This is user hostile:
"Previously, users have only been able to pause videos on Instagram Reels by tapping and holding on their screen."
But still... A feature announcement for a fucking pause button is deranged.
On Android one can install NewPipe and have a better experience (then again, yesterday NewPipe failed to load any video for me, I guess YouTube updated their obfuscation code).
The one and only supported image resolution is also lower than any of the screens I use.
The app is really hard to believe from a technical perspective, in general.
Seeing them turned into regular videos shows how ridiculously stupid their format and user experience is.
Lack of a progress bar you can skip through is what's been missing compared to TikTok.
Or was this just not a thing for US users specifically?
That’s why some suggest that the recent regulatory assaults, cozying up to would be dictators and forced changing of ownership to American corporations is just manufactured corporate raiding by competitors that can’t keep up.
Also it's possible to add videos as a "post" (the OG data model), and they're not reels, and these don't seem to have scrolling capability.
Gotta love the "Let's just throw a bunch of crap onto this thing" architectural design. I remember when Reels (the part that is full of reposted TikTok videos and girls in skimpy clothes advertising their OnlyFans) was called IGTV...
Tapping some URLs will inconsistently get you to the page too without having to do any URL replacement. I don’t think there’s any intended logic there, just some bugs in the way URLs get handled hopping from social media app to browser to social media app since most of them try to keep you silo’d in.
What you're describing is a bit different(It's probably implemented like this because old videos that weren't initially uploaded as shorts were absorbed into shorts if they fit the correct criteria)
I commend this level of diligence! The feature is only 2 weeks old: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-youtube-premium-fea...
As far as I can tell YouTube itself tends to be pretty similar, but features come first for Android, I think PiP for shorts is out of beta in Android, but as you mentioned just getting tested on iOS