First they remove community styles.
Then they remove the ability to preview posts.
Then they remove the perfectly fine basic formatting tools.
Then they remove the video controls while in fullscreen.
Now they remove the fullscreen button entirely(???).
They also removed volume control, only does muted or unmuted 🤡
Still working on some videos, but not on others.
What's next, removing sound completely? Removing colors, so videos are black and white only?
Oh, I know, remove all the controls and make the videos autoplay, without any way to pause, let alone going back and forth in the video. What is this youtube shorts cringe u/C just because big tech is being retarded, doesn't mean you have to copy their dog shit design.
> Still working on some videos, but not on others.
This exactly bothers me a lot recently. Absolutely retarded to just take it out. Why? Why?! Just to be fucking annoying? Because some idea of minimalism?
Ah yes, let's be fancy and modern with cars. Let's remove the fucking steering wheel. Amazing idea.
We have MP4 video posts, and we used to use a custom HTML5 video player for that.
We also have custom tweet embeds:
- to preserve user privacy
- because the official tweet embed is very heavy
- because the official tweet embed blocks VPNs and even residential IPs at random
Tweets sometimes contain videos, of course. Twitter videos usually require HLS video streaming, rather than MP4. This is where it serves small chunks of the video. The default HTML5 video player does not support this.
We used to use a library (video player) called videojs for the tweet embed videos. A library is required for HLS video streaming.
videojs is very heavy (up to 600kb) and ugly.
Having two different video players, one being very heavy and ugly, was not ideal. We unified the custom video player (MP4s) and the tweet video player, which involved switching to another solution.
There was an issue where the fullscreen button was not showing in some situations - this is now fixed on desktop and shortly on mobile.
I happen to have some PiP extension, where if you make it large enough (half the screen), a volume slider shows up (it also has no settings, they "optimized" it).
If you could add that, I'd really appreciate it.
Will try to add it back.
Can't it just sit next to the speaker icon, like it always has?
Or if you want to use that, might as well use a big ass slider, so you can at least set the volume accurately. Volume control with mouse wheel is also kinda handy.