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This was bound to happen. I've never understood why they continued to raise money and develop the product. It's as if they didn't understand the way most people
by kyro 17y ago
This was bound to happen. I've never understood why they continued to raise money and develop the product. It's as if they didn't understand the way most people operate and behave. No one wants to watch a 1 minute video of someone expressing their opinion when I could read the same comment in text in less than 5 seconds. And I've always gotten the impression that those who do actually make video comments, who actually position their camera, look into it, and press record, are those who think their opinion matters a bit more than the rest. Most of the time, from what I've seen, people try to project some sort of personality with their comments, which is fine and all, but that usually, in my opinion, takes away from what they're actually saying. Also, Loic always tried to pull it off as video for Twitter, which is really flawed. Twitter's beauty is in the speed of the information stream. I can glance at tweets tens at a time. You don't get that with video. And I didn't quite understand their raccoon mascot and what they were trying to pull off.
- brandnewlow 17y agoAlso, video comments just look terrible. Awful. How am I supposed to take a video comment seriously when I see some guy in his pajamas with his face scrunched up into the camera? The experience of watching these videos is thoroughly unpleasant.
- quisxt 17y agoIt's also a lot easier to compose and edit text a text comment on the fly than a video comment.
- duskwuff 17y agonod Video is fundamentally not a browseable medium. This is why video blogs never really took off, outside a relatively small and somewhat narcissistic segment: the format requires much more involvement, both on the part of the viewer and the part of the creator, and doesn't give a lot back for it.