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View submission: Updated Android Video Player
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 02:11 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Your optimism is great. This new video player isn't.
I'm just going to avoid posts that have video now.