540 upvotes, 40 direct replies (showing 25)
View submission: What we’re working on this year
We hear you, and we’re working on it. Improved performance (including addressing audio issues and crashing) and easier commenting are at the top of the priority list. As we mentioned in the post we’re looking into a few different UI solutions including:
making a swipe right navigation that takes you to a video’s comments where you can watch a thumbnail version of the video while joining the discussion about it
Comment by MasterMode12 at 02/06/2022 at 21:37 UTC*
120 upvotes, 4 direct replies
For the love of Christ just bring back the video player from 1 year ago. Worked fine, easy access to comment section while still being able to watch the video while scrolling. Don't get why we need all this work-around stuff that doesn't necessarily improve UI elements or app performance (to the contrary, actually) while no one had problems with the old video player. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Comment by xd_joliss at 02/06/2022 at 19:26 UTC
80 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Also will there be an option to only watch the "shorts" of the subreddit you're on?
When you click on a video and swipe to the next video you'll have one of a random subreddit, id like to stay on the sub i was and watch those video's
(on mobile)
Comment by simdaisies at 02/06/2022 at 20:10 UTC
40 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Please give me back control of the playing AND stopping a video on my feed. Also playing one video doesn't mean I want autoplay on for every video on my feed.
Comment by TheNamewhoPostedThis at 02/06/2022 at 20:41 UTC
15 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Ik it’s probably too late for you to see this but Android has a big problem where, after playing a few videos, it just won’t play any videos (gifs work fine though) unless you close the app and open it again.
Comment by FudgingEgo at 02/06/2022 at 19:36 UTC
15 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Can you also allow us to download videos to our phone again?
We used to be able to on the app but now I have to record my screen.
There’s so many good videos and gifs that people make that I want to share.
Comment by Birkeland1992 at 02/06/2022 at 20:35 UTC
30 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Why does the video player look like TikTok after last update ... It turns me off of reddit... Please give us choice on which video player layout we want.
Comment by hereisasine at 02/06/2022 at 21:14 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Sometimes I just want to read comments and not see the video (if it's NSFL for example, fun to read comments disturbing to watch). So maybe ability to turn off auto play on certain subs or NSFW tagged? (Can you add an NSFL tag?)
Comment by clemenslucas at 02/06/2022 at 19:40 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'd like an option (make it a premium feature, idc) that shows the vertical video - full width, no black bars - in my feed but otherwise doesn't force (or bait & trap) me into the "TT Experience" whenever I just want to pause a video.
Please and thank you
Comment by Ausernamefordamien at 02/06/2022 at 20:17 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Also be sure to consider how we view the video player on iPad. I’m ALWAYS in landscape mode on my iPad and for a while there, wasn’t able to comment on videos unless I rotated the device over to portrait mode—which is a pain with a keyboard attached!
Comment by xd_joliss at 02/06/2022 at 19:24 UTC
146 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Whoo! Finally!
Comment by International_War935 at 03/06/2022 at 03:30 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Honestly speaking every time you guys fix it or add something new, you guys break it even more. It has come to the point that I can barely view videos
Comment by ChineWalkin at 03/06/2022 at 05:46 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
How about the old one, that you all replaced with this dumpster fire?
Can we just get it back?
Comment by [deleted] at 03/06/2022 at 05:25 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The answer is something what Dennis from its always sunny said when they tried to defend wolf cola pr disaster.
Comment by Laggianput at 03/06/2022 at 05:34 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Its also a mess on low speed internet on the app. I never get over 25 mbps on my internet, and videos refuse to ever load. Thats easily a bigger issue to a good amoumt of users as opposed to audio and crashing.
Also swiping right to view comments makes it closer to tiktok, which many users vehemently dont want to replicate
Comment by Dithyrab at 02/06/2022 at 23:10 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This whole thread is nonsense, how about more support for oldreddit, stop facebookifying this site.
Comment by antennawire at 02/06/2022 at 23:42 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's not about performance, nor about features. The problem is videos that never start. Especially after some extensive Reddit endulging as far as I am concerned anyway (had this issue only on mobile with my old and new phone, both Google pixels)
Comment by drunkpunk138 at 02/06/2022 at 20:55 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I hope to God that fixing the feed resetting when backing out of a post, both on the web and the app, are a part of this fix. Although I think the video player makes it worse, it certainly happens when viewing any post.
Comment by Cool_Was_Taken at 02/06/2022 at 19:31 UTC
20 upvotes, 0 direct replies
/s
Comment by WarlordOfIncineroar at 02/06/2022 at 23:02 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
How much ya'll wanna bet this'll break the video player even further
Comment by Bolwinkel at 02/06/2022 at 21:21 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The TikTok form factor is nice for when I want more of similar things, but god damn it, when I open a post with a video, don't take me to its own page, let me swipe through my feed/subreddit like normal
Comment by duffmanhb at 02/06/2022 at 23:31 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
How about the damn official app? The fact that it does a 10 second low res preload of all videos, then forces you to watch the 10 second low res version, literally makes me want to kill baby narwhals.
Comment by Hallucinationsinc at 02/06/2022 at 22:34 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Simple request:
Can we finally go superluminal up in here & get a simple ability to copy & paste within posts+search those copied texts within the app seamlessly. Please.
You're welcome §-)
Comment by whataboutschism at 03/06/2022 at 03:55 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Just make it work, it’s not magic. Jesus.
Comment by scarey99 at 02/06/2022 at 23:31 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but why do some videos have audio and some don't but they clearly have a soundtrack?
Comment by Inconceivable76 at 03/06/2022 at 02:28 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Speaking of video, I have autoplay set to off, yet I’m still getting ads autoplaying, and with sound.