Comment by com2kid

4 days ago

Shorts are up to 3 minutes long now. At this point they are just vertical videos. I fully expect the supported length to keep increasing!

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mcmoor  4 days ago

Vertical videos with much shitter UI. Inability to skip ahead or turn back may be understandable for <30 second videos, but not more.

  • ringer  3 days ago

    Shorts are normal videos too, so you can view them in the normal player.

    I have a redirect rule that redirects https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<video-id> to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<video-id>

  • joe_guy  4 days ago

    And auto repeat, sadly.

    • gwd  3 days ago

      Auto-repeat is the thing that most mystifies me about shorts. I understand the idea behind auto-play, although I disable it; but who on earth wants to watch the exact thing they just watched by default?

      Given the success of TikTok, the answer is apparently, "billions of people", but I just don't get it.

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  • tpxl  3 days ago

    Ctrl + Right click, Show controls will bring up the classic controls (play, pause, volume, seek, full screen) on Firefox. I'm sure other browsers have something similar. Haven't found a way to turn this on permanently for all videos though :/

k4rli  3 days ago

All vertical videos I've uploaded have automatically turned into shorts and there doesn't seem to be a way to toggle this.

left-struck  3 days ago

Nah shorts have a different culture and style. I don’t mean anything technical. For me I can’t stand the style and I avoid it completely.

  • joquarky  3 days ago

    Most of them seem to be sped up so it's impossible to understand any speech unless you're all wired up on stimulants.