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72 points by bogdanteodoru 6y ago

visarga 6y ago
I like it. What do you think about making it autoplay when opening a video?
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  Unfortunately I saw that sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. On desktop is working better than mobile. I'm just using the code Reddit provides for embed so not sure if that actually possible.
sgeorge96 6y ago
Pretty cool!
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  Thanks. Appreciate it.
londons_explore 6y ago
Very nice and quick. The actual videos load slowly, but I assume that's a limitation of reddits video player.
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  Yeah so I have NO BACKEND. Everything is shown using the Reddit JSON Api. I just made it search for specific URLs etc. The embeds come from Reddit itself and I have "almost" no control over them.
  - frankramos 6y ago
    This is incredible. Do you have a public github repository. I am learning Vue.js and this seems like a great project to learn layout structure?
    - bogdanteodoru 6y ago
      Not yet but I plan to release it in the near future. I will put a not to remind you here when it's done.
sschueller 6y ago
Thanks for the download button. I hate how reddit decided they own the content now and don't let you download.
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  Sure thing :)
- frfl 6y ago
  fyi for anyone who doesn't know, youtube-dl will let you download videos from various sites, including reddit, twitter. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/ https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
- foepys 6y ago
  This is especially infuriating since reddit's video player on any Android mobile browser is utter garbage. It hangs constantly because of its poor performance, loads the video extremely slowly, and doesn't support seeking in any audio-less video because a click maximized the video instead of showing a seekbar. But not being able to seek isn't actually that important because either clicking there straight up doesn't work or it takes you to a position in the video that often enough is more than 50% of the video length off the position you clicked on. Meanwhile the native video player in any browser on Android supports not only Google Cast but is also extremely fast, has a dedicated volume control, and supports seeking down to pixel-perfect accuracy. They also don't create seizure-inducing flickering when you try to maximize them. Whoever gave this video player the green light for production use needs to be forced to use it for everything they want to watch until they made it usable.
  - ericbarrett 6y ago
    All the same issues on iOS and macOS. Only my Windows desktop plays them on the first click.
ListenLinda 6y ago
I can definitely spend a lot of time on this website.
jgilias 6y ago
Very nice! I don't know how I feel about the fact that people will for sure use this to browse porn. I mean, I guess it's one of the envisioned use cases given how the NSFW toggle adds a bunch of convenient shortcuts to the top of the additional subreddit list.
- chairmanwow1 6y ago
  Why does it matter? Lots of people watch porn and yet we treat it like it’s something weird and sensitive.
  - bogdanteodoru 6y ago
    Exacly. Unfortunatelly I don't have that much control over the feed if Reddit doesn't properly make the subreddit +18
    - jgilias 6y ago
      I think you've found a very reasonable way how to deal with it using the NSFW toggle. If some subreddits aren't properly marked that's on them. Btw, I think I found a bug. On mobile tapping on 'more subreddits' initially doesn't work for me. After I tap on top and then get back to the subreddit menu, it starts working. All in all very nice, thanks for making this!
    - bogdanteodoru 6y ago
      OK, thanks for spotting that! I will see what the issue is.
  - jgilias 6y ago
    That's why I said I can't figure out what I think about that. I mean, on one hand I don't view watching porn as something immoral or whatever. On the other hand, it does seem somewhat sad that anything that can in principle be used for porn overwhelmingly will be.
    - 6y ago
fungos 6y ago
Very nice, but can you enable video controls?
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  So I'm using the embed code that Reddit provides. Are we talking about Reddit videos or other provider videos?
wmab 6y ago
This is great to show the ability of aggregating videos from Reddit. I'd say a better use case would be to turn it into a news feed of subreddits you follow - Instagram stories, Tik Tok with autoplay right in the feed. It irritates me to have to click into each one to see if I'm interested, but good work.
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  There are some limitations on provides that I can aggregate videos for but you can you can add your favourite subreddits to ... favourites and you will see a feed from them on the homepage.
throwaway815190 6y ago
Youtube should hire you to redesign their site. Simple, fast, and easy to use. Nicely done.
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  Haha! Thanks.
mey 6y ago
Firefox seems to be respecting CORS, where Chrome does not, which is interesting. As a result the site doesn't work on Firefox. (at least for me). Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/search.json?q=(site:v.redd.it%20OR%20site:youtube.com%20OR%20site:vimeo.com%20OR%20site:youtu.be%20OR%20site:twitch.tv%20OR%20site:gfycat.com%20OR%20site:streamable.com%20OR%20site:tiktok.com%20OR%20site:livestream.com%20OR%20site:dailymotion.com%20OR%20site:rumble.com%20OR%20site:liveleak.com%20OR%20site:gifs.com%20OR%20site:giphy.com%20OR%20site:redgifs.com%20OR%20site:bandcamp.com)%20NOT%20url:feature=share%20NOT%20url:vm.tiktok.com%20NOT%20url:music.youtube.com&t=hour&sort=comments&sr_detail=on&limit=12&nsfw=no&include_over_18=no. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Edit: As noted below, if you are running Firefox in Strict privacy protection, it blocks the XHR requests. Whitelisting this site will allow it to work.
- glass_of_water 6y ago
  I had the same issue; I think the error message is wrong. The reason it's not working is that tracking protection is blocking XHR requests to www.reddit.com. If you disable tracking protection or whitelist www.reddit.com it should work.
  - mey 6y ago
    I do have privacy settings on Strict, and clicking the shield indicated reddit.com was one of the ones blocked.
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  For me it works. Just tested on latest Firefox, Mac.
ElectronShak 6y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing, great work on the UI!
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  Thank you!
phenkdo 6y ago
awesome idea! great implementation.
JaTochNietDan 6y ago
I actually created something similar to this a while back when Reddit TV was taken down. Would love if you guys could check it out. It’s https://viddit.app https://viddit.app It’s really only meant to work on desktop though.
rement 6y ago
edit: Looks like it's just Firefox blocking CORS
thrownaway954 6y ago
This site works awesome. hats off to you truly. there is one things that would make this site as useful as youtube and thats having the to and left site side fixed so they don't go away when you scroll down. this is how youtube has their site and i'm sure that's who are trying to mimic and that's what people are used to.
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  Initially it was like that but I've changed it. I guess I can revert the changes back. Thanks for the kind words :)
weixiyen 6y ago
this is amazing, replaces reddit for me as the videos are the best part, esp the new reddit which loads way too slow

