Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by plonk 1517 days ago
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.
3 comments
adamomada 1517 days ago
> 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

link
pluc 1517 days ago
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.
link
plonk 1517 days ago
> They still manage two concurrent designs and have been for years - it's the longest frontend migration I've ever seen.

Maybe the new design is so obviously slower and broken that they see killing old.reddit.com as too risky (cf. the video player, the loss of position in a page when using back/forward, the un-followable comment threads that make you click on "more comments" 10 times a minute, and all the boxes begging for your email address and for you to please use the app).

link
CameronNemo 1517 days ago
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.

link
plonk 1517 days ago
I would look for a reproducible test case but I'd feel like I'm doing Reddit's job for free.
link