<![CDATA[Usability issues watching Peertube videos]]>Hello,

I was wondering if other people have these usability issues watching Peertube videos:

  • Videos cannot be displayed in full screen, there's always a wide black border.
  • The video settings (gear icon second to right) are impossibly hard to get as the menu flashes in a second most of the time. After multiple tries (10 to 20 if not more!!!) it will sometimes stay open for a few seconds; I'm then most of the time unable to access the Quality or Speed submenus.
  • These issues happen on both Morph and Demo Browser.

I'm using an OPO on the rc channel.

Thanks!

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3449/usability-issues-watching-peertube-videosRSS for NodeFri, 08 May 2026 15:04:41 GMTThu, 28 Nov 2019 08:10:44 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Usability issues watching Peertube videos on Thu, 05 Dec 2019 05:33:52 GMT]]>Thanks for your reply, at least that makes two of us trying to use Peertube. Out of a whole community. It's quite unfathomable to me. 😕

Anyway, not to sound ungrateful, I've been contributing to open source projects for the last 10+ years (not as dev but mostly documentation with close coordination with devs) so I think I know something about the other side of the fence. I like the UBports project, I want it to succeed, and I'm commited to using UT as my main device OS. Still, I am really confused by what I consider obvious blind spots, such as this one and a few others (the whole Telegram thing).

BTW I found a workaround about the full screen issue: in the address bar, change the /watch/ in the url for /embed/.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/25757https://forums.ubports.com/post/25757Thu, 05 Dec 2019 05:33:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Usability issues watching Peertube videos on Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:48:05 GMT]]>@normandc

🙂 I'm trying to encourage the foundation to set up a peertube server for their videos. I'm also hoping for the day when the Q&A can be broadcast on peertube, rather than youtube but, from what I understand, peertube isn't quite ready for that yet.

But to answer your question, the Q&A is the only thing I watch on youtube.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/25564https://forums.ubports.com/post/25564Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:48:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Usability issues watching Peertube videos on Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:51:57 GMT]]>Am I really the only person on this forum trying to watch videos on Peertube? I find that disappointing.

I would think that this was a community that took open source, privacy and trying to free themselves from Google and its services to heart... Peertube is right down that alley.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/25557https://forums.ubports.com/post/25557Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:51:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Usability issues watching Peertube videos on Thu, 28 Nov 2019 08:17:41 GMT]]>Well I just checked with Firefox on Android. I have the same menu and submenu issues, so this seems to be a problem with Peertube itself. But fullscreen works.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/25425https://forums.ubports.com/post/25425Thu, 28 Nov 2019 08:17:41 GMT