• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
      351·
      2 days ago

      Exactly this! Videos under 6 seconds are often pretty cool, but they player covers the video with buttons, shortcuts are all different, everything is so inaccessible, you get shouted at to consume the next video, and it either takes all the screen space or a tiny sliver.

      It’s like talking to a caffeine soaked squirrel.

        • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
          3·
          1 day ago

          I am viewing it on a phone. Instead of having a usable UI and a viewable video, it takes every square mm of screen and shoves everything into a mess that can’t be paused or minimised. It’s hostile to any action that isn’t consuming more.

            • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Just click on it? Really? For the life of me I couldn’t figure that out, probably because single clicking does basically nothing in normal videos.

              I don’t want to use other apps, I want to read comments and descriptions. If I can’t get context there’s no reason for me to be there, and I may as well never open a short to begin with.

              Everything about shorts are designed to shove more noise down your eyes, but I want to learn something. Even the community posts are better for that.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        They work OK for me, but I’m on a PC with a 42" TV for a monitor. Just realized why phone users loathe shorts! And yet, there’s still too much text crap on top of the video.

    • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      My problem with them is this and YouTube’s aggressive pushing of them in general and in the wrong places, like any device with a horizontal display (like when using a PC/laptop).

      In my opinion vertical videos are better viewed on a vertical display (like a phone) and nowhere else, because everywhere else they look worse. Now that I’m thinking more of this though…I should see if any shmup people are showing off via shorts, 'cause that’d be a good fit.

    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      2 days ago

      I can load a normal 1080p video for like 5 minutes before a short will even fucking start.

      Idk what’s wrong with them, but shorts are fucking awful to load

  • undefinedValue@programming.dev
    3·
    1 day ago

    I seem to be able to avoid them in almost all situations except for subscriber notifications. For some reason non-short creators that I subscribed too are now jumping on this trend and their shorts get pushed to me too.

    • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
      19·
      2 days ago

      I normally don’t see people disliking the fact that the videos are short, but the way that they are consumed, is more the fact that the players are horrible and the fact that you are always pushed to watch the next video, and also the screen orientation that only work on phones

    • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      It really feels like “old man yells at cloud” vibes. It’s a different medium that many people do genuinely like, and I find myself watching them as well when they pop up in my subscriptions. YouTube’s push for them and the horrible app experience are worthwhile things to criticize, but shorts can oftentimes be fun to watch