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Mystery 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 f

Mystery 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 ago
YouTube on iOS has the same scrubber. Which is great once you discover it... oh well.
- zrobotics 8y ago
  Which 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 ago
    Are 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 ago
Ha, 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 ago
Discovering 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 ago
  Yeah, and they changed the behavior of the back button on Android to make it impossible to go to the previous video!

janekm 8y ago

YouTube on iOS has the same scrubber. Which is great once you discover it... oh well.

zrobotics 8y ago
Which 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 ago
  Are 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 ago

Ha, 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 ago

Discovering 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 ago
Yeah, and they changed the behavior of the back button on Android to make it impossible to go to the previous video!