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Well the real slimy thing they did was make posts under a minute on YouTube default to a Short.
by HaZeust 4y ago
Well the real slimy thing they did was make posts under a minute on YouTube default to a Short.
- Ekaros 4y agoAnd the browser UI is quite pointless for them... Why even have that? Is it only there to increase the metrics?
- est31 4y agoThe shorts browser UI is a clone of the tiktok UI. I don't really like either, they could have innovated at least a little by introducing more powerful video controls like the seeking shortkeys that work on youtube for example. But it wasn't built to appeal me (or you), but other parts of the population, people who prefer tiktok like experiences. For me personally, the reason to use shorts every now and then is because tiktok is authwalled while shorts is not. But I don't know what other users of shorts would say why they prefer it.
- ok123456 4y agoThey prefer tiktok's content and recommendation system. Just trying to recreate some of the UI aspects of it is just cargo culting.
- charcircuit 4y agoThat's only if it's a vertical video. Most videos on YouTube are horizontal.
- HaZeust 4y agoSortaaaa. I’ve seen horizontal videos that, in the past were standard videos but under 60 seconds, and they were cropped down to Shorts compatibility.