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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Freetube is great but it's also a source of endless frustration. Like if you walk away from your computer the stream times out and it won't resume. Then it says "reload" and they never implemented a reload button so you have to navigate to something else. Except their navigation doesn't work quite right so sometimes if you click too fast it stays on the new page after you try to go back to the one you wanted to reload. Rawr. (GitHub issues 1005, 1425, 1500, 1958, 4062, 4409, 5019, 5152, 6136, 6201)

I use youtube-local which is great, but it's more susceptible to breakage which is why I'm currently back on freetube and very very very frustrated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

In Freetube, reload is ctrl-R on Linux and Windows, and cmd-R on Mac. I have experienced the fact that if you leave a video paused for a long time (hours) then you need to refresh. If you have history active, after refreshing the video will resume from where you left, which by the way is better then actual YouTube where it will often resume from an earlier timestamp. I have not experienced the other issues you mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah I learned that when I looked up the issue number, very disappointed that it's Ctrl+R instead of the canonical reload button for the last 30 years (F5). :(

Since you knew Ctrl+r you wouldn't experience those issues. That's a side effect of "reload" without a reload button.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Control r is standard reload for web browsers and other stuff too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

There's no reload button directly in the UI, but if you press alt and then go to View > Reload or View > Force Reload. It's not ideal, but it does work.

Edit: Didn't finish reading your comment, I've never experienced any of those issues, especially with navigation.