| Micolithe |
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| Agender |
| 36 years old |
| Philadelphia, PA |
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| Last Login: 08/30/2007 |
Agender Enby, Trans, Gay, AND the bearer of the gamer's curse. Not a man, not a woman, but instead I am puppy.
I got a fat ass and big ears.
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Yes I did the cooking mama Let's Play way back when. I post alot about Tech (mostly how it sucks) and Cooking and Music and Television Shows and the occasional Let's Play video
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We all do what we can ♫
So we can do just one more thing ♫
We can all be free ♫
Maybe not in words ♫
Maybe not with a look ♫
But with your mind ♫
what the fuck, it doesn't give you controls for scrubbing through the video. I missed the beginning of the video someone linked to and my options were refresh the page or wait for it to loop. Why would anyone want it to work this way?
I uploaded a video of a song I made in like 2008, the intro track is less than 60 seconds and the aspect ratio is Square (aka 1:1) so it parsed it as a Short when it Should Not Be a Short and I have no way to fix it unless I re-encode it as 16:9
They suck so bad. Youtube trying to compete with Tiktok in the most half-assed way possible
The Youtube Redux extension can turn Youtube Shorts back into normal videos
I use a different browser extension, there are a bunch. YouTube shorts have been a problem for me so this is the only way I can use YouTube now, like I just had to delete the app on my phone too.
I think the answer is basically "it's designed solely for the mobile UI". At least on tiktok (I've never used YT shorts but I assume it works similarly?) there's a threshold of video length below which it won't let you scrub, and as best as I can tell the reason is probably that they found scrubbing on a phone too clunky below like 20s or whatever
It's not a good reason and it really should have a toggleable "always enable scrubbing" option, but,
really didn't expect to find something that made tiktok's desktop interface seem good. If nothing else, I'm surprised it doesn't have a 'restart' button
there's a way to access them as normal videos, at least on the mobile app. the bad part is that i dont know how to consistently pull it off it seems random
On teh browser, u can replace urls of teh form
youtube.com/shorts/ABunchOfStuff
to teh form:
youtube.com/watch?v=ABunchOfStuff
Which fur me has worked consistently in making it a normal bideo, at leasf fur now. On teh app (which I don't use too much, admitedly) teh only way I managed to do it consistently was by searching teh video title or url and saving it in "watch later", which puts it in a playlist which makes it a normal mideo.
when i first tried tiktok, i expected to be able to scrub the video. some other apps have swipe left/right to scrub and tiktok isn't using that gesture. but no. who needs scrubbing anyway i guess.
My YouTube client has started showing Shorts on the main page and I have clicked (then afterwards regretted wasting my time on) about three of them. Thankfully it does not show them in channel views.
