[virtual_void]

I like duckduckgo bangs as an alternative to this. Just append !r to your search - or any of the others that they have, such as !hn.

I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which might be less than fantastic.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

[thrdbndndn]

I mean, that's a big difference. reddit's site search is infamously bad.

[pluc]

reddit's whole infrastructure is straight out of a case study

[bilekas]

True. Their implementation of a video player baffles the mind too.

[gpgn]

It always plays the video for a few seconds the first time, than goes back to the beginning and plays it correctly till the end. God forbid if you try to mute/unmute it. On Firefox at least.

[CameronNemo]

I've heard a lot of hate about their video player, but it always works for me.

What exactly is the issue with it?

[plonk]

It's funny, I've never seen it work correctly, even in the simplest case, on any of my devices.

Usually, clicking on the video does nothing. If I wait for enough seconds, it might start, maybe without sound. Or it might start the sound without the image. If I try to skip to some moment that hasn't been loaded yet, it usually just blocks and stops doing anything.

Maybe you have the exact browser/device/screen size/OS combination that the devs test on. Note I don't use the mobile Reddit app, only the website.

I'd like the devs to please just use the browser's <video> reader, without adding their own JS.

[adamomada]

> Note I don't use the mobile Reddit app, only the website.

I’m almost certain this is by design. Make the web shitty enough and you’ll get more app users!

“Reddit is better on the app, and we pulled every last trick in the dirty playbook to make it that way” is what the web banner really means

[pluc]

What's insulting is that you don't need to go far to get your type of feedback. Yet development efforts are spent on developing gamification mechanism that are utterly pointless, April Fool's or, wait, live streaming? They still manage two concurrent designs and have been for years - it's the longest frontend migration I've ever seen. They just started giving tools to the moderation community that has been keeping their platform alive and moderated.

[CameronNemo]

the exact browser/device/screen size/OS combination that the devs test on

I doubt it. I run Linux and Firefox. And Firefox on Android.

[itslennysfault]

Yeeeeaaah, reddit search is garbage, but.......

!g site:reddit.com something I want to find