Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
dansup's posts Post Back to profile
dansup

loops.video, the short video video platform I'm building is shaping up and I've made some UI/UX decisions:

- Explore without an account

- Graceful federation UI/UX (so not to confuse new users)

- Login with Pixelfed or Mastodon

- Simple navigation, dragging left will open the camera and right will open the profile of the current video

- Comments will ship without threading support initially

- Hashtags and mentions eventually

Follow @loops for early access and updates!

18 March at 8:28 | Open on mastodon.social
15 comments
Paul Sutton

@dansup @loops

Can we upload pre-recorded video files ?

18 March at 8:30 | Open on qoto.org
dansup

@zleap @loops I’m debating that atm, leaning towards no but then again it would be better to have more videos

18 March at 8:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Tizian

@dansup @zleap @loops I never experienced vines, was it solely focused on self recorded shorts? Was edited content forbidden/unusual? :Blobhaj:

18 March at 9:21 | Open on mastodon.online
D4v

@tizian @dansup @zleap @loops yes because you couldn't edit, you couldn't upload from camera roll, so you had to record in real time, but If I remember correctly, you could pause and then continue recording to the same video again or use airplane mode, it was wild πŸ˜… I'm sure there are some tips&tricks on youtube from back then if you wanna know more

18 March at 9:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Marquardt

@dansup @loops Native app for iOS? It not feeling quite right in many super small details is still my main hangup with the Pixelfed app

18 March at 9:00 | Open on chaos.social
Tizian

@dansup @loops Exploration without login/registration is quite an important aspect. A good decision, in my eyes! :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

18 March at 9:20 | Open on mastodon.online
γ‚·γƒŠγƒ’γƒ­γƒΌγƒ« :kirby:

@dansup @loops
dark mode? πŸ₯ΊπŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

18 March at 9:22 | Open on mastodon.social
dansup

@cuteprince @loops Thats on the backlog, will likely ship with only light mode so we can get this out ASAP

My dark mode homies shouldn't worry tho, I got you fam 🀟

18 March at 9:51 | Open on mastodon.social
Zekovski

@dansup @loops
Nice !

What does login with mastodon mean ?
Is it "create an account from mastodon data" like Pixelfed did ?

18 March at 9:47 | Open on pouet.chapril.org
dansup

@Zekovski @loops Yes, it should work with other platforms that support oAuth as well!

18 March at 9:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Zekovski

@dansup @loops
Understood.
No offense but I have a problem with this wording since it doesn't really do what it says.
Here is an issue I wrote about it for Pixelfed which explains a bit more :
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/i

Sorry for bothering you with this.
I wish you good work. πŸ‘‹

18 March at 13:54 | Open on pouet.chapril.org
PhilipKing

@Zekovski @dansup @loops I agree, it causes confusion because other sites allow remote login where you can login with a Mastodon account.

18 March at 14:02 | Open on mastodon.social
Mister Punk

@dansup @loops good job, I'm a SaaS founder too :)

18 March at 9:57 | Open on mastodon.social
Emerald

@dansup @loops Yes!! "exploring without an account" is sooo important for fast growth!

One of the things that frightened me when I first considered "joining the fediverse" was that it wasn't very convenient to explore it at-large from one place, without creating an account. I was scared of getting into it without fully knowing what I was *actually* getting into.

I therefore think that it would be extremely valuable for loops to have a neat, well-fledged UX for non-logged in users too!

18 March at 12:20 | Open on mastodon.world
Scott M. Stolz
Sounds great! Adding OpenWebAuth support would be nice too.
18 March at 12:35 | Open on authorship.studio
Go Up