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Re: Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo

#3

Post by TheAceOfHearts »

grajaganDev wrote: post #2

Letting 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."

In TikTok holding the screen causes it to play at 2x, they should probably reuse the same gesture to make user adoption smoother.

But still... A feature announcement for a fucking pause button is deranged.

Re: Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo

#4

Post by niek_pas »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #3
grajaganDev wrote: post #2

Letting 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."

In TikTok holding the screen causes it to play at 2x, they should probably reuse the same gesture to make user adoption smoother. But still... A feature announcement for a fucking pause button is deranged.

With enough 200k/year engineers, perhaps one day Instagram will build a video player _almost_ as good as Youtube was in 2006.

Re: Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo

#5

Post by unsnap_biceps »

niek_pas wrote: post #4
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In TikTok holding the screen causes it to play at 2x, they should probably reuse the same gesture to make user adoption smoother. But still... A feature announcement for a fucking pause button is deranged.

With enough 200k/year engineers, perhaps one day Instagram will build a video player _almost_ as good as Youtube was in 2006.

Nah, being unable to pause just means they get way more minutes of viewing when people put down their phone to do something. It just sits there and plays, earning that sweet sweet ad money.

Re: Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo

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Post by Elfener »

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #5
niek_pas wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With enough 200k/year engineers, perhaps one day Instagram will build a video player _almost_ as good as Youtube was in 2006.

Nah, being unable to pause just means they get way more minutes of viewing when people put down their phone to do something. It just sits there and plays, earning that sweet sweet ad money.

I've always found this weird - when I put my phone down I hit the power button to turn the screen off/lock it.

Re: Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo

#9

Post by edarchis »

grajaganDev wrote: post #2

Letting 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...

Re: Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo

#10

Post by jeisc »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #3
grajaganDev wrote: post #2

Letting 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."

In TikTok holding the screen causes it to play at 2x, they should probably reuse the same gesture to make user adoption smoother. But still... A feature announcement for a fucking pause button is deranged.

the goal is to force behavior onto users like Pavlov's dogs using B. F. Skinner Psychology
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