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Comment on Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube

Might? It already has.

If shorts were simply a separate section of YouTube with all of its functionality, then that’s understandable. But as they stand, shorts are just YouTube with both reduced functionality (forced vertical aspect ratio, no seek bar, time limit) AND all of the existing flaws (bad recommendation algorithm, reposted content, etc. )

Unless you are some kind of tech contrarian hipster, I don’t think there is one thing that YouTube shorts does better than TikTok, or heck, Instagram Reels.

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TurboLag@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

no seek bar

I really don’t understand who thought that removing the seek bar from a video player was a good idea…

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- GayThrowaway@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s actually there on mobile, just hidden.
  
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  - TurboLag@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I only tried it on desktop. There’s a tiny progress bar at the bottom, but you can’t interact with it.
    
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- MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Even TikTok has a seek bar and has for a long time.
  
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- WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I use it all time. What are you talking about?
  
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Owljfien@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Plus no volume control so you often get instantly ear blasted

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- Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s a mobile thing, it’s because having two volume controls was awkward
  
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liquidparasyte@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It technically has a seekbar, but it’s very hard to find and/or might be obscured by their capricious A/B randomized testing

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zikk_transport2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

shorts are just YouTube with both reduced functionality (forced vertical aspect ratio, no seek bar, time limit) AND all of the existing flaws (bad recommendation algorithm, reposted content, etc. )

Youtube experience in a nutshell lol

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AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have a seek bar, is it because I’m using Revanced? I just that ot was there

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- MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Pretty sure that’s one of the Revanced patches.
  
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  - abcxyz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I use the regular app and the seekbar was always available for me.
    
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    MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hmm. Guess I was wrong about that then.
    
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  - SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nope, official app has a seek bar on the bottom (I was using vanced before but had to reset my password which reset the login cookie and I am not trying to delete my downloads of years by trying to sign back in)
    
    P.S. I have too many downloads, so if anyone has a method to extract them, I’ll be thankful.
    
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