> If you’ve spent any time on r/HighQualityGifs, r/mealtimevideos, or just about any other Reddit community, you know that videos and gifs represent a major proportion of the content shared on our site. But prior to this launch, content creators had to go through a time-consuming, circuitous process to post videos, using third-party hosting platforms, copying URLs, and sharing them as link posts. This inhibited many users, especially those who capture videos on their phones and want to share them quickly with their favorite subreddits.
I've never heard anyone complain that copying a URL is too onerous.
I don't get what they're plan is. How does a company that is currently losing money plan to make more and be a sustainable enterprise by adding features that only increase their costs? Video uses a lot of bandwidth. Especially compared everything they've done so far (i.e. all text).
They had a good thing going with the mooching off free hosting on YouTube and Imgur. Why kill that? All I see them gaining are a bit more details on how many times someone played a video. And you could probably do that with some custom JS wrapping the YouTube player (guessing here ... not sure how that works in practice).
I've never heard anyone complain that copying a URL is too onerous.
I don't get what they're plan is. How does a company that is currently losing money plan to make more and be a sustainable enterprise by adding features that only increase their costs? Video uses a lot of bandwidth. Especially compared everything they've done so far (i.e. all text).
They had a good thing going with the mooching off free hosting on YouTube and Imgur. Why kill that? All I see them gaining are a bit more details on how many times someone played a video. And you could probably do that with some custom JS wrapping the YouTube player (guessing here ... not sure how that works in practice).