The American online video sharing and social media platform, YouTube has announced that it is testing a feature that enables mobile viewers to create Shorts featuring comments posted on videos they’re watching.
Viewers Can Now Create Their Own Videos Featuring Comments
In a support page, the Google-owned company said, “While creators are already able to reply to comments (posted on their own content) with a Short, we want to explore offering viewers the opportunity to create content from comments as well.”
The above described Short will appear in the Shorts feed and on the viewers’ channel page.
Further adding, “Viewer-created Shorts won’t send notifications to the creator whose video the comment is on, nor the comment author.”
This simply means that the creators can’t prohibit their comments from being featured in a Short, unless comments on their videos are disabled.
Presently this experiment is available to a small percentage of viewers on Android and iOS mobile devices across the globe.
Youtube Testing New Features
The video-sharing platform had earlier informed that it was testing a new feature that allows users to long press anywhere on the player while watching a video to automatically bump the playback speed to 2x.
Besides this, the San Bruno headquartered social media platform was also testing a feature that provides bigger previews to users while seeking.
This feature will help in making users’ lives easier in order to find the exact moment in the video that they want to watch.
In simple words, the platform was testing a lock screen feature, which allows users to disable touch input while watching a video.
This will help in preventing the accidental taps causing pause, skip or disruption of the video.
The video-sharing platform had said that it was testing a three-strikes policy for people using ad blockers, last month.
Besides this, the video sharing company also provided details on how the policy works, while noting that “ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service”.
