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YouTube goes out of its way to replace iOS's fullscreen media viewer with a terrible one. Maybe they felt like they had to make it look like the desktop UI or t
by wlesieutre 8y ago
YouTube goes out of its way to replace iOS's fullscreen media viewer with a terrible one. Maybe they felt like they had to make it look like the desktop UI or they needed the quality / settings buttons, but the scrubber is just bad.
And they took away the +/- 15 seconds buttons, which are much much better for skipping around long videos than the scrubber is.
- jimktrains2 8y agoMystery meet navigation! On Android, I accidentally found tapping multiple times quickly on the sides of a videos does this and the more you times you tap the further back it goes. Mystery meat navigation is probably the worst paradigm in all of us. Even icons with stupid, but distinguishable icons is better.
- janekm 8y agoYouTube on iOS has the same scrubber. Which is great once you discover it... oh well.
- zrobotics 8y agoWhich is a shame, because desktop YouTube is one 8f the best video player UIs that I have ever used, and I'm still searching for a desktop video player that is as usable. Although the mobile version is unconscionably awful, I almost always have to guess at what the controls do and avoid opening the app.
- qt4apologist 8y agoAre you joking? Desktop YouTube is one of the worst UIs I've had to deal with. Controls constantly popping up over the video, annotations on by default, autoplay to the next video on by default. If you're in full screen mode and switch to another app, then come back, the video is just ... gone. It's not on the page, but it's not full-screen anymore, either. Buttons and options that don't show up consistently on every video. No way to fix the aspect ratio of videos created by morons. Crap everywhere on the page. I seriously find it hard to believe that anyone would consider YouTube to have a good video player interface, let alone the best.
- wlesieutre 8y agoHa, good to know. I've discovered that the pinch-outward-to-fullscreen gesture is disabled on the YouTube video player (you get a "Full screen is unavailable. Learn More." notice). But if you: 1) go to shitty-fullscreen 2) hit picture-in-picture 3) go back to fullscreen 4) close fullscreen back to normal view 5) pinch-outward to zoom It will put you into the native iOS fullscreen player. So I think I'll keep doing that rather than learn the mystery meat navigation. Dear Googlers reading this: you may be tempted to go out of your way to fuck it up further and remove this workaround. Pretty please don't? Thanks.
- bhandziuk 8y agoDiscovering this is a big gamble because you don't accidentally double click these regions because a single click could mean going forward of back a full video in some playlist.
- jimktrains2 8y agoYeah, and they changed the behavior of the back button on Android to make it impossible to go to the previous video!
- kitsunesoba 8y agoThe YouTube app’s custom video player also doesn’t have audio delay compensation for AirPods, unlike the standard iOS AVKit player. I’ve been avoiding the official app because of it.
- saagarjha 8y ago> YouTube goes out of its way to replace iOS's fullscreen media viewer with a terrible one. Maybe they felt like they had to make it look like the desktop UI or they needed the quality / settings buttons I think the reason they do this is because the standard media player allows for picture in picture and background playback.
- wlesieutre 8y agoYou can actually use those in Safari on an iPad now, so I don’t think that’s it. Unless a content blocker I’ve installed has fixed something they tried to break.