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by walterbell 4096 days ago
It originally had a play button, which disappeared when pressed, but no video appeared. Just tried again and it seems to be working, iOS8 iPad. When the share icon is pressed, the bottom bar flashes, but no other options appear.

I assume this is a Javascript-controlled HTML5 player driven by your playlist API, so all content comes from YouTube and doesn't impose any streaming cost on you?

It looks really good! You should create somewhere for users to comment on the UX, and link that from the UI. This may find unexpected and interesting applications, e.g. custom channels.

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We currently have a feedback form to submit feedback and haven't gotten any yet through the form. We also have a dedicated subreddit at reddit.com/r/SubtleTV. Glad it's working now. iOS can be a bit tricky due to restrictions but we're working on improving compatibility as much as possible. Intended behavior for iOS is to open the native player and then let you skip to the next video from the native player. Once we have our iOS app it will be a lot smoother.

Yes your assumptions are correct. We're streaming from Youtube, Dailymotion, and Vimeo using our custom player and our API.

The suggestion about custom channels is a good one, currently you can watch specific topics by doing a search.