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Built by HNer galuggus, who mentioned this deep in another thread. Give him some karma:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24095821

Much appreciated. I'll be in this thread answering any questions. Bug reports and feedback very welcome. This app was made with help from Tanya of techtwox.com

When you swipe to next video, you have to unmute each time. I know that mobile browsers only allow muted videos to auto play but was wondering if you’ve thought about finding a way to make it so that you only have to unmute the first video.

I know that this is possible to do, because for example YouTube is able to do that in mobile browsers. I don’t know how they do it, but for example if you open this link in a mobile browser and unmute it and allow auto play to continue to next video after it then notice that the next video is unmuted as well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0MW0mDZysxc

I guess it might be that they reuse the same player element that was unmuted or something like that.

I think it would be possible to achieve something similar even with multiple player elements by doing something clever.

I removed this feature for compatibility reasons.

I think there are ways to do it but I couldn't get it to work. I believe chrome makes exception to this rule for big trusted websites like YouTube

Is there any algorithms involved, or is it just ranked the same for everyone, and ordered by most ranks?

At the moment it's just the same for everyone.

FYI- To encourage more organic “karma” , votes that are cast from people who accessed direct links aren’t counted

HN always surprises me with little measures like this one.

Reddit has (and always had) this and many more. It's all part of their extensive anti-abuse system. For example if you go to someone's profile and downvote all their comments, that probably won't work. If you link your post on chat and tell them to go upvote you, won't work either. There's many more of these, and most of them look like they work but behind the scene reddit takes it all into consideration and knows people trying to game the system.

I don't follow your meaning. Could you explain more?

It sounds like he's saying that depending on the Referer header for a loaded comments section, HN may or may not generate upvote buttons that are duds.

Looks like there's an auth parameter in the upvote GET request, so sounds entirely plausible.

Upvotes from direct links don't count. It's an anti-spam technique.

You mean on product hunt?

I think it means when coming to this page directly vs getting to it by clicking the link on the HN homepage.

This is pretty cool. Well done galuggus.

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