Wait until you see the videos.
I mean, really, wait… And keep waiting… Wait more… More… Ok, now you can see it! Oh, no, it lasts more than a second, just wait a bit…
…and even if it loads, it’ll be grainy and ugly and consists of eight or so pixels - maybe nine if your connection is top tier. Before I nuked my account, I redownloaded all videos I had uploaded over the course of the last couple of years, but then decided against reuploading them to youtube because all of them look like sh*t now. I’d be embarrassed to put something like that into my YT account.
… and it is defo reddit’s fault, because when I uploaded the videos back in the day I often struggled to keep the file size under 1GB, whereas the same videos downloaded later now have 87 MB on average … less than a tenth of the original data, still the same lenght and content, but the quality took a huge, very noticable nosedive.
For real let me just open image in new tab ffs don’t keep redirecting me to new reddit
Ok I posted that last comment from my phone, but I’m on my computer now, so here’s a link to save you the trouble.
[Chromium extension (via Chrome store)](https://web.archive.org/web/20231208063744/https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-load-images-direct/fpimmmjbglpnlpbfikgekaaeinminolo/
Thank you! Why is the link a web archive?
Uhh, good question. I didn’t think I did that on purpose…
I was originally going to link to a Reddit comment that contained both those links, and I usually use an archive link when doing Reddit links to avoid giving Reddit more clicks. I guess I must have gotten that link from clicking the link in the archived version of the Reddit post?
If you Google around for it you can find an extension or Tampermonkey script that fixes this.
I Googled around and found Lemmy.
There’s no great work around for the image issues here either. Other then have someone willing to store everyone’s uploads. I guess not too bad if not a lot of users on the instance though.
Reddit’s
image hosting isgarbage.FIFY
