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There are two things that seem to be necessary for an image host to be successful on Reddit: 1) be extremely fast (why people hate i.minus compared to imgur), a
by peeters 13y ago
There are two things that seem to be necessary for an image host to be successful on Reddit: 1) be extremely fast (why people hate i.minus compared to imgur), and 2) don't provide any content that can have sound.
I don't know what your service speed is like, but you break that second rule which seems really important to Reddit. Redditors don't actually seem to want "more featureful" in a n image host. Gfycat has an unquestionably clear sole purpose: to be a faster "GIF" host (by providing an HTML5 video option).
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoThis is the problem. Take your current code, host it on a different url (gifcrush?) and remove audio support.
- Houshalter 13y agoOr just mute by default, but allow users to click to play sound.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y agoIt remembers your preferred volume, though that feature isn't very discoverable. You could set it to zero and all videos would start muted. Ideas on making that more discoverable?
- munificent 13y ago> Ideas on making that more discoverable? 1. Start off muted. 2. If the user views a video that has sound and is muted, put some small verbiage under the video saying it's muted.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y agoI don't like "start off muted". You can upload proper videos to MediaCrush, why should they be muted? How about a little balloon thingy on the volume UI that tells you it'll be remembered?
- Houshalter 13y agoPerhaps have a separate url for "proper" video? Or an option to turn off the mute by default (as opposed to having it turn off automatically the first time you unmute a video.) Or just require videos with sound to click to play. It's the combination of sound and autoplay that is annoying.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y agoRequire click-to-play on video with audio is a good idea. https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/544 https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/544