Fan Edits/Crowd Cutting

[ajayyy]

This is dump of ideas I took from my idea list, decided to make it public in case anyone else wants to comment

• [ ] Label specific parts to watch instead of specific parts to cut
• [ ] Allow non-linear playback (skip back and fourth)
• For submitting:
  • [ ] Longer seek bar should be created for precise seeking (with previews?)
  • [ ] There should be an easy way to get mark around existing segments
  • [ ] There should be a way to fork a previous submission to add on to it
  • [ ] Later stages of the feature: there should be a way to merge forks
• For watching:
  • [ ] Instead of overlays like SponsorBlock, the entire seek bar should be rewritten to look like playback is linear (or just have a new seek bar placed on top and make the other one have lower opacity?)
  • [ ] A list of all edits should be available on each video sorted by votes/reputation. A user must click on an edit to watch it

Undetermined:

• Who can do this, only people with high reputation?
• Should there be a prompt alerting users of existing edits?
• Where does this edits list go that is not obtrusive?
• Should this be built into a separate browser extension, is it too different?
• How do edits co-exist with existing segments of community chapters?
• Is this too complicated for a crowd-sourced tool? Would anyone even use this?

[Vee-Jay]

Fan edit should be made as a separate addon/plugin since it doesn't intend to block anything. The objective given here seems to make a cut, for instance to view only comedy, songs or action scene. The new plugin could pull existing segment markers from sponsor block to make it easier. Sponsor block is supported and being used by other project and having the new feature as a separate app helps to keep sponsorblock easy to maintain by reducing the functionality to essentials.