131
Addressing the new video player(self.changelog)
TL;DR: The new video player has launched on iOS with a lot of bugs and mistakes that we're not proud...
since 4 years, 5 months ago
3 of 3
Tip Reveddit Real-Time can notify you when your content is removed.
your account history
Tip Check if your account has any removed comments.
view my removed comments you are viewing a single comment's thread.
view all comments
It looks like the behavior right now is: 1. Start video from feed. 2. Pause video in Video UI (where pausing is available) 3. Go back to feed, video has started playing again (instead of remaining paused).
So this means: 1. In the feed you can start a video but you can’t stop it? 2. Effectively this means a user can never stop a video playing in the feed once it has been started?
This is REALLY bad design. I get trying to drive users to watch more content and engage with individual posts… but this is literally forcing users to watch videos since they can never be paused in the feed. Seems like a user is forced to make a choice between not starting the video (since users can’t stop them), starting the video and then restarting the app (this technically stops the video), or just letting the video play?
Is this really the intended behavior?
This has been driving me bonkers. At the very least we need the pause functionality from the feed back. Especially after the debacle of the battery bug, I don't know that I can trust the videos to stop playing when I scroll past them now.
This drives me CRAZY! Especially when trying to browse reddit in peace and the video suddenly starts blaring out on a loop