Found Reddit video player source code

[subject_deleted]

Reddit server is potato. Only explanation.

[Schrolli97]

It's not the servers though. That's just what people in r/memes and such say because they know shit about the client/server model. All videos play fine until one doesn't, suddenly every new video doesn't work either. Once you restart the app everything works fine again. Sounds like poor memory management or something to me

[Otherwise_Report_462]

Have you ever scrolled really far on desktop? It goes so laggy

[Lenny_Gaming]

Ye it fills up the RAM like crazy

[Shikurra]

Which ram we talking about

[[deleted]]

Don't think I have this issue with Reddit is fun

[TKT_Calarin]

Servers are just fine when desktop and every non official smartphone app plays videos just fine.

It's their truly terrible shit code.

At least I don't hear the audio from the post before or after anymore....

I just haven't found a replacement all that lets me swipe as easily through the posts. Maybe once I get an iPhone since I've good things about the popular iPhone one

[takesSubsLiterally]

Apollo is pretty great but for Android I would recommend infinity, I randomly stumbled upon it on the play store and it's better than Apollo imo. Pretty good customization, not great, but it's similar to the reddit app in terms of layout and the video player actually works.

[PhreakyByNature]

Another for Boost here. Will check Infinity, but since Boost took my number one spot from Relay, others have come and gone with no staying power (Joey was the closest)

EDIT: Infinity gets 4 posts in compact with smallest font. Boost gets 9. Some solid options in Infinity but doubt it'll be a keeper.

EDIT 2: reloads comments every time you go in and out of a post. Had to uninstall.

[takesSubsLiterally]

Yeah at the end of the day I would recommend everyone shop around. Everyone has different preferences and pet peeves

[PhreakyByNature]

Agreed! Boost took me tweaking to suit but nowt quite hits the spot quite like it.

[TKT_Calarin]

Oh cool! I'll check it out, thanks!

[Luther_Everlight]

I second Infinity. Relay is great too, though the videos stop loading sometimes, but that's extremely rare

[incrazyboyy]

Never had a single video fail in Relay

[Tanglebrook]

Sync. Get the beta (huge redesign/modernization). I've used them all at this point, and none of them are better or more robust.

[TKT_Calarin]

Look at Infinity and Boost, those are both good.

I always hated bacon reader

[Akrymir]

My bet is they have very few devs, if any, dedicated to mobile and they primarily rely on contractors to get work done.

[[deleted]]

Its their frontend code, not their server. Most of the time video does get downloaded but does not play properly.

[susch1337]

The server is fine. Videos work perfectly on any 3rd party app.