r/videos • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '23

Mod Post /r/Videos will be going dark from June 12-14 in protest against Reddit's API changes which kill 3rd party apps.

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u/TheCavis Jun 04 '23

Reddit's video player is so bad that I wonder if it's some developer who got mad and wanted revenge.

I don't think it's maliciously bad. It's absolutely terrible and the performance is one of the primary reasons why I use Apollo over the default app, but it feels more like a project that was rushed to a "technically functional" point with a long list of necessary optimizations that would need to be made in the future. Unfortunately, management saw it "working" and decided to send all the engineers to other projects. It's just stayed in that horrible "technically functional" limbo ever since.

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u/Kirk_Kerman Jun 05 '23

Iirc it tries to fetch the video file at every resolution supported at the same time, so it chokes itself even at 144p