Four new modules are added on the homepage, support for @users, video draggable progress bar, etc.
Editor’s note: This article comes from the WeChat public account “new list” (ID: newrankcn) , author: truffles.
The video number has another big move.
In the past few days, many users have discovered that the video number has been revised with several new features, such as changes to the home page and personal page, video support pause and fast forward, and the progress bar can be dragged.
The video number has been in closed beta since January 21, and it has been the biggest revision since it has been online for more than 5 months. However, at present, only Android users can experience this revision, we need to update WeChat to version 7.0.15, you can gradually see the new changes in the video number.
What specific changes have been made to the video number in this major revision? What opportunities do these changes bring to video creators? We helped everyone check the plate.
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Four new modules on the homepage
The most noticed aspect of this revision is the change in the information flow on the homepage.
Different from the single information stream of the previous version, the new version of the video number categorizes the source of the content, specifically divided into three list modules: “Following”, “Friends” and “Popular” instead of the original single “video number “And the “Nearby Video” module is added next to the symbol on the personal page.
Among them, “friends” is a module that best reflects the social attributes of WeChat.
This does not refer to watching videos sent by friends, but rather to watching videos liked by friends on WeChat. This logic is very similar to WeChat “take a look”.
Before this, the content of “multiple friends have seen” will appear in the video number information stream. This revision will more clearly compare the video number “like” function to the public number “watching” function. It will specifically show which friend liked this video.
If no friend has liked the content of the video number, the page will display “Go to Popularity” to guide users to watch and discover more content in the popular list.
For videos in the “Top” list, the number of likes is basically not less than three digits. These contents are recommended to users by the platform according to a certain algorithm. The specific logic is not yet known, but this means that the WeChat video number has a special entrance to recommend high-quality content, which may be a new opportunity for creators.
In addition, the video number has also added a “nearby video” entry where you can find content posted by nearby users. There is no unified standard for how to divide the nearby area. There are 3 kilometers, 6 kilometers, and 9 kilometers that have been discovered. The page does not present the complete picture of the video as the other three modules, only the nickname, video and copy.
For the new entrance of “Nearby Video”, there are comments that this is another form of socialization of strangers, and there are opinions that this will become an important entrance for local businesses to drain and can be accurately recommended to nearby Potential users.
However, this entrance is indeed a bit deep. Whether it can really bring the obvious effect for the drainage of local businesses as expected by these reviews still needs follow-up observation and practice.
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More detailed functional changes:
Support @users, video draggable progress bar…
In addition to the major homepage revision, the video number has also been adjusted and optimized for various details, including various problems that have been vomited by many users, such as the video cannot be paused and fast forwarded, and cannot be @other users Wait, the video number has been targeted for improvement.
1. Support @Other users, users can@any video number account.
2. The video can be paused. Drag the progress bar to fast forward or rewind.
