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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
Unless Reddit is the gubmint, "free speech" is out of context.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
The place is pretty much an echo chamber.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Lefties and proggies don't believe in free speech or liberalism.
Okay, put down the broad brush, and rethink your view of the world.
People, no matter what part of the political spectrum they identify with, are not so easy to pigeon-hole as you want to imagine.
And BTW, there are plenty of lefties and righties who believe in free speech and liberalism (in the sense of liberty.)
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
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.