Comment by Astropical on 31/08/2021 at 15:16 UTC

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View submission: Addressing the new video player

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In reference to changing functionality of swiping o “discover videos”, this is a REALLY poor design. Functionality should be uniform for all posts, and if swiping up on a video makes it behave differently than other post types, this is really bad for muscle memory and user experience.

Additionally, if I hit a video and try to back out, it continues to auto play on my feed, even if I Ouse it in the actual thread or video player. Trying to click on the video again to pause it just takes me back to the thread or player full screen. Don’t know if that is user error or design flaw, but this is all together a horribly designed video player.

I’m switching to Apollo unless and until this change is reverted. I much prefer the Reddit app, but the video change is so terrible that I cannot have a good user experience.

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