital time capsule, you would now tap through it, with Timehop presenting your...
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