The updated video player is unintuitive and difficult to use on mobile, and essentially unusable on a tablet in portrait mode.
It is so strange to see a company making their mobile experience WORSE these days.
Looking at the complaints on the site about the video player UI and the lack of response from Reddit to said complaints, it is speculated that some consultant convinced some Reddit executive that they needed to emulate the TikTok UI to grow their user base. This ignores the fact that TikTok is video-centric, while Reddit is comment-centric, and breaking comment functionality to emulate someone else's video functionality makes no sense at all.
I thought this was just me and my settings! I have a bunch of accessibility things set and thought somehow that was fucking with it. It’s like a dance of flipping just to push that x. Crappy design.
It is so strange to see a company making their mobile experience WORSE these days.
Looking at the complaints on the site about the video player UI and the lack of response from Reddit to said complaints, it is speculated that some consultant convinced some Reddit executive that they needed to emulate the TikTok UI to grow their user base. This ignores the fact that TikTok is video-centric, while Reddit is comment-centric, and breaking comment functionality to emulate someone else's video functionality makes no sense at all.