Video Is Coming To Reddit (variety.com) 74
An anonymous reader shares a report from Variety: Videos are coming to Reddit, thanks to a new feature that allows users to upload video clips directly to the service. Reddit rolled out the new video feature Tuesday after testing it with around 200 communities over the past couple of weeks. Reddit users are now able to upload videos of up to 15 minutes in length, with file sizes being limited to 1 gigabyte. Users will be able to upload videos via Reddit's website and its mobile apps for iOS and Android, with the latter offering basic trimming functionality as well. And, in keeping with the spirit of the site, Reddit is also offering a conversion tool to turn videos into animated Gifs. Videos are being displayed persistently, or pinned, meaning that users can scroll through the comments while the video keeps playing in the corner of their screen. And community moderators can opt not to allow videos in their Subreddits at all, with Le arguing that some discussion-heavy Subreddits may decide that the format just doesn't work for them.
At last (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, and they got there before unicode at Slashdot.
Great experiment (Score:2)
I'm sure it's going to work out as well as the optimists think! What could possibly go wrong?
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Porn (Score:3, Funny)
Good. (Score:1)
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The place is pretty much an echo chamber.
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Obvious sarcasm is obvious!!! Sheesh!!
rickroll (Score:1)
Let the rick-rolling begin!
Re:How about fixing the abusive moderation? (Score:4, Insightful)
Unless Reddit is the gubmint, "free speech" is out of context.
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upholding free speech is the responsibility of a free society, not its government. Typically, it's cultures unwilling to deal with uncomfortable truths that seek to silence others, hence the similarities between the left and these neo nazi groups..
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Indeed.
I do find it both troubling and amusing that while you were modded down for saying that the GP was modded up.
Let's try to lay this out so even the biggest "words can hurt me" snowflakes can understand it:
Ok, so "congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise ... or abridging the freedom of speech". We get that. But where does that freedom of speech come from in the first place?
I'll tell you, it's a natural, inalienable right of every person! Natural in that it applies to everyone, inali
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Let's try to lay this out so even the biggest "words can hurt me" snowflakes can understand it:
I don't like replying to myself, but, on reflection, I regret this choice of words.
While I tend to think that, for the most part, offence is taken not given, I am sorry if anyone was offended by this part of what I said.
I stand by the rest of the post though.
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Unless Reddit is the gubmint, "free speech" is out of context.
You have posted this comment in /r/pcmasterrace, you have been automatically banned from /r/politics /r/worldnews /r/twoxchromosomes /r/offmychest /r/rape, 11/25 default subs, etc.
Please enjoy your stay on reddit, where echo chambers reign supreme.
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I have never been to Reddit; don't know any of the TOS; don't know the etiquette; have no motivation to go there.
I do, however, know what freedom of speech is.
Re: How about fixing the abusive moderation? (Score:2)
Free speech should be a social objective, not just a matter of law. No, it needn't be absolute, but it should be the default.
I have no opinion on reddit. I just have an opinion on freedom of expression.
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I question your use of the word, "should."
If you're a legislator pondering the wording of a Constitutional amendment, then fine.
Freedom of speech is a protection against being arrested by the government.
Re:How about fixing the abusive moderation? (Score:5, Informative)
Lefties and proggies don't believe in free speech or liberalism.
Okay, put down the broad brush, and rethink your view of the world.
People, no matter what part of the political spectrum they identify with, are not so easy to pigeon-hole as you want to imagine.
And BTW, there are plenty of lefties and righties who believe in free speech and liberalism (in the sense of liberty.)
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The content you are referring to is truly dangerous.
And that is for me to decide. Not a bunch of SJWs (who thinks the "ok" hand symbol is somehow white power [youtube.com]) to protect the perpetually offended.
The fact that you think you know what I have been watching and say with a straight face that it is "truly dangerous" shows just how full of horseshit that you and your ilk are.
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How soon before we see a "purge" like what his happening now at Youtube with all conservative content?
> conservative content You are so full of shit. God dammit, I swear internet comments get dumber every day.
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But the issues at Youtube are that advertisers are pressuring them to only show their ad on content that doesn't go against the companies guidelines. Film companies don't want their films advertised before a video preaching racial hatred. Seeing as YouTube, Google and the people making the videos rely on ad revenue to fund themselves, the site being perceived a non-advertiser friendly could and has cost them significantly. Even channels that provide news coverage of the recent marches and terrorist attacks
What a laugh (Score:2)
You thought your energy, storage, and bandwidth bills were high before... and you're still not really making any money, and thought this was a good idea?
Try firing your corrupt administration, first. You might have enough money to BEGIN to afford the drain you just put on yourself.
Kotaku in Action (Score:1)
Now we'll finally have a place where gamers can post videos about peacefully putting Jews in ovens.
Why would you turn h264 etc. into gif? (Score:1)
Every single browser can play the modern formats in a thin frame, why would you ever need to use gif? It's a brilliant way to take high-quality video and turn it into something bulky, sluggish, in low fidelity. Are you stupid or something?
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Because some of us prefer 256 color video. Check your privilege.
So The Shills and Bots Can Watch Them? (Score:2)
Does this mean they have to change their name? (Score:2)
Video Is Coming To Reddit (Score:1)
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None of your arguments have anything to do with the medium. Whether Flash or HTML5 video, browsers could implement identical controls. Flash is garbage for *technical* reasons. I'm sure there are already extensions out there to handle disabling autoplay on a site-by-site basis, exactly like we had for Flash. Personally, I *always* set Flash to click-to-play site-wide, and so doing the same for HTML5 video makes perfect sense. This is really a non-issue. The benefits of HTML5 video completely trump this
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yay (Score:2)
More things for reddit to sensor and shadow ban!
Turn videos INTO animated GIFs? Huh? (Score:2)
That is going the wrong direction. Why would anyone want to take a nice video, increase the file size tenfold, and reduce it to 256 colours? That makes no sense.
I've always hated the recent resurgence of this antiquated, terrible image format, but this is a new low. Fuck you Reddit for continuing to spread this garbage.
Just what we need.... (Score:2)