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View submission: Updated Android Video Player
This is terrible please change it back! It's horrible to navigate, why do I need my other hand to close it instead of swiping up? 🤷♂️ who ever thought of that is in the wrong job. Why are the upvote counts now blocking 20% of the right side of my screen? Blocking part of the video was never going to improve it. Watching the video and reading comments at the same time... We could already fit both on our screens if we wanted to.. but the problem with aiming for that to be a big feature, is people can only focus on one thing at a time, so what the point in forcing both on the screen? The whole thing now feels like a cheesy tic tok video. Please, please change it back or at least give us the option to change it ourselves.
The problem with the old version was it took forever to load or only loaded small parts at a time... that's all that needing improvement, the layout and navigation was perfect the way it was
Comment by commandersnoo at 02/02/2022 at 19:22 UTC
-17 upvotes, 9 direct replies
Appreciate the feedback. This is the first step of many that we are undertaking to improve the interface and gestures of the video player. We’ll continue to make improvements based on your feedback and the behavior of people who watch videos.
To immediately address your concerns, you can single-tap on the screen to dismiss the chrome (all the buttons and text that overlay the video). You can also pull the comment sheet to the top of the screen to hide the video and just read the comments.