[peeters]

There are two things that seem to be necessary for an image host to be successful on Reddit: 1) be extremely fast (why people hate i.minus compared to imgur), and 2) don't provide any content that can have sound.

I don't know what your service speed is like, but you break that second rule which seems really important to Reddit. Redditors don't actually seem to want "more featureful" in a n image host. Gfycat has an unquestionably clear sole purpose: to be a faster "GIF" host (by providing an HTML5 video option).

[ZeroGravitas]

This is the problem. Take your current code, host it on a different url (gifcrush?) and remove audio support.

[Houshalter]

Or just mute by default, but allow users to click to play sound.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

It remembers your preferred volume, though that feature isn't very discoverable. You could set it to zero and all videos would start muted. Ideas on making that more discoverable?

[munificent]

> Ideas on making that more discoverable?

1. Start off muted. 2. If the user views a video that has sound and is muted, put some small verbiage under the video saying it's muted.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

I don't like "start off muted". You can upload proper videos to MediaCrush, why should they be muted?

How about a little balloon thingy on the volume UI that tells you it'll be remembered?

[Houshalter]

Perhaps have a separate url for "proper" video? Or an option to turn off the mute by default (as opposed to having it turn off automatically the first time you unmute a video.)

Or just require videos with sound to click to play. It's the combination of sound and autoplay that is annoying.