The thing is that you can’t notice when it’s working on account of how seamless it is. Yes, sometimes it breaks down, but these are the exceptional cases.
No, it’s a matter of feedback. Right now how it works is the video stops playing, and maybe it’ll start in 3 seconds, or maybe it’ll never start again until I’m dead and don’t give a shit anymore. Before you caught up to the buffering bar, and it stopped, but you got some indication of how long it’ll take, or if it was just broken and needed to be restarted.
The thing is that you can’t notice when it’s working on account of how seamless it is. Yes, sometimes it breaks down, but these are the exceptional cases.
No, it’s a matter of feedback. Right now how it works is the video stops playing, and maybe it’ll start in 3 seconds, or maybe it’ll never start again until I’m dead and don’t give a shit anymore. Before you caught up to the buffering bar, and it stopped, but you got some indication of how long it’ll take, or if it was just broken and needed to be restarted.