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Video Is Coming To Reddit (variety.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report from Variety: Videos are coming to Reddit, thanks to a new feature that allows users to upload video clips directly to the service. Reddit rolled out the new video feature Tuesday after testing it with around 200 communities over the past couple of weeks. Reddit users are now able to upload videos of up to 15 minutes in length, with file sizes being limited to 1 gigabyte. Users will be able to upload videos via Reddit's website and its mobile apps for iOS and Android, with the latter offering basic trimming functionality as well. And, in keeping with the spirit of the site, Reddit is also offering a conversion tool to turn videos into animated Gifs. Videos are being displayed persistently, or pinned, meaning that users can scroll through the comments while the video keeps playing in the corner of their screen. And community moderators can opt not to allow videos in their Subreddits at all, with Le arguing that some discussion-heavy Subreddits may decide that the format just doesn't work for them.
Wow, and they got there before unicode at Slashdot.
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Ever since Damore, I've been concerned about videos like CppCon and BoostCon along with "XXXX" meetups being posted on Youtube. It's nice to have an alternative.
Let the rick-rolling begin!
The lack of video support was never my main problem with Reddit.
The main problem I faced, and I never even posted there, was the rampant and unjustifiable moderation. Even as just a reader it ruined the experience for me, because so much good content would be removed for no good reason.
Except for a very small handful of obscure subreddits, in my opinion most of the major and even minor ones ended up being taken over by extreme leftists who twist and moderate the discussion so it fits their very specific and extremist narrative. Anybody who expresses an opinion that differs from what's deemed to be "acceptable" is quickly attacked and stomped out, I think.
It does make sense that this has happened at Reddit. We've seen something similar happen at sites like Wikipedia and Stack Overflow, too.
I suspect it's mainly because nearly all centrists, conservatives, libertarians and even many on the near-left are too busy doing something productive with their lives. While they might use those sorts of sites for an hour or two in the evenings, they're too preoccupied with other stuff to spend their entire day on those sites. Extreme leftists, on the other hand, typically do not work, and do not do anything productive with their time. So they're able to spend hour upon hour engaging in online politics, which can result in them becoming moderators, which then means that they have hours and hours to harass and delete the content created by reasonable people.
I'd rather see Reddit fix the extreme moderation abuse that goes on there, and instead create an environment that allows for a wide range of views and opinions to be expressed, rather than wasting effort on adding support for videos.
How soon before we see a "purge" like what his happening now at Youtube with all conservative content? Censorship is running rampant on Youtube with videos AND comments being deleted outright. And by the way, if you equate conservative content with the Alt-right or Nazis; then go to hell. And the same applies if you deny it happening or justify it.
I'm an adult, and I can decide for myself what to watch or what not to watch. Something that evil-doing Google seems to have lost grasp of. That seems to be all the rage these days, protecting special people from being offended with some censorship here, some more censorship over there and maybe toss in a job firing. Not to mention their attempt at 're-educating' me by throwing videos I don't want to watch in my face.
I truly hope that reddit avoids this mess.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Fuck 'sticky' elements that follow you as you scroll
Fuck embedded videos pretty much anywhere
And, most of all, fuck reddit
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You thought your energy, storage, and bandwidth bills were high before... and you're still not really making any money, and thought this was a good idea?
Try firing your corrupt administration, first. You might have enough money to BEGIN to afford the drain you just put on yourself.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I'm sure it's going to work out as well as the optimists think! What could possibly go wrong?
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
See the subject you fucking troll!
Reddit will sink under the ever-expanding load of white supremacy porn.
Now we'll finally have a place where gamers can post videos about peacefully putting Jews in ovens.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Every single browser can play the modern formats in a thin frame, why would you ever need to use gif? It's a brilliant way to take high-quality video and turn it into something bulky, sluggish, in low fidelity. Are you stupid or something?
A great experiment by Reddit team, rolled out video features to be streaming on reddit web. An interesting to see on it.
This sounds like an introduction to intrusive adds. If you try to use an add blocker you block the content. People universally hate the player, there is definitely a financial reason they are stubbornly pushing it. Reminds me of when digg tried to aggressively monotize its user base and ended up alienating them.
Because let's face it, enough of their traffic is exactly that to keep driving narratives so things constantly hit the front page that probably wouldn't organically get there in the first place.
Reddit's image hosting is already the worst thing to happen to the internet with their retarded resizing to some awkward resolution and awful quality. I'm sure it won't be any different for video.
Watchdit?
Well that's a great news, now no more using youtube videos on reddit...
so ...videos for dummies?
after all 200 posters in a north korean thread don't even know that the usa and other nations are still technically at a state of war with north korea , and when you tell people and finally get upset about it they ban you...any videos there are just for the mentally handicapped that are always at that site
Before the violent hateful violent alt-left drives everyone away from it.
So, now we've migrated from Flash (boo!) to HTML5 multimedia...
- Every site wants to include video, no matter how inappropriate
- Every site wants the video to autoplay
- Every site wants it to be as intrusive and distracting as possible, impossible to scroll past and ignore
I've been worrying for a while we made a mistake in demonizing Flash. You see, Flash you could just disable. Because it was a security risk, there were a hundred browser extensions and features making it easy to block Flash on a case-by-case basis.
But video? Mozilla won't even provide a UI to allow you to disable autoplay, and if you do disable it via about:config, it's an all-sites-or-nothing thing. I've actually switched to using Firefox to browse the web, and Chrome to view videos if I find one I want to watch.
This is horrible. Do I want Flash back? The worst part of that question is: I don't know. I really don't know. Between the abuse of video, and the introduction of non-standards for DRM by the W3C effectively closing the web, I think Flash was better.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
free speech n.
the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint.
NOT LIMITED TO GOVERNMENT. See store for details.
More things for reddit to sensor and shadow ban!
That is going the wrong direction. Why would anyone want to take a nice video, increase the file size tenfold, and reduce it to 256 colours? That makes no sense.
I've always hated the recent resurgence of this antiquated, terrible image format, but this is a new low. Fuck you Reddit for continuing to spread this garbage.
...more video on the internet. Because there's nothing I like better than sitting through a three-minute video to get 10 seconds of information that I could have read.