Instagram is testing giving customers the flexibility to publish to their feeds from their desktop browser, the primary time the photograph sharing app has allowed posting from exterior its app.

The firm confirmed the check to Engadget. “We know that many people access Instagram from their computer,” a spokesperson mentioned. “To enhance that have, we’re now testing the flexibility to create a Feed publish on Instagram with their desktop browser.”

Desktop posting had beforehand by Alessandro Paluzzi, who reverse engineers standard apps. But on the time, Paluzzi famous that it gave the impression to be an inner check solely. That’s now altering, with a number of customers seeing the brand new characteristic enabled from their browsers.

There doesn’t appear to be any vital distinction between posts that originate exterior the app. Engadget confirmed that it’s nonetheless potential to add a number of pictures, edit, and apply filters to pictures posted from desktop browsers. Previously, customers who needed to publish from their computer systems got here up with workarounds, like altering their person agent settings or turning to exterior apps.

The change is a major one, and can be a serious step towards making Instagram’s web site as useful because the app. It’s additionally yet one more signal of Instagram changing into like Facebook. Earlier this week, the corporate confirmed it was testing one other change that may insert into customers’ feeds forward of content material from accounts they comply with.