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0 pointsAmericanOP5y ago0 comments

The most enraging thing is Reddit took over video hosting themselves, but simply declined to have a mobile/text share option.

Links from any 3rd party service show up in the phone as the content i want to share.

Reddit? You try to send someone a Reddit video link and they get affronted by a pop up banner to download the mobile app when they click through. WTF!

I sent a reddit link to a video to my dad, once. He replied 'cant open it.' So f* off reddit. Allow rehosting or change your content policies. Stop making the internet worse.

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dimator5y ago

On top of this, v.reddit.com is abysmal. Videos stop streaming, the cursor is impossible to use, I don't know how its allowed to exist in its current state.

ORioN635y ago

Videos show the wrong duration, sometimes, as well.

A couple of weeks ago, someone was asking for the full video of what looked like a 10s clip (which also played just 10s). Someone else replied, that it was literally the post. He got downvoted to hell (like below 100). He was right. After checking his comment, I went to the video and by seeking I got it to show the whole 2m and something. This was not the first time this issue has appeared for me.

v.reddit.com is abysmal. I agree.

adrianN5y ago

I have a greasemonkey script to filter out such posts. There is enough content without them.

https://pastebin.com/5fFyiiM7

vorticalbox5y ago

Nice I'm not the only one still using grease monkey :)

read_if_gay_5y ago

It's also useful to auto-redirect to old.reddit without having to log in.

mayankkaizen5y ago

Their video hosting service is pure garbage. It is slow and very often I see pixelated videos even though internet speed is not an issue.

renewiltord5y ago

Most people use the reddit downloader bot to download and send the video. You'll see it summoned in every popular video thread.

eeegnu5y ago

What's frustrating is that many subs will ban the bot, so getting the mirror link requires actually private messaging it. Every once in a while someone who did this will reply to the empty in-thread request with the download / mirror link though.

entropea5y ago

v.reddit videos are nearly impossible to watch on the browser version of Reddit. If you download direct you don't get audio because they stream video and audio independently (I Think). They removed the shortlink to the hosted site on the browser version too. They're really doing a lot of user hostile things for monetization.

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