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Rating: 5/5

Normally this app works like a charm! But today, is not one of those days. I have been trying for hours to upload one video. At first I thought it was too long, even though it was well under five minutes. So I decided to edit the video into two parts. The first part loaded without a problem, but the second part won’t load no matter what I do! Please help! For this reason the app only gets two stars from me :(

ChuckingChicken49

Rating: 2/5

This is so close to being something to take serious. But they limit you in so many stupid ways. Firstly you can actually upload a 60 minute video, but only if it was a live video saved in your live video archives. If you want to edit that live video, and re-upload it, you just can’t. Because your not allowed to upload something over 15 minutes. They let people with lots of followers do this only. I understand this as a means of quality control, but if your video is really low quality, it’s not gonna show up in their feed anyway. Also, live videos saved to your archive take forever to upload. Most of the time they just don’t even upload because the loading bar gets stuck at the very end for no reason at all. If their looking for quality control, they should fix their own stuff first. Also, I was doing a live video where I was singing with a music backtrack and then it just stopped without warning because of “copywrite”. This was something just between my family and friends. I shouldn’t have a LIVE video completely and instantly STOPPED for copywrite if I’m not making money off of it. This has a lot of potential, but as of right now it’s not worth using unless your doing short clips which you could just upload to instagram normally anyway.

ryry.ne

Rating: 3/5

It lacks some basic video functionality like tapping the middle of the screen to pause or the left/right side to rewind/fast forward. The playback menu is really hard to see against a white background (see Philip DeFranco's videos). Also, it would be nice to be able to close a video I'm not interested or at least somehow auto pause it while I'm browsing. And this might sound weird, but here's my biggest complaint - as an adult with a job and responsibilities, I need to immediately be able to see what time it is. It would be helpful if the time (and battery life, etc.) was shown whenever the title and playback menu is visible. Sometimes functionality is more important than aesthetic design.