5 ms·

Here's a pretty good view from above, from reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/aa632d/massive_new_york_city_electrical_fire_at_astor

• groestl 8y ago
  I think the battle is lost, but I'm a little bit sad seeing the sky over a city being filmed in vertical video.
  • opless 8y ago
    Though it makes sense if you're watching it on your phone maximised in its natural orientation.
    • abainbridge 8y ago
      We should just make phones square.
      • foobar1962 8y ago
        Or make the sensor square and have it record full-sensor so the image can be rotes in post processing.
      • kw71 8y ago
        No, we should have the phones deliver electric shocks whenever taking video in portrait mode.
    • pmontra 8y ago
      Probably who records videos just pick up the phone, portrait mode, and start filming. No thoughts about the circumstances of watching it later on.
    • mrfusion 8y ago
      Here’s a PSA for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA
      • gammateam 8y ago
        Looks more like a user experience problem than the content creator's problem Youtube doesn't post process vertical videos correctly, while Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, and many other sites keep the processed video in its flexible aspect ratio - primarily for their mobile users who would have no UX problem. Interesting how that hasn't made it into the discussion, I feel like people will just stop talking about it when the UX is fixed
        • groestl 8y ago
          Funny you should say that mobile users on Reddit have no UX problem with vertical videos. Here is how the above link looks like on my mobile device. Original link (to classic reddit UI), mobile version horizontal, mobile version portrait, respectively: https://imgur.com/a/JU4v3rn https://imgur.com/a/JU4v3rn
          • gammateam 8y ago
            okay. then reddit should fix their UX problem shrug emoji doesn't change the point
          • Stratoscope 8y ago
            The video has a full screen button which can be seen in your screenshots. Tap it and the video fills the screen in portrait mode on both the old reddit and the new mobile reddit, at least on my Android device.
            • nsalkmaar 8y ago
              I find it terrible "progress" that one has to press a button to get a functional view.
  • yqh 8y ago
    I'm sure most people who've clicked the play button on that video have done so on their mobiles in portrait orientation so... sorry gramps
    • nkozyra 8y ago
      Sometime in the future we'll look back and wonder how our televisions and movie screens became vertical. This post will go into the evidence basket.
      • ryanmercer 8y ago
        I lol'd, I'm reading this on a vertical monitor right now. My secondary monitor is vertical due to cramped desk space, so I can have my horizontal monitor still centered when I look straight ahead.
        • nkozyra 8y ago
          Developers are a bit different in this regard. I used to use a vertical monitor in 2007 because, well, it's pretty great for big chunks of code and web development in general. As good as it was, I never wanted to watch videos in that way.
  • deleted 8y ago
    [deleted]
• sschueller 8y ago
  Here a close up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0u1tE2_RQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0u1tE2_RQ and https://streamable.com/2wi38 https://streamable.com/2wi38
  • tedd4u 8y ago
    Note loud NSFW language immediately and throughout the video. :)
• bjelkeman-again 8y ago
  That really looks like a scene from a science fiction movie.