Odysee 17+

New user, and right at the start there are a couple obvious bugs, and a few things that could be improved on:
- Audio frequently becomes unsynced with the video.
- Detaching the video so you can view it while doing something else on your phone doesn’t always work correctly. Sometimes the video goes somewhere off screen and the only way to get it back is to go back to the app and “re-home” the video.
- There isn’t a way to quickly advance the video while in full screen mode. To jump forward 10 seconds, you have to get out of full screen, tap the button, and then go back in to full screen. YT addresses this perfectly by allowing you to double tap on the right or left side of the video. Something similar would be a welcome change.

All in all it’s a great start for a new app. I’m in it for the long haul, and I’ll be eagerly looking forward to improvements as they happen.

A free an open, decentralized hosting system that anyone can link to using crypto yo further enhance creator payment and support , while viewers are rewarded for their time instead of being spoon fed commerce to satisfy the big tech giants greed & pimp out creators for pennies. The creator of odysee makes no bones about his desire for
Others to create their own app to link to lbry. He created odysee to demonstrate its ability and capability, but sadly it’s about too good and I haven’t seen or heard of any news projects. I expect odysee will
Become a household name in a few years.
I still use the browsers (brave and quant) because the app needs some work. When you watch a video and desire to go back out to the Home Screen, you’re stuck in the feed you selected and then have to restart the app. I’m positive this will be corrected, and am eagerly waiting this app to be used and YT app deleted.

I’ve been using Odysee on Desktop and mobile.

The mobile app is entirely unusable. Live streams will never stay on live. It always freezes and falls behind. You can’t full screen it either so Desktop is the only solution. The search engine doesn’t work at all, not even a little bit.

Desktop is a night and day difference compared to the app.

On Desktop the only minor issues is the search engine doesn’t work too well. You have to really fine tune it and even then it’s barely functional.

The comment section goes to the side so far that comments are entirely unreadable after a few replies back and forth between people.

The only reason I use Odysee is it’s the most free speech platform I’ve found so far. If that ever changes they will be replaced with another competitor. They will only stay in good favor of their current users for the same reason as me, free speech. If they begin to shadow ban they’re done for in my eyes.

Also they do throttle users to the top that they favor, the recommended videos on their home page is not organic. There’s people with 10,000+ followers who do not get featured in their home feed while others with only 2 followers are. Fix all of these issues or someone else who comes along will quickly scoop up all of Odysee’s user base as it’s already heavily flawed and barely functional.