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View submission: Updated Android Video Player
Thank for replying to me.
Sorry but that's not addressing my concerns at all.. you're just explaining how your new features works... After 30 seconds I was fully aware of how it all works BUT I'm pointing out the redundancy of these new features because and as you've just pointing out the navigation now requires more effort (not a lot mind but still more than before) plus the use of a second hand to close the video.
Addressing the issues would be explaining the real reason why so much has been changed when is was just the loading/buffering that everyone was complaining about or explaining how or if we can have the old options back
Comment by semi-confusticated at 02/02/2022 at 20:25 UTC*
12 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Addressing the issues would be explaining the real reason why so much has been changed
It looks like they explained in another comment over here
I'm pretty sure that is the ultimate, real reason for the change: **reddit wants to consolidate their codebase to make the video player easier to maintain**
In theory, this would allow the developers to fix bugs and make improvements faster. It means that they won't have to spend extra time keeping track of all those different video players and making the same change, but different, several times over each time they want to fix or modify the video player
In reality... well, it may take a while before users like us see any benefit from the consolidated video player. I don't seem to have the new video player yet, so I can't comment on that directly, but the last time they tried to roll out a new video player, it was clear that they didn't do a very good job on it. Hopefully they'll fix it up eventually so it's at least as good as (or, ideally, better than) the old one
Edit: added quote at the top for clarification, fixed typo
Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2022 at 23:06 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It’s advertising ads are easier to circulate with it conspired to the split video players and tictoc is popular so they want to clone it