72 points by bogdanteodoru 6y ago

visarga 6y ago

I like it. What do you think about making it autoplay when opening a video?

bogdanteodoru 6y ago
Unfortunately I saw that sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. On desktop is working better than mobile. I'm just using the code Reddit provides for embed so not sure if that actually possible.

sgeorge96 6y ago

Pretty cool!

bogdanteodoru 6y ago
Thanks. Appreciate it.

londons_explore 6y ago

Very nice and quick. The actual videos load slowly, but I assume that's a limitation of reddits video player.

bogdanteodoru 6y ago
Yeah so I have NO BACKEND. Everything is shown using the Reddit JSON Api. I just made it search for specific URLs etc. The embeds come from Reddit itself and I have "almost" no control over them.
- frankramos 6y ago
  This is incredible. Do you have a public github repository. I am learning Vue.js and this seems like a great project to learn layout structure?
  - bogdanteodoru 6y ago
    Not yet but I plan to release it in the near future. I will put a not to remind you here when it's done.

sschueller 6y ago

Thanks for the download button. I hate how reddit decided they own the content now and don't let you download.

bogdanteodoru 6y ago
Sure thing :)
frfl 6y ago
fyi for anyone who doesn't know, youtube-dl will let you download videos from various sites, including reddit, twitter. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/ https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
foepys 6y ago
This is especially infuriating since reddit's video player on any Android mobile browser is utter garbage. It hangs constantly because of its poor performance, loads the video extremely slowly, and doesn't support seeking in any audio-less video because a click maximized the video instead of showing a seekbar. But not being able to seek isn't actually that important because either clicking there straight up doesn't work or it takes you to a position in the video that often enough is more than 50% of the video length off the position you clicked on. Meanwhile the native video player in any browser on Android supports not only Google Cast but is also extremely fast, has a dedicated volume control, and supports seeking down to pixel-perfect accuracy. They also don't create seizure-inducing flickering when you try to maximize them. Whoever gave this video player the green light for production use needs to be forced to use it for everything they want to watch until they made it usable.
- ericbarrett 6y ago
  All the same issues on iOS and macOS. Only my Windows desktop plays them on the first click.

