Video is Coming to Reddit
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Video is Coming to Reddit
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#2What is the end game for Reddit? Control of the videos so they can sell ads, right?
Does the benefit redditors? No.
Based on the testing so far the mobile player is not ready for prime time nor is the backend video infrastructure. Videos lag horribly and spin sometimes forever .. as if the connection was broken.
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#3Is the exit plan now to tack reddit with so much bullshit they can sell it to anyone who wants a social bookmarking site?
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#4I've only encountered it a few times but it seems everyone dislikes it. The player is pretty bad. Then again, Reddit jumped the shark some time ago.
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#6Just trying to look at images with their built-in image hosting is not the greatest experience - two clicks to view the original image, compared to one with other image hosts (yeah, I know, RES; but I browse on mobile too). Combine this with the highly frequent "we're overloaded" messages, and I'm not really looking forward to their attempt at hosting videos as well.
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#7A couple months ago I found that Reddit submissions using Reddit's native image hosting, a year after its implementation, surpassed those of its main competitor, Imgur (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595212)
I'm not entirely sure the same will happen with video. Not only are the videos typically posted on Reddit's largest video subreddits are from the YouTube community (and intended for the YouTube community), the video player beta is apparently a worse user experience than YouTube. (in contrast with images, where the competitor was the one with the worse user experience)
And that's not even getting into the logistical concerns. Hosting images is much, much easier than video, as video has much higher bandwidth/storage requirements AND Reddit will have to frequently remove pirated/NSFW videos for Safe Harbor protection/advertiser friendliness, which is a challenge even Google has not been able to solve at scale.
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#8I've only encountered it a few times but it seems everyone dislikes it. The player is pretty bad. Then again, Reddit jumped the shark some time ago.
Like most new ventures, iterating is key to improving the product.
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#10What is the end game for Reddit? Control of the videos so they can sell ads, right? Does the benefit redditors? No. Based on the testing so far the mobile player is not ready for prime time nor is the backend video infrastructure. Videos lag horribly and spin sometimes forever .. as if the connection was broken.
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