#tumblr video player

[dyscomancer]

fuck whoever removed the pause button from the tumblr video player. why are we changing shit that has worked for 30 goddamn motherfucking years, stop developing websites like you're Apple

[insert-funny-url-here]

WTF is this new mobile update to the video player???? I can't pause videos anymore and when I scroll up to exit the video and continue on my dash it SCROLLS TO A RANDOM FUCKING VIDEO LIKE TIKTOK. WHO DID THIS???????

[th4t1guylol]

Before you complain about the Gradient Dimension and the Tumblr Video Player, remember the furry face behind the machine. The Tumblr hamsters are trying as hard as they can!

[seasnipper]

hate hate hate the new video player @staff why does it take me aside like that

[crtter]

OK so, I did a bit of experimenting and here’s what I’ve been able to gather re: the new Tumblr video player:

It doesn’t work on blogs, just on your dashboard.

I haven’t come across any NSFW content when I turned the NSFW toggle off. But I suspect this only works if the post has been marked as Mature by the original poster.

It DOES show you related videos, usually from the tags added to it. I scrolled a bit through a video of Elvira and got random stuff from the Elvira tag, the horror tag and the 80s tag. A TikTok of a fish showed me more animal videos and random videos from TikTok.

If there aren’t enough videos in the tags added to the original post, it’ll start showing you GIFs. This doesn’t look very good if the GIF is supposed to be tiny.

If the post hasn’t been tagged at all (or if OP has deactivated, it seems) it seemingly starts showing you videos / GIFs from tags that you’re following or something completely random, which is how I got that sissy fetish video from a video of a talk show interview, I guess. Swiping further on the same video showed me similarly unrelated videos and content from the Osomatsu-san tag, which I’m following.

I could experiment more and I genuinely want to because I’m curious but I can’t rn because I have to attend Zoom therapy, so that’s it for now. Will update this post if I find out more noteworthy stuff.

[cruciatusforeplay]

There are a variety of reasons why I don't like the new media player. I don't like the scrolling tiktok-ification, I find the background colour and text distracting from the images and videos I'm trying to watch, I miss the pause button. But mostly, I hate how often I see this:

About a third of all videos I encounter now just glitch out. Going to people's blogs to view them doesn't fix it, so the only solution I've found is to copy the link into my mobile browser, banish all the suggestions that I download the app, and wouldn't I like to get a Tumblr account of my own and "oh btw we leave cookies tee-hee" to eventually watch the video in my browser.

Like I get it, you're trying new things, you want a fresh userbase, and you think that being identical to every other platform is the way to go (it isn't), but even considering that, do you think that maybe having a consistently *functional* media player might be something we can all enjoy?

[highwarlockofinnsbruck]

what the fuck is this new video player thing tumblr???? what the fuck do u think you are doing? there wasn't even an update it just changed at midnight!

there's no scrolling to the beginning and it doesn't auto play sound when i click on it so i'm just missing the first however many seconds and can't scroll back?????

at least it plays in the old player when you go to the person who put it on your dash but what the fuck???

[spatterdots]

Hate the new tumblr player, can’t scroll on that bitch and have to wait for the entire fucking loop to restart like tiktok. It was bad already we didn’t actively need it to get worse.

[robotdragonfanatic]

Have I gone crazy or has the dashboard video player lost its play/pause and volume buttons???

[gracefulbandit]

Something interesting happens when two videos are back to back on your dash

[netscapenavigator-official]

By the way, @staff is changing the video player and photo viewer on the mobile app to the one from Tumblr TV. As a result, they have made the abhorrent decision to remove an important accessibility feature in order to TikTok-ifying Tumblr. You can no longer zoom in on photos. Or so I thought. Because the visually impaired are now second-class users to the Tumblr Staff, they just decided to make it harder to zoom in on photos.

So, for all of you who, like me, find the pinch-to-zoom feature on Tumblr invaluable to read and view photos, you now have to:

Tap the Photo > Tap the “more” button in the description > tap the photo again

This will open the old photo viewer (for now, anyway) which was formerly one tap away. It will grant you all the former features of the old photo viewer, including the ability to zoom in.

EDIT: if you’re seeing this on your For You Dash or some other non-reblogged method you will see this edit. Before reblogging and commenting on this, there is addition information in the replies. I have replies disabled, so I am the only person who can add them. I’ve added addition info, as well as an update. Please read them. TLDR: many others, and myself, are now seeing it’s fixed. Many others are not. It may be a roll-out fix from the back-end. Be patient and wait to see if it’ll make its way to you.

[trapny]

Tumblr fucked up the video player again we can't have fucking anything nice in this shitty-ass household

[consultingmadhatter]

How do you pause videos in the new tumblr video player? Genuinely asking. Its infuriating me

[fenkko]

the little siblings of scara and childe 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦

[ollieoxyde]

I don’t think I’ve ever put more love and effort into a singe piece of fanart ever in my life, and this is literally the first ISaT related thing I’ve made. I just needed a Siffrin to stare at me from my desk since I was too late to get the plush.

[bobacupcake]

#oceanquest2023

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