33 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Addressing the new video player
Honestly, at this point, with the massive amounts of negative feedback - I am confused as to why the developers are staying the course with this decision change. You can already see the massive amounts of comments of users moving to 3rd party apps for Reddit because that’s how bad the video player is.
I’m all for change but this is such a poor user experience change that it makes no sense to continue to work on developing something that users very clearly say is not intuitive or adding to the experience.
If you want more users to use the official Reddit app you probably should be more open to reversing course on decisions. With all the A/B testing that happens in the official Reddit app I’m surprised this even made it to a wide release.
Comment by Rebles at 02/08/2021 at 17:57 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Personally, I like the new video player. Yeah, the bugs were REALLLYYYY shitty and Reddit needs(ed?) to get its act together. I guess I'm pointing out that we don't know how the positive reception is, because they're not the ones posting in r/bugs etc.
Comment by Sn00byD00 at 02/08/2021 at 18:21 UTC
7 upvotes, 3 direct replies
We totally understand that the new full bleed player hasn’t been a great user experience so far. That said, we are working to improve the video player for everyone in a way that makes sense for all users and in a way that enables us to make changes quickly (rather than 10 different times on 10 different platforms).