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snapchat has a brand-new design as part of an effort to make snapchat more user friendly the Refresh aims to separate your friends from professional publishers so what's different swiping to the left screen reveals what used to be the private chat part of snapchat now it's merged with your friends stories tap on a conversation to open it and respond or tap on a friends icon to see their most recent snaps snapchat says your closest friends will float to the top so you can prioritize keeping up with them on the right side of the camera snapchat reworked the discover page now it's in a vertical format and will hold publisher stories local events and featured snapchat creators it will still offer relevant pics based off of algorithms but in a slight dig at YouTube's recent algorithm problems snapchat made sure to mention human review was still a big part of how content gets chosen for curation snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel introduced the changes in a blog post on the snap website and says the update will slowly trickle out to a small percentage of users at first and then a larger rollout will occur by the end of 2017 with the companies struggling to bring in new users after going public earlier this year it's a move aimed at getting people to either try the app for the first time or come back if they've left are you interested in the snapchat update or are you not impressed leave your thoughts down in the comments for more check out cnet.com I'm Ashley sceva be good humans