Great service, crummy app
I think the service itself is good competition for YouTube for those who enjoy video essays and other thoughtful, scripted content. I think the profit sharing program and the fact that this service has creators by invitation only is a positive thing for the world, and I’m happy to support it.
The app is not great. It’s gotten a bit better over the years, but it’s unreliable, and it just doesn’t feel like it’s designed to be used the way I want to use it, in a few ways.
For me, the biggest issue is that it decenters individuals content creators. YouTube’s app has a dedicated tab for channels I follow. This tab has a bar at the top that shows a list of all them, and most of the rest of the screen is a feed for viewing their videos in the order of recency of release. If I tap on a channel individually, it’ll show me just *their* videos in said feed. It’s a quick and easy place to check, to see if there’s anything new from anyone whose work I follow. On Nebula, there is simply nothing like this. It’s designed seemingly to encourage users to watch content the Nebula staff thinks we should watch, and for people who fly often (seriously, putting a dedicated tab for DOWNLOADS on the main screen?!)
This app desperately needs to borrow a bit more from the YouTube one’s design.
The app is not great. It’s gotten a bit better over the years, but it’s unreliable, and it just doesn’t feel like it’s designed to be used the way I want to use it, in a few ways.
For me, the biggest issue is that it decenters individuals content creators. YouTube’s app has a dedicated tab for channels I follow. This tab has a bar at the top that shows a list of all them, and most of the rest of the screen is a feed for viewing their videos in the order of recency of release. If I tap on a channel individually, it’ll show me just *their* videos in said feed. It’s a quick and easy place to check, to see if there’s anything new from anyone whose work I follow. On Nebula, there is simply nothing like this. It’s designed seemingly to encourage users to watch content the Nebula staff thinks we should watch, and for people who fly often (seriously, putting a dedicated tab for DOWNLOADS on the main screen?!)
This app desperately needs to borrow a bit more from the YouTube one’s design.
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Great idea, great execution!
Great app for a great streaming service! This app does everything I wish YouTube would, and just works like you expect. Give your money directly to the creator owned / creator run service!
Love it
Love it
Crazy Lag
I bought a year subscription to this app to support a channel I like and it’s crazy laggy. I’ve been watching a video for 20 minutes and I’ve spent 10 minutes buffering. It stops every 30 sec- 1 minute completely to buffer, and it jutters a lot in between. And because the streaming is so laggy, the video quality is AWFUL. It’s not my wifi- Netflix, Hulu, Plex, Youtube, and Apple have streamed without issue. I’ve never had such a bad streaming experience right off the bat. I’m thinking of asking for a refund it’s so bad.
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It’s nice. It has a lot of great educated stuff.
I’ve seen many of my favorite Youtubers often talk about Nebula, today I decided to check it out and I really liked it. Also found some other stuff in there as well, like I said this is mostly just educational but it’s really great and I highly recommend it if you’re into that stuff.
