I don’t understand why Dailymotion makes it so hard for users to watch content on their platform. Almost everything about it is set up to put off users engaging with it.1. The system automatically queues up irrelevant content to play—unlike YouTube.2. The only way to avoid this is to only play videos from a user generated playlist.3. There is no way to switch off autoplay on devices I’m using (Apple based).4. There is no easy way to create Playlists — have to find each video, click on it which makes it play and only then can it be added to user’s own playlist. Infuriating and time consuming.5. Terrible search engine — only way to find much on it is to use google.As a result I mostly avoid Dailymotion. It seems it may have more user friendly options for uploaders who join their partner programme (whatever that is!) as there are details of organising playlists for those who sign up to that. But I don’t get what the point of that is — if you upload content to it, users are hindered from accessing it. I have wondered if it is awful for users by design because it may have so little content, making it desperate to aggressively push it on to users just to get the views. When I have used the site, I have definitely accidentally watched lots of bits of videos that are absolutely of no interest to me.
