Video preview issues

#13
by toshas - opened
Social Post Explorers org

The ability to attach the teaser video is very cool! However, the current behavior differs a lot from X:

  1. The video is just one small tile at the bottom. Probably, there is no way now to assign an uploaded asset as the main post preview asset.
  2. To play the video, the user needs to hover over the little tile, reveal the three dots, click on them, then, in the menu, click "Play." The video starts playing in this tiny tile, at which point the user understands it is too small. Then maybe goes again to the menu and tries the "Full screen" option. To reduce the friction, I would suggest allowing full post-wide videos with a youtube-like play button.
  3. When the posts feed is infinite, users won't even click play on the videos. In this reality, a video autoplay feature would be highly welcome!

PS: feedback based on this post of mine as of the time of writing: https://huggingface.co/posts/toshas/656973498012745

Social Post Explorers org

Thanks for the feedback @toshas !
I'm not sure if we're going to switch to full-width videos with autoplay (we want to do something a bit more text-centric), but we'll definitely make the video a bit bigger by default. Should that help with your problem?

Social Post Explorers org

Hi @victor thanks for updating on it! I'm just leaving the differences from X behavior because I literally ported an X post as a first try. It really depends on the vision for Posts and it absolutely doesn't need to have feature parity with X! Pretty sure the users will find other ways to maximize engagement and stand out in the Feed.

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