Patent attributes
Systems and methods for creating and maintaining digital story progress bars may include (1) providing an interface that displays posts within a series of different digital stories, (2) displaying, within the interface, a progress bar including (i) a current-story section associated with a story-indicator corresponding to a current story whose posts are currently being displayed, and (ii) an upcoming-story section associated with a subsequent story-indicator corresponding to an upcoming story queued for display after the current story, (3) transitioning from displaying the posts of the current story to displaying the posts of the upcoming story, and (4) in response to displaying the posts of the upcoming story (i) altering the current-story section by replacing the story-indicator with the subsequent story-indicator and (ii) altering the upcoming-story section by replacing the subsequent story-indicator with a post-subsequent story-indicator corresponding to an additional upcoming story. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.