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Video embeds
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2014–2022), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Video embeds, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Video won't load until the user clicks through a popup2022-03-02
- Videos only load the first few seconds and won't play2021-01-27
- Sites restart videos via script, so user autoplay and pause settings get overridden2016-11-13
- Background video makes page text hard to read and distracts from content2014-11-04
- Video takes up too much vertical space, distracting users while they get their bearings2014-10-14