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Videos are much more efficient than apngs or gifs, though, and it's just as easy to allow downloads (unless they're using variable bitrates which are a bit poin

by nsgi 5y ago

Videos are much more efficient than apngs or gifs, though, and it's just as easy to allow downloads (unless they're using variable bitrates which are a bit pointless for short animations anyway)

staplers 5y ago
Most messaging platforms/chatrooms won't autoplay video. Which in the context of quick "reactions" doesn't work well at all.
ganzuul 5y ago
(Are we talking about Reddit's terrible videos?) I would have expected them to have fixed the obvious issue with their UI by now.
- tdeck 5y ago
  > I would have expected them to have fixed the obvious issue with their UI by now. Are we talking about the same Reddit that still runs three different versions of their website because the newest version is so bad that people refuse to use it? I'm not holding my breath.
  - ganzuul 5y ago
    I did mentally facepalm after I wrote that. They seem to be following the 'ooh shiny' philosophy of software development.
gsich 5y ago
Unless they have a loop indicator in the file it's not a GIF replacement.
ben0x539 5y ago
It's just as easy to allow downloads, but it seems a lot more common for sites to go out of their way to disallow video downloads than gif downloads. Also a bunch of them use video tags that don't point to an actual video file but get fed video content out of band.
- yoursunny 5y ago
  I'm "guilty" of this on my video site https://pushups.ndn.today https://pushups.ndn.today (does not work on iOS). So far one person figured out how to download those videos, after spending 4 hours studying my source code.
  - pbhjpbhj 5y ago
    I've got to imagine that comment as leading to a honeypot; what I heard "prove you're a good hacker by downloading video from my site". This is the web nerd equivalent of sitting next to a petrol-head at the traffic lights revving your engine.

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Videos are much more efficient than apngs or gifs, though, and it's just as easy to allow downloads (unless they're using variable bitrates which are a bit poin

by nsgi 5y ago

Videos are much more efficient than apngs or gifs, though, and it's just as easy to allow downloads (unless they're using variable bitrates which are a bit pointless for short animations anyway)

staplers 5y ago
Most messaging platforms/chatrooms won't autoplay video. Which in the context of quick "reactions" doesn't work well at all.
ganzuul 5y ago
(Are we talking about Reddit's terrible videos?) I would have expected them to have fixed the obvious issue with their UI by now.
- tdeck 5y ago
  > I would have expected them to have fixed the obvious issue with their UI by now. Are we talking about the same Reddit that still runs three different versions of their website because the newest version is so bad that people refuse to use it? I'm not holding my breath.
  - ganzuul 5y ago
    I did mentally facepalm after I wrote that. They seem to be following the 'ooh shiny' philosophy of software development.
gsich 5y ago
Unless they have a loop indicator in the file it's not a GIF replacement.
ben0x539 5y ago
It's just as easy to allow downloads, but it seems a lot more common for sites to go out of their way to disallow video downloads than gif downloads. Also a bunch of them use video tags that don't point to an actual video file but get fed video content out of band.
- yoursunny 5y ago
  I'm "guilty" of this on my video site https://pushups.ndn.today https://pushups.ndn.today (does not work on iOS). So far one person figured out how to download those videos, after spending 4 hours studying my source code.
  - pbhjpbhj 5y ago
    I've got to imagine that comment as leading to a honeypot; what I heard "prove you're a good hacker by downloading video from my site". This is the web nerd equivalent of sitting next to a petrol-head at the traffic lights revving your engine.