• youmaynotknow
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    37 months ago

    Smart Tube in TV and Tubular on phone (plus Grayjay, but but I’m not fond of their UX).

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      Grayjay

      Yeah, it kind of sucks, and the performance on my phone is worse than NewPipe, but I haven’t found anything else that combines feeds from other sources (Odysee, Nebula, etc), so I still use it.

      There are also some missing features, like browsing channel playlists.

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        17 months ago

        It has a ways to make it go, for sure. That UX reminds me of WinAmp way back in the day 🤣

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          WinAmp was awesome! I loved having it as a floating bar to control my music.

          But honestly, the UX is mostly okay for me, except the settings, that really needs some cleanup. Also, rotation is completely broken.

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            7 months ago

            WinAmp was awesome! I loved having it as a floating bar to control my music.

            Tell me we’re old without saying that we’re old 🤣

            And in Grayjay, I the one thing that’s flawless for me is the screen rotation.

            100% agree that the menus and settings need a serious overhaul.

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              7 months ago

              the one thing that’s flawless for me is the screen rotation

              Really? So you can watch videos horizontally without the video randomly flipping to vertical and back?

              I’ve tried messing with the settings, but it doesn’t seem to do anything. See this bug report, finding that setting was a nightmare, and it didn’t even do anything. If it was open source, I’d probably go make a fix, but it’s not, so I guess I’ll just complain about it.

              And yeah, that menu sucks as well. I hope Futo hires a UX person because it could be so much nicer to use. I’m impressed at how well it works though, so that dev is doing a top notch job.

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                17 months ago

                Yup, rotation just works out of the box. Tested on Graphene, Calyx and Stock Pixel Android on a Pixel 7 Pro. Also, what I love about it is that it just works (other than the eventual YouTube captcha) for every instance enabled.

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                  27 months ago

                  Weird. Mine works a lot of the time, but then randomly flips vertical and then horizontal. I can be holding my phone super stable, and it still does it.

                  My phone is kinda old and crappy though (Android 11), so maybe it’s less of an issue on newer phones, but I don’t have this issue on any other app.

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                    17 months ago

                    That thing is still in beta, so it stands to reason that it’s not able to do everything right all the time in all devices. My suggestion is that, unless you’re watching on peertube, Odysee, rumble or something like that, stick to Tubular.