I have an userscript installed that turns the instagram video player into a regular html one, so in case I end up clicking an instagram link, I don't go insane while trying to watch something.
Same. Mine also Auto-Pauses video at the start.
Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo
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#12Letting users pause a Reels video. Hard to believe this wasn't case all along. This is user hostile: "Previously, users have only been able to pause videos on Instagram Reels by tapping and holding on their screen."
I'd always assumed these anti-features were intentional. For example, making it hard to pause reels causes them to roll over to the advert reel which is inserted between every two reels.
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#13Am I missing something or hallucinating? Pretty sure I've always been able to pause reels on desktop and mobile. Instagram Lite lacked this functionality.
Lack of a progress bar you can skip through is what's been missing compared to TikTok.
Or was this just not a thing for US users specifically?
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#14Letting users pause a Reels video. Hard to believe this wasn't case all along. This is user hostile: "Previously, users have only been able to pause videos on Instagram Reels by tapping and holding on their screen."
Par for the course, really. Still can't zoom into images on Instagram, can you?
The one and only supported image resolution is also lower than any of the screens I use.
The app is really hard to believe from a technical perspective, in general.
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#15Letting users pause a Reels video. Hard to believe this wasn't case all along. This is user hostile: "Previously, users have only been able to pause videos on Instagram Reels by tapping and holding on their screen."
You can’t fast-forward/scroll any video in Instagram and it is by design. To get users stay on the platform as long as possible. And it works.
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#16Letting users pause a Reels video. Hard to believe this wasn't case all along. This is user hostile: "Previously, users have only been able to pause videos on Instagram Reels by tapping and holding on their screen."
You can’t fast-forward/scroll any video in Instagram and it is by design. To get users stay on the platform as long as possible. And it works.
hm? Just drag the white bar at the bottom of the video
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#17Trying to use Reels after experiencing the (superior) UX of TikTok was hard enough, but trying to use Reels after experiencing the UX of XHS is pretty much impossible for me.
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#18Letting users pause a Reels video. Hard to believe this wasn't case all along. This is user hostile: "Previously, users have only been able to pause videos on Instagram Reels by tapping and holding on their screen."
Pause and rewind have been features since the phonograph. Vinyl and tapes could do it. Youtube did it (yet somehow they botched it for YT Shorts). Tiktok did it. Now Instagram feels like they invented something...
On the web YouTube, one can change the /shorts/ in the URL to /v/ to get the standard and not the "This is a TikTok-clone" interface.
On Android one can install NewPipe and have a better experience (then again, yesterday NewPipe failed to load any video for me, I guess YouTube updated their obfuscation code).
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can’t fast-forward/scroll any video in Instagram and it is by design. To get users stay on the platform as long as possible. And it works.
hm? Just drag the white bar at the bottom of the video
Curiously some Reels videos don't have this white bar. Nor do "Story" (i.e. the "we stole this from Snapchat" ephemeral content) videos.
Also it's possible to add videos as a "post" (the OG data model), and they're not reels, and these don't seem to have scrolling capability.
Gotta love the "Let's just throw a bunch of crap onto this thing" architectural design. I remember when Reels (the part that is full of reposted TikTok videos and girls in skimpy clothes advertising their OnlyFans) was called IGTV...
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#20Can someone explain to me why Meta or whoever doesn't just copy TikTok 1to1 with a new name? If TikTok really stops running in the usa, they would have an alternative product instead of Instagram reels and YouTube shorts, both of which obviously can't catch on.