Looks great, very simple. But the back button doesn't work: instead of going back to the site you came from, it goes to another vid.

It's definitely intentional. History management is more than switching from one hard reload to another, it's now used to go back to content that you had just viewed. A little more intuitive with all the javascript loading, many javascript loading pages use this to keep their site working with browser navigation.

Back isn't showing me stuff I previously viewed. It's showing me new stuff I've never seen before.

You're right, probably the nature of how they serve videos from each category. I guess history will work differently for different sites, looks here they want you to go back to a previous category, rather than the actual video.

edit: see joepestro's reply to the other post.

I think that's intentional? For me it went back to the tab I had just clicked on, and eventually back to HN. This could be by design.

"Back button being broken" is one of those usability nightmares. It's important to get it right, but on an AJAX page, what's right? Always go back to the site you came from, or go back to the previous action on your page?

I think in this case they got it wrong, but there are plenty of sites where this is correct.

In this case, changing the anchor also allows you to link to videos directly - like http://reddit.tv/#20090429-15/sports/1

Then, once on the page, you can change categories/videos without a full page reload. The anchor content controls which video you see. So I think they got it right here.

I understand the concept, but I think that they've violated the user's expectation. On most sites, tabs do not support the back button, so why should they be different? The back button is what most users will click on when there is no other obvious way to undo their previous action, but in this case there is. As such, I think the expectation of the back button is to go to the previous site, not the previous video.

Hopefully, however, they did user studies and found that I'm wrong. I, obviously, have not done any user studies, so it's easy to believe that would be the case.

This is happening for me sometimes, but it is still sometimes broken. If I try to hit "back" to go from the 2nd video I view to the first video (on plain old reddit.tv), it doesn't work. Otherwise it does. (I'm on OS X FF3)

Back-button support without page reloads is one of the most notoriously difficult features to get working cross-browser....

the content they show seems to be pretty dynamic, so changing tabs is the actual action you're taking at first, going back will take you to your previous tag, and it will load your video then. Or with the anchor getting you to the videos directly, then the history works differently, since you're actually linking to a video directly.

these features are very subtle and useful, probably and definitely not the main focus of the site ;)

when you change videos, your browser url changes to reflect that. the back button is then navigating to your previous anchor. this is the same technique used to maintain ajax states in apps like gmail.

Nobody's going to believe me but this is almost exactly what I dreamed of last night. I started the http://www.reddit.com/r/video/ subreddit long ago and just last night I had a dream that someone used the content from that and a few other subreddits to make reddit.TV. My dream algorithm used only the highly rated videos and kept the riff-raff out. Also it included the up/down arrows if you're already logged into reddit.

This is definitely a nice way to watch videos. Good job kn0thing and team :)

I like it a lot. Tons of great content and a nice layout. I like that you feature TED.

It has a lot of overlap with stumble video (http://video.stumbleupon.com/).

It's great...except for those of us working in places where Youtube is blocked. =(

Email me the contact info of your employer and we'll send over some hired goons.

Surely that is why you have a VPN through your VPS set up.

It is quite addicting. I think it would be nice to be able to vote direct from this page... if it can be made in a discreet way.

This looks awesome, Alexis! What a great idea.

I gues I got here late, site is down.

So who wants to predict how long it'll take Digg to jump on the bandwagon?

While the user interface is very different, the functionality is fairly similar to what digg Videos has been for a long time.

http://digg.com/videos/

Thats just a subcategory. Reddit has a video subreddit too: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/

What happens if google shuts down or demands pay for youtube?

It's a question people, I'm not endorsing the idea that google should or will do that.

YouTube embeds ads in videos.

Right, but last I heard it's still bleeding cash.

Where did you hear that? Second hand from a report written by a financial analyst at Credit Suisse who has no concept of how the internet actually works and who has no actual facts to plug into his equation?

I'm using OpenDNS, and reddit.tv doesn't resolve (yet?).

Is this a mashup of Reddit or from Reddit itself?

Nevermind, just read the Reddit blog post -looks great!

Another neat way to checkout reddit: add your sub-reddits as blocks and view them on a single page >

http://www.redditall.com/

You win at the internet http://reddit.tv/#20090429-15/wtf/5

While this comment is pretty low quality for HN, it lead me to discover a bug: links are not persistent. Thats not good for virability of the site.

hmm they even look like they would be. Also my comment was somewhat about reddit, but I'll take the karma hit out of principle