ListenLinda 6y ago

I can definitely spend a lot of time on this website.

jgilias 6y ago

Very nice! I don't know how I feel about the fact that people will for sure use this to browse porn. I mean, I guess it's one of the envisioned use cases given how the NSFW toggle adds a bunch of convenient shortcuts to the top of the additional subreddit list.

chairmanwow1 6y ago
Why does it matter? Lots of people watch porn and yet we treat it like it’s something weird and sensitive.
- bogdanteodoru 6y ago
  Exacly. Unfortunatelly I don't have that much control over the feed if Reddit doesn't properly make the subreddit +18
  - jgilias 6y ago
    I think you've found a very reasonable way how to deal with it using the NSFW toggle. If some subreddits aren't properly marked that's on them. Btw, I think I found a bug. On mobile tapping on 'more subreddits' initially doesn't work for me. After I tap on top and then get back to the subreddit menu, it starts working. All in all very nice, thanks for making this!
  - bogdanteodoru 6y ago
    OK, thanks for spotting that! I will see what the issue is.
- jgilias 6y ago
  That's why I said I can't figure out what I think about that. I mean, on one hand I don't view watching porn as something immoral or whatever. On the other hand, it does seem somewhat sad that anything that can in principle be used for porn overwhelmingly will be.
  - 6y ago

fungos 6y ago

Very nice, but can you enable video controls?

bogdanteodoru 6y ago
So I'm using the embed code that Reddit provides. Are we talking about Reddit videos or other provider videos?

wmab 6y ago

This is great to show the ability of aggregating videos from Reddit. I'd say a better use case would be to turn it into a news feed of subreddits you follow - Instagram stories, Tik Tok with autoplay right in the feed. It irritates me to have to click into each one to see if I'm interested, but good work.

bogdanteodoru 6y ago
There are some limitations on provides that I can aggregate videos for but you can you can add your favourite subreddits to ... favourites and you will see a feed from them on the homepage.

throwaway815190 6y ago

Youtube should hire you to redesign their site. Simple, fast, and easy to use. Nicely done.

bogdanteodoru 6y ago
Haha! Thanks.

mey 6y ago

Firefox seems to be respecting CORS, where Chrome does not, which is interesting. As a result the site doesn't work on Firefox. (at least for me). Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/search.json?q=(site:v.redd.it%20OR%20site:youtube.com%20OR%20site:vimeo.com%20OR%20site:youtu.be%20OR%20site:twitch.tv%20OR%20site:gfycat.com%20OR%20site:streamable.com%20OR%20site:tiktok.com%20OR%20site:livestream.com%20OR%20site:dailymotion.com%20OR%20site:rumble.com%20OR%20site:liveleak.com%20OR%20site:gifs.com%20OR%20site:giphy.com%20OR%20site:redgifs.com%20OR%20site:bandcamp.com)%20NOT%20url:feature=share%20NOT%20url:vm.tiktok.com%20NOT%20url:music.youtube.com&t=hour&sort=comments&sr_detail=on&limit=12&nsfw=no&include_over_18=no. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Edit: As noted below, if you are running Firefox in Strict privacy protection, it blocks the XHR requests. Whitelisting this site will allow it to work.

glass_of_water 6y ago
I had the same issue; I think the error message is wrong. The reason it's not working is that tracking protection is blocking XHR requests to www.reddit.com. If you disable tracking protection or whitelist www.reddit.com it should work.
- mey 6y ago
  I do have privacy settings on Strict, and clicking the shield indicated reddit.com was one of the ones blocked.
bogdanteodoru 6y ago
For me it works. Just tested on latest Firefox, Mac.

ElectronShak 6y ago

Wow, thanks for sharing, great work on the UI!

bogdanteodoru 6y ago
Thank you!

phenkdo 6y ago

awesome idea! great implementation.

JaTochNietDan 6y ago

I actually created something similar to this a while back when Reddit TV was taken down. Would love if you guys could check it out. It’s https://viddit.app https://viddit.app It’s really only meant to work on desktop though.

rement 6y ago

edit: Looks like it's just Firefox blocking CORS

thrownaway954 6y ago

This site works awesome. hats off to you truly. there is one things that would make this site as useful as youtube and thats having the to and left site side fixed so they don't go away when you scroll down. this is how youtube has their site and i'm sure that's who are trying to mimic and that's what people are used to.

bogdanteodoru 6y ago
Initially it was like that but I've changed it. I guess I can revert the changes back. Thanks for the kind words :)

weixiyen 6y ago

this is amazing, replaces reddit for me as the videos are the best part, esp the new reddit which loads way too slow