I just set up my Loops account in order to beta test the iOS app.
Uploaded my first video here: https://loops.video/v/5s_wUUCHsZ
So far so good.
If you come across anything cool and want to share, there’s https://midwest.social/c/loops
Have been very impressed w loops so far!
So far, so good. The software works. You’re able to watch videos, comment, follow people etc. There are minor glitches here and there, but there are also lots of updates all the time.
It reminds me of something I’ve read about Mastodon. That place was designed to be less addictive than Twitter, so feeling a little bored after a while is a feature, not a bug. Loops gives me that same vibe, although it’s probably caused by the the small number of videos and people making them.
Especially considering it’s a one man team who also made pixelfed and some other lesser known fediverse projects.
It needs more uploads created by the people behind the accounts rather than low effort reuploads of other’s content.
That will come but for now it’s more helpful for the beta testing to have a large diversity of scenarios to work with.
I’m just worried it’ll become normalised to be reuploads instead of original stuff.
Ah I see. Fwiw, !loops@midwest.social has this in the sidebar:
If the loop you’re posting isn’t original content uploaded by the creator, prefix the title with [R] for “reposted”. For example, [R] Cute dog.
So that’s at least something to help differentiate them.
Isn’t he too close to the tv?
In my opinion, yes. That’s just how he likes to play.
I’ve known people who played FPS like that… they beat us all “normal distance” folk. Likely wouldn’t work at pro levels, but definitely worked at semi-casual.
I suspect it has to do with larger field of view and quick eye accomodation (aka: young).
Is there an Android client yet?
If not, how good/bad is the interface on web?Yes, there’s a decent (albeit bare bones) Android client. The web interface is about to have a major update, but at the moment is pants.
So far nothing. Last time I checked (back when loops.video was released), their domain had no SPF nor DKIM, so most of the mail providers wouldn’t receive their email.
There was a three day delay between when I created an account and when I received the email.
FYI Tesseract as implemented on e.g. dubvee.org, an alternative front-end UI for Lemmy made by Admiral Patrick, has an embedded player already, which doesn’t need an account to play the videos. See it in action at https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/loops@midwest.social, or read more about Tesseract at https://dubvee.org/post/2453173. I hope to see even greater levels of integration soon, perhaps in PieFed!:-)
Thanks for the shoutout. Unfortunately, I dropped 0.18.x support back in 1.4.0 so it won’t work with Beehaw right now :(
I always like to promote cool stuff, and your stuff is so freaking cool:-).
Good point about it not working natively inside Beehaw but I just wanted to clarify for anyone reading that even so, they can still click the link https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/loops@midwest.social and see the loops videos in action - they can’t comment or vote, either on the Lemmy post or for the Loops video, but for read-only mode it works very well.
I don’t have a Loops account myself so haven’t compared the experiences for that vs. Tesseract but regardless it’s kinda neat to be able to do something like sort that community by Top Week or something and then go through the videos one by one, reading comments if desired also.
Thanks for sharing, Tesseract seems awesome!
Thanks for sharing, Tesseract seems awesome!
It kinda is yeah.:-) Both Tesseract and PieFed have YouTube embedding, but only Tesseract has that for Loops (so far).
Another commenter to this post said a Loops web UI update is coming, so hopefully that version will include the
og:videometadata so any client can easily support them. It also means I might have to adjust my code to account for those changes in case they don’t add that metadata on the new version lol.
Heck yeah, something original.
The only problem with loops so far is its full of reuploads of other people’s content which I consider bad and also boring. Folks should make their own stuff.
