Personally how the app looks isn't much of a priority unless it's so bad that it hurts usability and maybe 7/10 times I tried to play a video in Libretube it would either hang for at least a minute or fail to play at all.

That's just not an acceptable tradeoff for looking slightly better than NextPipe that's near-flawless on my phone and SmartTube that's near-flawless on my tv, neither of which is bad-looking IMO 🤷

[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that's completely acceptable. i like when apps integrate with my Monet color theming and I've never had issues loading video after i turned off the Piped proxy, basically just turning it into NewPipe with a different look. In my experience, don't turn that on unless you have a specific reason to. It leads to video loading issues just like you found.

Some things I like about LibreTube:

The PiP functionally works better than in Newpipe
I can see the likes and dislikes of comments and expand the thread to see more comments
Swipe gestures to enter and exit fullscreen just like on the normal YT app
I can view a content creators content by Livestream, Short, normal video etc. for some reason shorts just don't show up in Newpipe
SponsorBlock integrated. I am aware there is Newpipe x SponsorBlock

If NewPipe has a way to add the above functionality, I'll gladly try it again!