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Facebook continues to have an extremely high amount of difficulty doing basic counting of media starts. podnews.net/article/facebook-partial-downloadsOn twitter.com
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Also, this is a *shockingly* inefficient system from a technical level if it works anything like the author suspects. The idea that a platform on a scale of Facebook might be downloading even a chunk of a podcast every time the user scrolls past instead of caching data is insane.Permalink On twitter.com
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It makes me suspect that Facebook might have or be planning some sort of auto-play scheme like what YouTube is doing now, where a stopped scroll will start the most in-view media, and skip forward if that media is clicked.Permalink On twitter.com
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Autoplay media in a mixed source social feed context is a *freaking crazy thing to do* btw. It's a terrible user experience on YouTube b/c it starts muted, which means that you click into a video and you have no idea what the beginning that you missed was and have to scroll back.Permalink On twitter.com
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In general, it's just a crazy dumb idea that social media platforms keep pushing because they are competing for creators' effort and want to show that they are the best deliverer of plays. Unlike landing on an article page with a video, the social feed is a browsing experience...Permalink On twitter.com
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Which means you will often pass media that you *will not ever* be interested in playing or, equally often, want to play later. Auto playing media in a social feed is entirely antithetic to the user experience and *only* benefits the platform...Permalink On twitter.com
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It's another sign that these big platforms--especially in regard to media experiences--don't consider their users to be their customers at all. Their customers are creators and advertisers and they don't feel the need to respect their users b/c they think they have them captured.Permalink On twitter.com
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Also... Libsyn... wtf... how is this still a tool?!? Take out the trash and use literally anything else in the huge universe of podcasting tools. As if the UI isn't bad enough now they're apparently marketing themselves on not using the generally accepted metrics?Permalink On twitter.com
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I once had to build a friend a passthrough site to fix a technical error introduced by Libsyn into the feed that broke iTunes parsing the feed after Libsyn refused to provide any support. I do not understand why anyone still uses them.Permalink On twitter.com
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