Exactly this! Videos under 6 seconds are often pretty cool, but they player covers the video with buttons, shortcuts are all different, everything is so inaccessible, you get shouted at to consume the next video, and it either takes all the screen space or a tiny sliver.
They work OK for me, but I’m on a PC with a 42" TV for a monitor. Just realized why phone users loathe shorts! And yet, there’s still too much text crap on top of the video.
My problem with them is this and YouTube’s aggressive pushing of them in general and in the wrong places, like any device with a horizontal display (like when using a PC/laptop).
In my opinion vertical videos are better viewed on a vertical display (like a phone) and nowhere else, because everywhere else they look worse. Now that I’m thinking more of this though…I should see if any shmup people are showing off via shorts, 'cause that’d be a good fit.
I have no problem with short form video but I don’t know why every video player for them is terrible
replace /short/ with /v/ and you get the regular UI
Isn’t it
/watch?v=?That works too. YouTube doesn’t care any of its previous URL formats work.
Exactly this! Videos under 6 seconds are often pretty cool, but they player covers the video with buttons, shortcuts are all different, everything is so inaccessible, you get shouted at to consume the next video, and it either takes all the screen space or a tiny sliver.
It’s like talking to a caffeine soaked squirrel.
They work OK for me, but I’m on a PC with a 42" TV for a monitor. Just realized why phone users loathe shorts! And yet, there’s still too much text crap on top of the video.
My problem with them is this and YouTube’s aggressive pushing of them in general and in the wrong places, like any device with a horizontal display (like when using a PC/laptop).
In my opinion vertical videos are better viewed on a vertical display (like a phone) and nowhere else, because everywhere else they look worse. Now that I’m thinking more of this though…I should see if any shmup people are showing off via shorts, 'cause that’d be a good fit.
I can load a normal 1080p video for like 5 minutes before a short will even fucking start.
Idk what’s wrong with them, but shorts are fucking awful to load