Reddit shared updates on its ongoing venture to revamp its video participant.
The platform mentioned it’s going to deal with 4 main areas the place suggestions from Redditors indicated that enhancements are wanted:
- Efficiency: Reddit mentioned it has lowered day by day cellular playback errors by 68% since starting the venture.
- Dialog: The platform will introduce a swipe-left gesture over the following few months with a picture-in-picture characteristic that lets Redditors scroll via a full display screen of feedback with out dropping sight of the video.
- Context: Reddit defined in a weblog publish, “In the meanwhile, if you view a video in full display screen and swipe, the following video in your feed comes from a advice. However the fact is, typically you simply want an infinite scroll of the most recent cat loafs (cat loaves?), and we’re right here to assist. Quickly, in the event you enter the full-screen participant via r/catloaf, we’ll solely present you catloaf-related media. Sooner or later, you’ll be capable of select the feed you’re in, whether or not sticking with r/catloaf or scrolling via all of the media that your feed has to supply.”
- Consistency: Reddit famous that there are presently too some ways on its utility to navigate out and in of various sorts of media, and it plans to streamline its media participant over the following few weeks to offer a uniform expertise for commenting, coming into and exiting posts, attending to the following publish or video seamlessly, shitposting and upvoting.