New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion

Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by groestl on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:52AM (#18775634)

I think the battle is lost, but I'm a little bit sad seeing the sky over a city being filmed in vertical video.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by opless on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:15AM (#18775727)

Though it makes sense if you're watching it on your phone maximised in its natural orientation.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by pmontra on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:59AM (#18776274)

Probably who records videos just pick up the phone, portrait mode, and start filming. No thoughts about the circumstances of watching it later on.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by abainbridge on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:50AM (#18776073)

We should just make phones square.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by foobar1962 on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:53AM (#18776253)

Or make the sensor square and have it record full-sensor so the image can be rotes in post processing.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by kw71 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @02:07AM (#18782409)

No, we should have the phones deliver electric shocks whenever taking video in portrait mode.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by mrfusion on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:52AM (#18776678)

Here’s a PSA for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by gammateam on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:23AM (#18777650)

Looks more like a user experience problem than the content creator's problem

Youtube doesn't post process vertical videos correctly, while Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, and many other sites keep the processed video in its flexible aspect ratio - primarily for their mobile users who would have no UX problem.

Interesting how that hasn't made it into the discussion, I feel like people will just stop talking about it when the UX is fixed

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by groestl on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:51AM (#18777848)

Funny you should say that mobile users on Reddit have no UX problem with vertical videos. Here is how the above link looks like on my mobile device. Original link (to classic reddit UI), mobile version horizontal, mobile version portrait, respectively: https://imgur.com/a/JU4v3rn

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by Stratoscope on Friday December 28, 2018 @12:42PM (#18778180)

The video has a full screen button which can be seen in your screenshots. Tap it and the video fills the screen in portrait mode on both the old reddit and the new mobile reddit, at least on my Android device.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by nsalkmaar on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:22PM (#18779160)

I find it terrible "progress" that one has to press a button to get a functional view.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by gammateam on Friday December 28, 2018 @12:14PM (#18777995)

okay. then reddit should fix their UX problem shrug emoji doesn't change the point

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by yqh on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:04AM (#18775916)

I'm sure most people who've clicked the play button on that video have done so on their mobiles in portrait orientation so... sorry gramps

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by nkozyra on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:51AM (#18776997)

Sometime in the future we'll look back and wonder how our televisions and movie screens became vertical. This post will go into the evidence basket.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by ryanmercer on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:36AM (#18777295)

I lol'd, I'm reading this on a vertical monitor right now. My secondary monitor is vertical due to cramped desk space, so I can have my horizontal monitor still centered when I look straight ahead.

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Re:New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion by nkozyra on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:20PM (#18780615)

Developers are a bit different in this regard. I used to use a vertical monitor in 2007 because, well, it's pretty great for big chunks of code and web development in general.

As good as it was, I never wanted to watch videos in that way.

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