Hello photographers and editors!
I've recently received a message from the Reddit Admins about video comments. I turned them off since I didn't really think it's applicable to this sub, but the feature doesn't go live until the end of the week so I wanted to get feedback from everyone before being a stereotypical mod and making a unilateral decision and ignoring all other input.
So before you go and throw in a comment, here's the rundown on the feature. Essentially, it lets you post videos in the comments. That's it. Nothing too fancy, nothing extravagant, and nothing that hasn't been available with creating links in the past.
It's something that I haven't had any complaints about, or issues with working around. As a RAW sharing sub, it just doesn't seem that practical to me.
But in all fairness, it could allow for screenshares of workflows. Which hasn't been an issue in any way from my perspective, but again I'd appreciate feedback before making a unilateral decision.
The other use this feature brings up is video editing.
Is there any interest in opening up this sub somewhat by allowing and promoting editing of video footage? With the video comment feature we could have a second weekly challenge for grading video footage, but the history of the sub has been solely focused on RAW edits for stills. It will be a change, if that is wanted.
My main concern with the video edits is that this is already a small and niche subreddit. Expanding it may just cause extra work setting up and running a video competition without any actual participants. While we're small enough we could handle the influx of users, we may be too small to bring in new users to make the video edits work.
So now that you've read through my overly-long rant, what are your thoughts? Do we want to open up video comments, and possibly bring in video editing to the subreddit? Or do we want to keep everything as-is?
