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  • I would imagine they store the highest available quality only by default and do on the fly transcoding until a certain threshold of views per time is reached. At this point they would then store the transcoded versions as well.

    For videos with a lot of views it only makes sense to store the transcoded version as, like you say, storage is cheap. But fact is that the vast majority of uploaded videos get <1k views and for those it probably would make more sense to transcode them otf when needed.






  • I mean what did you expect? A 2 day blackout to actually do something? Reddit got hell of a media coverage from this and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ll actually gain users through this in short and mid term.

    Now, the other thing is mods actually leaving the platform. I’ve already had the feeling that the post quality on reddit has declined over the last years with reposts and karma farming bots. It remains to be seen how many mods actually ditch the platform, and how large the influx of new mods will be.

    For me personally, I’ll try to stay off of reddit. I’ve wasted too much time there already anyways and it sucks that RiF will be no longer. I’d love for my communities to transition over a different platform but my hopes are limited at the moment.