@mcc also they converted old videos of mine to shorts without my consent (that's also how I found out that you can watch any short as a regular video by changing the URL)
@mcc i won't swear to it, but when I've seen this it is people who explicitly uploaded content with black letterboxes so that it would play in the shorts player, so the black bars are baked into the video and YouTube doesn't have a great way to know better.
@mcc yeah, fair enough. this particular thing ("why can't the player fix this?") is just the first layer of about 7 that are all directly caused by decisions YouTube had made :)
@crschmidt This is why I think of it as a failure of product design rather than a failure of UX. They simply declined to put any effort into envisioning how the feature fits into users' lives
@richconnergmn One assumes the reason the video is in 9:16 in the first place is because that is the only method YouTube exposed to the poster to get their video into the Shorts stream.
@mcc yeah, unfortunately that's how it is at the moment, and i don't see it changing (though it certainly should). i think that's how it works but i guess i don't know for sure...
@mcc detecting the actual content of a vertical video could fit better on an horizontal display seems out of reach of our recent AI development, quite a shame.
It's so funny how in all the analysis I've seen of the Trump/Biden TikTok ban and what this means for the future, I've not seen one single person make the prediction that this is going to be good for YouTube Shorts. This is because we all understand that Google cannot product develop its way out of a wet paper bag and YouTube Shorts exists exclusively to result in one single successful PowerPoint presentation from one midlevel Google exec to another midlevel Google exec sometime in 2021
@mcc like so much else, I’m convinced Shorts was someone’s promo packet and has largely been ignored since. And I hate how they cover over my whole damn feed in YT.
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