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Video with seekable interface: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLEOiQdDkzk https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLEOiQdDkzk (at least on desktop; YMMV) Geez, TikTok (ba

Video with seekable interface: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLEOiQdDkzk https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLEOiQdDkzk (at least on desktop; YMMV) Geez, TikTok (basically) content on HN...

skyyler 3y ago
s/embed/v https://www.youtube.com/v/fLEOiQdDkzk https://www.youtube.com/v/fLEOiQdDkzk this gives you a normal looking youtube page
scohesc 3y ago
That's the most frustrating part for me with Tiktok, Youtube shorts, instagram etc. I wish you could scrobble through a video - it's more frustrating on Youtube because you always could and now all of a sudden you can't, and now videos 60 seconds or less get auto-converted into shorts (from what I've understood). Very annoying. Whoever designed this knew what they were doing on an addictions/product/customer retainment level because it sure wasn't a usability/UI engineer that made this decision.
- mxmilkiib 3y ago
  I just realised the other day after many many months that one can scrub through IG Reels with the bar at the bottom.
  - netsharc 3y ago
    I think only for reels which are longer than a certain time length...
jader201 3y ago
Regardless of the UI, I really don't like the video trends that are popular these days, including: - Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence. - Always shot vertically. - Every. Word. Appearing. In. The. Middle. Of. The. Screen. As. Its. Spoken. Sorry for the tangential rant.
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- jwineinger 3y ago
  I appreciate having captions b/c I'm often watching in situations where I don't want to or can't hear audio.
  - jader201 3y ago
    Even so, I much prefer normal captions with full sentences vs. words popping on and off the screen at 10 words per second. Could you imagine consuming normal content that way (e.g. HN threads)? That would be anxiety inducing (and honestly, these types of videos are probably causing some level of anxiety to some people without them even realizing it).
    - netsharc 3y ago
      On that topic, ever noticed how ChatGPT's answers are animated?
- dylan604 3y ago
  > - Always shot horizontally. you mean vertically?
  - jader201 3y ago
    Indeed, fixed!
- MerelyMortal 3y ago
  > Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence. I appreciate the brevity. I hate videos that are longer than necessary. I really hate the videos that are about 10 minutes long (the advertising sweet spot), containing content that could have been delivered in 30-45 seconds without all of the "like", "subscribe", how they're feeling that day, etc.
tric 3y ago
> Geez, TikTok (basically) content on HN... The aggression, quick cuts, single word subtitles... I don't understand the appeal of this style. I wonder how people will look back at this era of video editing in 10 years.
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- hindsightbias 3y ago
  OK boomer, strike that, 20-something? In 10 years something even more horrible will be hip and tiktok'ers will be whatever dated slang there is for big yikes.

Video with seekable interface: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLEOiQdDkzk https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLEOiQdDkzk (at least on desktop; YMMV) Geez, TikTok (basically) content on HN...

skyyler 3y ago

s/embed/v https://www.youtube.com/v/fLEOiQdDkzk https://www.youtube.com/v/fLEOiQdDkzk this gives you a normal looking youtube page

scohesc 3y ago

That's the most frustrating part for me with Tiktok, Youtube shorts, instagram etc. I wish you could scrobble through a video - it's more frustrating on Youtube because you always could and now all of a sudden you can't, and now videos 60 seconds or less get auto-converted into shorts (from what I've understood). Very annoying. Whoever designed this knew what they were doing on an addictions/product/customer retainment level because it sure wasn't a usability/UI engineer that made this decision.

mxmilkiib 3y ago
I just realised the other day after many many months that one can scrub through IG Reels with the bar at the bottom.
- netsharc 3y ago
  I think only for reels which are longer than a certain time length...

jader201 3y ago

Regardless of the UI, I really don't like the video trends that are popular these days, including: - Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence. - Always shot vertically. - Every. Word. Appearing. In. The. Middle. Of. The. Screen. As. Its. Spoken. Sorry for the tangential rant.

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jwineinger 3y ago
I appreciate having captions b/c I'm often watching in situations where I don't want to or can't hear audio.
- jader201 3y ago
  Even so, I much prefer normal captions with full sentences vs. words popping on and off the screen at 10 words per second. Could you imagine consuming normal content that way (e.g. HN threads)? That would be anxiety inducing (and honestly, these types of videos are probably causing some level of anxiety to some people without them even realizing it).
  - netsharc 3y ago
    On that topic, ever noticed how ChatGPT's answers are animated?
dylan604 3y ago
> - Always shot horizontally. you mean vertically?
- jader201 3y ago
  Indeed, fixed!
MerelyMortal 3y ago
> Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence. I appreciate the brevity. I hate videos that are longer than necessary. I really hate the videos that are about 10 minutes long (the advertising sweet spot), containing content that could have been delivered in 30-45 seconds without all of the "like", "subscribe", how they're feeling that day, etc.

tric 3y ago

> Geez, TikTok (basically) content on HN... The aggression, quick cuts, single word subtitles... I don't understand the appeal of this style. I wonder how people will look back at this era of video editing in 10 years.

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hindsightbias 3y ago
OK boomer, strike that, 20-something? In 10 years something even more horrible will be hip and tiktok'ers will be whatever dated slang there is for big yikes.