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.
no seek bar
I really don't understand who thought that removing the seek bar from a video player was a good idea...
It's actually there on mobile, just hidden.
I only tried it on desktop. There's a tiny progress bar at the bottom, but you can't interact with it.
Even TikTok has a seek bar and has for a long time.
I use it all time. What are you talking about?
It technically has a seekbar, but it's very hard to find and/or might be obscured by their capricious A/B randomized testing
I have a seek bar, is it because I'm using Revanced? I just that ot was there
Pretty sure that's one of the Revanced patches.
I use the regular app and the seekbar was always available for me.
Hmm. Guess I was wrong about that then.
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.
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.
I really don't understand who thought that removing the seek bar from a video player was a good idea...
It's actually there on mobile, just hidden.
I only tried it on desktop. There's a tiny progress bar at the bottom, but you can't interact with it.
Even TikTok has a seek bar and has for a long time.
I use it all time. What are you talking about?
It technically has a seekbar, but it's very hard to find and/or might be obscured by their capricious A/B randomized testing
I have a seek bar, is it because I'm using Revanced? I just that ot was there
Pretty sure that's one of the Revanced patches.
I use the regular app and the seekbar was always available for me.
Hmm. Guess I was wrong about that then.
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.