Reviews for Reddit on Youtube
Reddit on Youtube by mkalash
Review by David
Rated 4 out of 5
by David, 6 years agoThe latest update increase the font size, which looks nicer to me, although a point or two lower would be fine too. Perhaps an option to set font size would be best to suit all users?
Being able to see all different reddit pages on youtube videos is one of my absolute favorite extensions on a web browser, in order to get different discussions on said videos. On chrome, alientube was good until the dev stopped support; although it was picked up and reworked on github to work wonderfully again.
Switching to firefox, i couldn't get the new alientube to work right, but this extension has been a perfectly good substitute. For a short while i couldn't get it to consistently load on all videos, even when i knew there were reddit pages on a video, they just wouldn't show up. As of recently its been perfect though, and been exactly what i want.
I'm giving it 4 stars as its almost perfect but the occasional error when reddit posts don't show up was frustrating, and a way to change the font/ scale (although i like the bigger size as of today's update)
Being able to see all different reddit pages on youtube videos is one of my absolute favorite extensions on a web browser, in order to get different discussions on said videos. On chrome, alientube was good until the dev stopped support; although it was picked up and reworked on github to work wonderfully again.
Switching to firefox, i couldn't get the new alientube to work right, but this extension has been a perfectly good substitute. For a short while i couldn't get it to consistently load on all videos, even when i knew there were reddit pages on a video, they just wouldn't show up. As of recently its been perfect though, and been exactly what i want.
I'm giving it 4 stars as its almost perfect but the occasional error when reddit posts don't show up was frustrating, and a way to change the font/ scale (although i like the bigger size as of today's update)
62 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by BOBOUDA, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by akasico1, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fennemon, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kirani, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15018726, 4 years agoDoesn't seem to work on the Classic YouTube layout with Polymer disabled anymore, which makes it functionally useless to me. It's served me well for a while, but it unfortunately doesn't work anymore.
- Rated 5 out of 5by sdert1778, 4 years agolove this extension :) Sadly it seems to not work anymore for the old youtube style (polymer disabled)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Serpent10i, 4 years agoEdit: Dev replied and showed how to enable this functionality! Was: 3 stars; Now: 5 stars
Works fine but totally hides youtube comments, so if a creator leaves a link in the comments or you need to see them for whatever reason you must entirely disable the plugin to see them.Developer response
posted 4 years agoYou can customize how the addon works, including adding a button to show YouTube comments and changing which comments display by default. Under Reddit on YouTube on Firefox's addon page, select the three dots, then select options. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13265294, 4 years agoWorked well up until today. I think youtube redesigned the comment section again.
- Rated 5 out of 5by A. Keller, 4 years agoWorks (recent redesign does not cause issues)
Update (2020-05-28): no issues - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15468740, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Coldblackice, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Aditya, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Swift the Fox, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15682171, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BlizzardFenix, 5 years agoEDIT: I found the way to toggle it: You have to select "options" after clicking on the three dots in the firefox addon page. Now this addon is great and does exactly what you need it to do.
Old review:
It does a good job of showing the reddit comments, but the inability to switch between reddit and youtube comments makes this extention useless for less popular videos. Note that there is a checkbox to toggle this per channel, however this doesn't seem to do anything for me. - Rated 4 out of 5by John01, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by NostraDavid, 5 years agoFor some reason I can't hide the Reddit comments on the newest version of YouTube.
It does show the Reddit posts, but if it shows "No posts found" I definitely can't hide the reddit part and show the YT comments :( - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12458607, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by JackH3103, 5 years agoGreat add-on. Allows you to switch between different reddit posts and the youtube comments with minimal lag.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoI've toyed around with different display settings, but I could not reproduce your alignment issue. Please take a screenshot and include some details like Firefox version and other addons that may be affecting the YouTube layout and create an issue here: https://github.com/mustafakalash/royt/issues - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12700628, 5 years ago