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Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 198 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

no seek bar

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

[–] GayThrowaway@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actually there on mobile, just hidden.

[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 7 points 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.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Even TikTok has a seek bar and has for a long time.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I use it all time. What are you talking about?

[–] Owljfien@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus no volume control so you often get instantly ear blasted

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That's a mobile thing, it's because having two volume controls was awkward

[–] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 12 points 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

[–] zikk_transport2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 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

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a seek bar, is it because I'm using Revanced? I just that ot was there

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty sure that's one of the Revanced patches.

[–] abcxyz@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the regular app and the seekbar was always available for me.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm. Guess I was wrong about that then.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 points 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.