Comment by Sn00byD00 on 02/08/2021 at 17:28 UTC

1 upvotes, 6 direct replies (showing 6)

View submission: Addressing the new video player

If you want to really dig into the weeds on what happened with the successive bug situation, let us know in the comments and we’ll walk through the gory details).

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Comment by Halaku at 02/08/2021 at 17:56 UTC

26 upvotes, 1 direct replies

If you could have this crossposted / announced on r/Redditmobile, you'd likely find a lot of people interested in those gory details... and maybe it'll stop / slow the constant stream of complaints about the player / demands to revert it.

Comment by Sn00byD00 at 02/08/2021 at 21:48 UTC

14 upvotes, 2 direct replies

When we first decided to move videos over to our new player, we kept all nsfw-marked videos out for #hailcorporate reasons. We then changed our minds after initial launch for it to be - if a user taps an nsfw video in a feed, it will open in our new player (though for now, nsfw videos are never surfaced as recommendations).

After updating for this, we had an honest to goodness bug where we were still filtering out nsfw videos after opening the new player. We would launch the new player, but Instead of opening the nsfw video, Reddit would instead open a random non-nsfw video post. Our qa team missed the test case.

We quickly fixed this, but in doing so, introduced a new bug where nsfw videos were frozen. Luckily, we could revert this, but unfortunately had a bug on the scrubber/seeker when doing so (since the reverted codepath was not fully tested). So at this point, we had 2 not so fun choices:

1. Nsfw videos broken (for a second week), but scrubber works

2. Nsfw fixed, but scrubber broken

We chose #2 and quickly worked on a fix for the scrubber...and these bugs are squashed for now!

Comment by NickVlass76 at 06/08/2021 at 16:34 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Is there any chance a feature will be implemented in the future where I can *only* load the comments without the video? I get that I can just swipe up to expand the comments and the video pauses, but operating on limited data, I feel like there should be a function to access comments without even loading up the video in the first place.

Thanks!

Comment by markaznar at 02/08/2021 at 17:34 UTC

-42 upvotes, 2 direct replies

My company is about to leave Reddit official as we don’t understand why your widget on ios14 DOES NOT support the ability to display our own homepage which our company needs. We need this very badly, some of our employees have moved to Apollo already because of this. I hope you can rectify this immediately