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Firefox seems to be respecting CORS, where Chrome does not, which is interesting. As a result the site doesn't work on Firefox. (at least for me).

   Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/search.json?q=(site:v.redd.it%20OR%20site:youtube.com%20OR%20site:vimeo.com%20OR%20site:youtu.be%20OR%20site:twitch.tv%20OR%20site:gfycat.com%20OR%20site:streamable.com%20OR%20site:tiktok.com%20OR%20site:livestream.com%20OR%20site:dailymotion.com%20OR%20site:rumble.com%20OR%20site:liveleak.com%20OR%20site:gifs.com%20OR%20site:giphy.com%20OR%20site:redgifs.com%20OR%20site:bandcamp.com)%20NOT%20url:feature=share%20NOT%20url:vm.tiktok.com%20NOT%20url:music.youtube.com&t=hour&sort=comments&sr_detail=on&limit=12&nsfw=no&include_over_18=no. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).

Edit: As noted below, if you are running Firefox in Strict privacy protection, it blocks the XHR requests. Whitelisting this site will allow it to work.

I had the same issue; I think the error message is wrong. The reason it's not working is that tracking protection is blocking XHR requests to www.reddit.com. If you disable tracking protection or whitelist www.reddit.com it should work.

I do have privacy settings on Strict, and clicking the shield indicated reddit.com was one of the ones blocked.

For me it works. Just tested on latest Firefox, Mac.

Thanks for the download button. I hate how reddit decided they own the content now and don't let you download.

Sure thing :)

fyi for anyone who doesn't know, youtube-dl will let you download videos from various sites, including reddit, twitter.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

This is especially infuriating since reddit's video player on any Android mobile browser is utter garbage. It hangs constantly because of its poor performance, loads the video extremely slowly, and doesn't support seeking in any audio-less video because a click maximized the video instead of showing a seekbar.

But not being able to seek isn't actually that important because either clicking there straight up doesn't work or it takes you to a position in the video that often enough is more than 50% of the video length off the position you clicked on.

Meanwhile the native video player in any browser on Android supports not only Google Cast but is also extremely fast, has a dedicated volume control, and supports seeking down to pixel-perfect accuracy. They also don't create seizure-inducing flickering when you try to maximize them.

Whoever gave this video player the green light for production use needs to be forced to use it for everything they want to watch until they made it usable.

All the same issues on iOS and macOS. Only my Windows desktop plays them on the first click.

I actually created something similar to this a while back when Reddit TV was taken down.

Would love if you guys could check it out.

It’s https://viddit.app

It’s really only meant to work on desktop though.

This site works awesome. hats off to you truly.

there is one things that would make this site as useful as youtube and thats having the to and left site side fixed so they don't go away when you scroll down. this is how youtube has their site and i'm sure that's who are trying to mimic and that's what people are used to.

Initially it was like that but I've changed it. I guess I can revert the changes back. Thanks for the kind words :)

This is great to show the ability of aggregating videos from Reddit. I'd say a better use case would be to turn it into a news feed of subreddits you follow - Instagram stories, Tik Tok with autoplay right in the feed. It irritates me to have to click into each one to see if I'm interested, but good work.

There are some limitations on provides that I can aggregate videos for but you can you can add your favourite subreddits to ... favourites and you will see a feed from them on the homepage.

Very nice and quick.

The actual videos load slowly, but I assume that's a limitation of reddits video player.

Yeah so I have NO BACKEND. Everything is shown using the Reddit JSON Api. I just made it search for specific URLs etc. The embeds come from Reddit itself and I have "almost" no control over them.

This is incredible. Do you have a public github repository. I am learning Vue.js and this seems like a great project to learn layout structure?

Not yet but I plan to release it in the near future. I will put a not to remind you here when it's done.

I like it. What do you think about making it autoplay when opening a video?

Unfortunately I saw that sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. On desktop is working better than mobile. I'm just using the code Reddit provides for embed so not sure if that actually possible.

I can definitely spend a lot of time on this website.

Wow, thanks for sharing, great work on the UI!

Thank you!

Very nice, but can you enable video controls?

So I'm using the embed code that Reddit provides. Are we talking about Reddit videos or other provider videos?

this is amazing, replaces reddit for me as the videos are the best part, esp the new reddit which loads way too slow

edit: Looks like it's just Firefox blocking CORS

awesome idea! great implementation.

Pretty cool!

Thanks. Appreciate it.

Youtube should hire you to redesign their site. Simple, fast, and easy to use. Nicely done.

Haha! Thanks.

Very nice! I don't know how I feel about the fact that people will for sure use this to browse porn. I mean, I guess it's one of the envisioned use cases given how the NSFW toggle adds a bunch of convenient shortcuts to the top of the additional subreddit list.

Why does it matter? Lots of people watch porn and yet we treat it like it’s something weird and sensitive.

Exacly. Unfortunatelly I don't have that much control over the feed if Reddit doesn't properly make the subreddit +18

I think you've found a very reasonable way how to deal with it using the NSFW toggle. If some subreddits aren't properly marked that's on them.

Btw, I think I found a bug. On mobile tapping on 'more subreddits' initially doesn't work for me. After I tap on top and then get back to the subreddit menu, it starts working.

All in all very nice, thanks for making this!

OK, thanks for spotting that! I will see what the issue is.

That's why I said I can't figure out what I think about that. I mean, on one hand I don't view watching porn as something immoral or whatever. On the other hand, it does seem somewhat sad that anything that can in principle be used for porn overwhelmingly will be.

But why does that make you sad? Some people will use it to watch porn, some people will use it to watch cat videos, some people will use it to watch minecraft clips.

It's a multipurpose service, using it for any specific purpose doesn't negate the other ones.

Would say /r/spacex be any better if there was no /r/gonewild? I don't see how one would harm the other.

That's a very good question. Thanks for asking, as it made me think about this more in-depth.

The porn thing is apparently just a proxy to a deeper philosophical issue. So, basically, in all likelihood we're just primates with an oversized brain. And this oversized brain of ours lets us do marvelous things. As in, we can be as a sort of a mix between the fantasy races of technologically advanced dwarves and mentally advanced elves, to the point where our technology and our art borders magic. We can gain insights into the most minute details of how nature itself functions, and we can use these insights to reach stars, to communicate to each other over vast distances at the speed of light, to trick our senses into believing a different reality, and even to very likely soon be able to cure ageing itself.

But then. A large portion of us uses our oversized brains to just try and consume more, see more genitals, and you know, just try and live our primate lives the best a primate can imagine. And many of us technologists earn our keep by directly or indirectly working on tricking the behavioural circuits evolution has given us to redirect our resources to even more tricking of our evolutionary circuits. Be it the circuits that make us eat sugar, scroll down 'just one more time', or make us believe that we're actually mating. With screens.

So, the fact that one of the first uses we put pretty much any applicable technology on has something to do with genitals makes me remember the research where a chimp would forego peanuts in order to view pictures of female chimp genitals, the research where a hamster would mate to death, as long as you keep exchanging partners, as well as Jon Lajoie's super-hit 'Show Me Your Genitals'. It makes me remember that despite all the wonderful things we can be, at the end of the day we are just what we are. Nothing less, but also nothing more. And that does make me somewhat sad. Not very, just somewhat.

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