• tpyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    I don’t disagree that you removed the short designation from the link, but what’s the difference between the two? It’s the same video with the same aspect ratio and the same obnoxious subtitles one word at a time. My sound is turned off so if there was a difference there it went unnoticed

    • melvisntnormal@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      7 hours ago

      Speaking for myself here:

      • Shorts loop automatically, something I find annoying
      • Shorts have loads of UI over the video by default; while there is a “clear screen” button in the context menu, it doesn’t persist, and is extra interaction that a normal video doesn’t require
      • It’s easier to scrub through a normal video on mobile; while there is a progress bar at the bottom of a short, you can’t drag up on that bar to get fine-grained seeking

      This is my “old man tells at cloud” moment and I’m okay with that.