Reddit shared updates on its ongoing venture to revamp its video participant.
The platform mentioned it can concentrate on 4 main areas the place suggestions from Redditors indicated that enhancements are wanted:
- Efficiency: Reddit mentioned it has lowered every day cellular playback errors by 68% since starting the venture.
- Dialog: The platform will introduce a swipe-left gesture over the subsequent few months with a picture-in-picture characteristic that lets Redditors scroll by means of a full display of feedback with out shedding sight of the video.
- Context: Reddit defined in a weblog publish, “In the meanwhile, while you view a video in full display and swipe, the subsequent video in your feed comes from a suggestion. However the fact is, generally you simply want an infinite scroll of the newest cat loafs (cat loaves?), and we’re right here to assist. Quickly, in case you enter the full-screen participant by means of 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 by means of all of the media that your feed has to supply.”
- Consistency: Reddit famous that there are at the moment too some ways on its software to navigate out and in of various sorts of media, and it plans to streamline its media participant over the subsequent few weeks to supply a uniform expertise for commenting, getting into and exiting posts, attending to the subsequent publish or video seamlessly, shitposting and upvoting.
