[jrockway]

Even ignoring these things, they seem to do pretty well. I only use TikTok by being linked to it, and the video always works. The same cannot be said of Reddit, which often just shows a spinner, or sometimes it gets stuck midway through the video, or sometimes keeps playing sound even when you navigate to a different page.

I think Reddit is just especially terrible. They had to write custom code for handling the viewport autoplay, and ... I guess didn't implement everything else correctly.

YouTube has been fine for ages, though, and have great keyboard shortcuts that no PM would ever think to ask people to add. They just added them in 2008 and kept them all working through 5 versions of HTML. Not bad.

[gernb]

The worst experience for me is trying to play videos in the google photos mobile app (or the website). It can take 1-2-3-4 minutes (or never) for it to finally play a video I uploaded from my phone a few days, weeks ago.

[WasDADO]

My god the google photos mobile app is oblivious, if I select a photo and make the mistake of swiping to the previous or next one, is game over for me, only a black screen awaits my despair. I have to close and reopen the app (same for web version) and then, only if I select the video/photo correctly the first time, after a lot of waiting, I can finally view my content.

[gardenhedge]

Yes! I've had the same experience but forgot to list it in my initial post.

[preciousoo]

The fact that they kept the keyboard shortcuts working is something like a miracle in tech