There was an update earlier that appears to have a tremendous effect.
Most of us tried shorts on Leo with mixed results. When it worked, it was fine. The problem was the handshake between Leo and 3Speak.
Evidently that was solved.
@khaleelkazi/re-leothreads-2ixqtu34u
This is a nice milestone. Many of us were testing things out, sending a decent number of videos in a small window. From what I could see, nothing was lost.
There can be delays due to 3Speak encoding issues but the videos do eventually post.
@taskmaster4450le/re-leothreads-2kvf6bwve
Dare I say, shorts are live?
We are all aware of how much attention shorts received.
TikTok exploded due to the sensation. Over time, YouTube got into the game along with Meta (with Reels). All of this is giving people choices of where to put their short videos.
Now we have it available on Leo.
What is nice is this coincides with threads. Posts that are submitted through InLeo threads are considered comments by the ecosystem. This pushes them down a level, away from blog posts.
The move into posting is a big one, yet is hardly sufficient.
In the past, we discussed the other components. Fortunately, based upon what was said on the AMA, we will see this coming into being.
Like most things associated with Hive and, in turn, Leo, content easily gets lost. Here is where a solution can be provided to alter this.
When you go to a site such as YouTube, they have a dedicated section for shorts. The same is true when you head to one's channel. There is a section where you can view the shorts.
Leo needs this.
If we are dependent on simply seeing them as they flow by on the latest page, it will not be very effective.
Fortunately, there is a plan to have a page similar to YouTube. It will be the same with the ability to scroll down and see other videos.
This is a step in the right direction.
It is a feature that people who are on YouTube are accustomed to using. Hence, the learning curve will be minimal.
Here is something that could get very interesting.
Ideally, Leo needs a recommend engine to be able to suggest content for the users. There is some preliminary machine learning engines going as we can see by the recommend of threads under blog posts and the For You feed. They are not well structured and could use work.
LeoAI could be a major aid here. The question is whether that is far enough along to be utilized. If not, we might see a bit of a delay in that being incorporated. I have no idea where the training and testing stands.
Naturally, this is necessary to build into a dedicated page.
These features coupled with shorts will provide some usability similar to the larger platforms.
When posting a short within a threadcast, we see it appearing as a top line thread, i.e. on the latest page. It is also showing up in the main section of the profile.
@taskmaster4450le/re-leothreads-2uvmznbmk
This means that sharing shorts in threads or as replies will have to be copied/pasted in there.
