LJ launched a beta test of their own video hosting

The news of this appeared on Thursday in the community of beta testers LJ.



The functional is the easiest yet: uploading videos and creating albums (LJ-photo hosting is working on the same principle).


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It is curious that out of 21 comments on this news, 4 contain the question: “Why?” - and not a single answer from the administration. Meanwhile, users' doubts are clear: own video hosting is a costly matter, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, it imposes increased requirements on service stability, with which LJ has historically big problems.



I hope I can get an official comment on this from LiveJournal.

In the meantime, access to functions in beta test mode is available to any users who have switched to beta server mode. In this case, their video will be available to them at% username% .livejournal.com / video /

PS In general, the laurels of "YouTube" do not give anyone peace: here and "Vkontakte" today updated its video .