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Reddit will allow video uploads on certain subreddits:
Social news site Reddit today [August 17] announced the official launch of its video hosting feature, meaning users of certain pre-approved communities can now upload video directly to the site. The feature is already in place as part of a beta testing phase the company began conducting in late June with around 200 existing subreddits. Reddit says it's now ready to expand the feature to other communities, and that those interested can work directly with site moderators and the company's video team to enable the feature.
"We wanted to make sure we controlled the video experience, so we built this from the ground up with our in-house team," says Emon Motamedi, Reddit's product manager for video. "One of the big motivations of doing this was bringing more cohesion around the content and conversations."
Motamedi points to how most videos on Reddit are just YouTube links, or videos chopped up into GIFs hosted by third-party tools like Gfycat. This is usually a cumbersome process, and it's unfriendly to less media savvy internet users. A bigger problem is that it fractures discussion between where the content is hosted and where a user wants to discuss. Usually, Motamedi says, "you go to YouTube to watch the video and you come back to Reddit to comment." That's not ideal. "Because our platform has the best comments on the internet and because it's such a big use case for our users, we wanted to build that in-house," he adds.
The "anti-evil" team will have their work cut out for them.
Also at Reddit's blog and Ars Technica.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @09:05PM (1 child)
> broadly interpreting rules to ban / remove any content right of Stalin while leaving radical SJW "anti-dissent" groups like "shit reddit says" run amok, and only removing pedophile groups after a Donald Trump subreddit uses their weight to draw enough attention to it.
Wait. Is Trump now considered a Stalinist, or are talking out of your ass and contradicted yourself in a single sentence?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @03:23AM
the conspiracy theory is that particular group is one of the largest active ones on the site. the theory goes they are using those numbers to pump up the rest of the site for sale to someone else. the_donald estimates it anywhere from 4 to 1 to 11 to 1 being shown on the counters but full on for the advert rates. reddit has basically tossed anyone who doesnt 'post left' to the_donald. they are hemorrhaging users because the screechy users are getting everyone banned who does not lock step into the correct thinking. the irony is 'the_donald' bans anyone who is not in lock step with their flavor of views. the only differences is the_donald is at least somewhat honest about it. at one point reddit was messing with the alg and made the whole site the_donald because reddit admins had screwed up.
Wait. Is Trump now considered a Stalinist, or are talking out of your ass and contradicted yourself in a single sentence?
maybe it was a typo run on sentence and you are just being a bit too nit picky because it may represent something you do not like? their point was reddit was getting all ban happy on other things they didnt like until the_donald pointed out 'hey you have a child pedo ring on your site'.
lighten up francis.