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Comment by Copenjin | Hacker News Reader

Never heard of this alternative video platform before, interesting.

LBRY works nicely, but hasn't got a lot of traction. Haven't seen it crop up much since last year's Linux Sucks 2020 video.

Incidentally, from Firefox I can right click the video > Save Video As... and I can download the video to watch later. Was surprised to see there doesn't seem to be a download button anywhere on the page, though.

It's a pretty interesting platform, (may have been called LBRY before?:

https://lbry.com/faq/what-is-lbry

> First and foremost, LBRY is a new protocol that allows anyone to build apps that interact with digital content on the LBRY network. Apps built using the protocol allow creators to upload their work to the LBRY network of hosts (like BitTorrent), to set a price per stream or download (like iTunes) or give it away for free (like YouTube without ads). The work you publish could be videos, audio files, documents, or any other type of file.

Yeah it gives off some nice first impressions! These popped out immediately:

- Keyboard controls to skip forward/reverse with arrow keys, pause with space

- Video speed adjustment

- Threaded comments

Edit: Critique for the infinite scrolling for comments. Makes it insanely annoying to reach the footer for some information about the site.

Agree on the infinite scrolling being generally bad, especially on comments. Same goes for the obnoxious "more" tiny links that obscure half of the content for no reason

Yeah, given that browsers have already loaded the content anyways. Suppose it's for tracking who actually reads past the intro paragraph.

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