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That's right, get piped Youtube!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Personally how the app looks isn't much of a priority unless it's so bad that it hurts usability and maybe 7/10 times I tried to play a video in Libretube it would either hang for at least a minute or fail to play at all.

That's just not an acceptable tradeoff for looking slightly better than NextPipe that's near-flawless on my phone and SmartTube that's near-flawless on my tv, neither of which is bad-looking IMO 🤷

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

that's completely acceptable. i like when apps integrate with my Monet color theming and I've never had issues loading video after i turned off the Piped proxy, basically just turning it into NewPipe with a different look. In my experience, don't turn that on unless you have a specific reason to. It leads to video loading issues just like you found.

Some things I like about LibreTube:

  • The PiP functionally works better than in Newpipe
  • I can see the likes and dislikes of comments and expand the thread to see more comments
  • Swipe gestures to enter and exit fullscreen just like on the normal YT app
  • I can view a content creators content by Livestream, Short, normal video etc. for some reason shorts just don't show up in Newpipe
  • SponsorBlock integrated. I am aware there is Newpipe x SponsorBlock

If NewPipe has a way to add the above functionality, I'll gladly try it again!