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[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 135 points 2 years ago

I'm mostly fine with shorts, except for two things:

  1. You can't move around in them, it's either play or pause and repeat, which sucks (as shorts don't have to be short..)

  2. On the homepage it doesn't show who the short is from (which channel) without opening them

You also can't adjust the video volume in browser. You have to go to a normal video, change it, and then go back.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 20 points 2 years ago

!assholedesign@lemmy.ml

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Just use the system audio control?

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 years ago

But why do I have to do that when every other video player has a volume slider?

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

On the contrary, why bother hunting the down the slider for every different player when you could just use the system?

Just curious, since I use the youtube slider like once a month.

[-] visor841@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

You can't move around in them, it's either play or pause and repeat, which sucks (as shorts don't have to be short..)

Oddly enough, this seems to be a desktop limitation. I can scrub backwards and forwards just fine on my phone.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 15 points 2 years ago

Hopefully desktop PC hardware will become powerful enough to gain the ability to skip around in 30 second videos someday. I think I read that they expect them to be at parity with smartphone hardware in the next decade or two.

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

They don't even need a seek bar, just support arrow keys

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

It's also annoying that you can't save them without using the hack where you change the URL.

[-] misk@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

I simply prefer TikTok for short form videos due to unique community and reasonably entertaining algorithm.

I enjoy YouTube to the point of paying for Premium but I hate that my YouTube subscriptions feed on TV is littered with shorts that I have no way of disabling other than hiding them one by one (which I do to make a point).

Suits at Google will try to shove it into everyone's throats until they get bored and someone adds it to killedbygoogle.com so why would anyone even bother with it.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's amazing how much social credit you possibly have. Xi Jinping is proud of you.

[-] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Are you alright there mate?

[-] whiskers@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can move around in them. Atleast on Android, there is a hidden red bar at the bottom which becomes visible if you pause the video.

[-] ObservantOcelot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You can scrub around in them. Look for the red bar on the bottom after the short starts. You can tap and drag on it and a little red circle will appear that will show briefly after you release.

[-] TheAndrewBrown@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

This is a problem with all of these Tik Tok clones (and even Tik Tok let’s you do it for some videos). It’d so annoying to be watching a 45 second reel but if I miss something, I have to watch the whole thing again

[-] Bjornir@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I have the exact opposite problem? I can skip around just fine in shorts, but can't in reels... Is this due to A/B testing or am I dumb?

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