Please, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, allow us to disable this chapter skipping feature (the one where tapping left or right to bring up the scrubber, then double tapping the other direction because 100% of people want to skip that direction some unit time - 10 seconds by default). This ends up feeling random and is just vexing.

It is the worst feature added to any software, maybe ever in the history of computing. How many hours are wasted trying to figure out where one was in this video? How much power and network bandwidth is consumed fighting this feature that I’ve not seen a single comment online of anybody benefitting from ever.

This feature is adding to human suffering by wasting energy and damaging people psychologically. Go please, look online, and consider castigating the creator of this feature in the public square. And then take a good hard look at yourself for not stopping this evil from ever being added in the first place.

Yours aye, Sane People

  • Aatube@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Chapter skipping is supposed to only happen if you use two fingers to double tap. But yes, it is confusing and frustrating to figure out where you were, especially if you weren’t planning to.

    • theherk@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I’m not sure I follow. There are three methods I am aware of on the iOS app.

      1. The chapter selection interface that can be opened by clicking on the current chapter name.
      2. Two finger tapping in the direction of the chapter you want to skip too.
      3. (Referred to here): Single tap on left or right side to bring up controls and immediately one finger double tap in the opposite direction.

      So if a video is playing and the controls are hidden, one finger tapping right then left left would skip to the previous chapter.