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		jmnicolas on Sept 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Serverless: slower and more expensive 90% of Reddit videos are unwatchable for me : they start OK then the quality is downgraded to something unwatchable and there's nothing I can do about it. I even tried to download them with youtube-dl but it doesn't work.

purple_ducks on Sept 24, 2019 | [–]

100% agreed. The initial buffering time on them is ridiculous. I've started uploading to streamable and just posting that link rather than upload video straight to reddit.

6510 on Sept 25, 2019 | [–]

Makes me wonder in how many other [recursive] ways progress is held back by a lack of it.

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