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.
I am viewing it on a phone. Instead of having a usable UI and a viewable video, it takes every square mm of screen and shoves everything into a mess that can’t be paused or minimised. It’s hostile to any action that isn’t consuming more.
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.
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.
It’s made to be viewed on a phone.
I am viewing it on a phone. Instead of having a usable UI and a viewable video, it takes every square mm of screen and shoves everything into a mess that can’t be paused or minimised. It’s hostile to any action that isn’t consuming more.
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.