Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News?

http://reddit.TV

by kn0thing • 17 years ago

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reddit.tv

Mystalic2• 17 years ago

Is this a mashup of Reddit or from Reddit itself?

Mystalic2• 17 years ago

Nevermind, just read the Reddit blog post -looks great!

dfield• 17 years ago

This looks awesome, Alexis! What a great idea.

pg2• 17 years ago

Looks great, very simple. But the back button doesn't work: instead of going back to the site you came from, it goes to another vid.

jmtulloss2• 17 years ago

I think that's intentional? For me it went back to the tab I had just clicked on, and eventually back to HN. This could be by design.

"Back button being broken" is one of those usability nightmares. It's important to get it right, but on an AJAX page, what's right? Always go back to the site you came from, or go back to the previous action on your page?

I think in this case they got it wrong, but there are plenty of sites where this is correct.

joepestro2• 17 years ago

In this case, changing the anchor also allows you to link to videos directly - like http://reddit.tv/#20090429-15/sports/1

Then, once on the page, you can change categories/videos without a full page reload. The anchor content controls which video you see. So I think they got it right here.

kineticac3• 17 years ago

It's definitely intentional. History management is more than switching from one hard reload to another, it's now used to go back to content that you had just viewed. A little more intuitive with all the javascript loading, many javascript loading pages use this to keep their site working with browser navigation.

pg2• 17 years ago

Back isn't showing me stuff I previously viewed. It's showing me new stuff I've never seen before.

joepestro2• 17 years ago

when you change videos, your browser url changes to reflect that. the back button is then navigating to your previous anchor. this is the same technique used to maintain ajax states in apps like gmail.

vaksel2• 17 years ago

So who wants to predict how long it'll take Digg to jump on the bandwagon?

decode• 17 years ago

While the user interface is very different, the functionality is fairly similar to what digg Videos has been for a long time.

http://digg.com/videos/

vaksel2• 17 years ago

Thats just a subcategory. Reddit has a video subreddit too: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/

maukdaddy• 17 years ago

It's great...except for those of us working in places where Youtube is blocked. =(

kn0thing• 17 years ago

Email me the contact info of your employer and we'll send over some hired goons.

rms• 17 years ago

Surely that is why you have a VPN through your VPS set up.

biohacker423• 17 years ago

What happens if google shuts down or demands pay for youtube?

biohacker423• 17 years ago

It's a question people, I'm not endorsing the idea that google should or will do that.

volida• 17 years ago

YouTube embeds ads in videos.

biohacker423• 17 years ago

Right, but last I heard it's still bleeding cash.

ivankirigin2• 17 years ago

You win at the internet http://reddit.tv/#20090429-15/wtf/5

vulpes• 17 years ago

While this comment is pretty low quality for HN, it lead me to discover a bug: links are not persistent. Thats not good for virability of the site.

ivankirigin2• 17 years ago

hmm they even look like they would be. Also my comment was somewhat about reddit, but I'll take the karma hit out of principle

Dauntless• 17 years ago

It is quite addicting. I think it would be nice to be able to vote direct from this page... if it can be made in a discreet way.

jessep• 17 years ago

I like it a lot. Tons of great content and a nice layout. I like that you feature TED.

It has a lot of overlap with stumble video (http://video.stumbleupon.com/).

chime• 17 years ago

Nobody's going to believe me but this is almost exactly what I dreamed of last night. I started the http://www.reddit.com/r/video/ subreddit long ago and just last night I had a dream that someone used the content from that and a few other subreddits to make reddit.TV. My dream algorithm used only the highly rated videos and kept the riff-raff out. Also it included the up/down arrows if you're already logged into reddit.

This is definitely a nice way to watch videos. Good job kn0thing and team :)

noor420• 17 years ago

Another neat way to checkout reddit: add your sub-reddits as blocks and view them on a single page >

http://www.redditall.com/

baddox• 17 years ago

I gues I got here late, site is down.

chaosmachine• 17 years ago

I'm using OpenDNS, and reddit.tv doesn't resolve (yet?).

Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News?

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