Video is huge on Reddit, but the video player needed some love. In 2022, teams at Reddit used a novel way to fix it, bringing in the community. A new community, r/fixthevideoplayer was born and after some intense bug-fixing, the video player saw massive improvements.
In this episode, we hear how the initiative came together and what engineering used to fix the biggest issues in the video player.
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