Everyone knows what they want to improve in their software. However, I am opening this post to raise awareness on this issue. It’s just a humble request.

As you know, large video subreddits contribute greatly to Reddit reaching a large user base. For example, when you open the homepage, you can see many subreddits such as r/interestingasfuck, r/funny, r/yesyesyesyesno, r/unexpected etc.

Lemmy is Reddit’s alternative for text posts, but unfortunately not for videos at the moment. To fill this gap, I have opened the !yesyesyesno@lemy.lol community and shared a few posts. But these videos are inconsistent between applications and UI’s.

For example;

  • Voyager can open videos inline without any problems.
  • Mlem showing it as URL and opens the browser instead of playing.
  • Lemmy default UI is worst. It doesn’t even show the link. You have to click it’s title to see the video but it’s visually not a link. (looks like this one only occurs on mobile)
  • Alexandrite shows as a link.

Yes, video hosting is expensive. However, before solutions such as torrents and IPFS, we must ensure that direct videos work smoothly. This is my $0.02 opinion.

    • Link@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      41·
      7 months ago

      Absolutely. I’m not someone like who “I’m not doing it but you should do it this way” guy but this particular problem is bigger than a single pull request.

      There are tens of apps/web UI’s with different languages/frameworks. I can’t make PR for all of them :/

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    Lemmy default UI is worst. It doesn’t even show the link. You have to click it’s title to see the video but it’s visually not a link.

    If you click the thumbnail (or the arrow where the thumbnail normally is) it in-lines the video. So it works, it’s just not the most intuitive behaviour.

    • Link@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      32·
      7 months ago

      Are you sure? It’s not like that on me. At least on mobile.

    • Link@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      22·
      7 months ago

      Thanks! I’ve created it months ago. Unfortunately it looks like video support is not improved from then.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    Right now I’m torn. I do not want to host videos. Pictures are expensive enough for me. However, I would like to see videos standardized. As you mentioned every ui handles them differently, I’d like to have a standard way that videos are handled. On the backend, something similar to pictrs would be great to enable/disable videos and enforce things like compression, video length, resolution, and more.

  • Mr.Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I’ve been japping about this forever now. I honestly think this is Lemmys biggest Hurdle at the current moment