Finally, you can watch Douyin on your computer! Detailed experience of Douyin web version

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Many netizens want to watch Douyin on their computers, but in the past, if you wanted to watch Douyin on your computer, you had to install an Android emulator. Now, the official Douyin web version is here, and you can finally watch Douyin on your computer easily. Let's take a look at this web version to see if it is easy to use.

Where is the Douyin web version? The official address of the Douyin web version

Open the homepage of Douyin (https://www.douyin.com/), you can see that this Douyin web version, which is in beta, uses the traditional video website design layout, with a search bar at the top, followed by video categories, and then various recommended videos. In short, the layout is very similar to that of a certain website.

The Douyin web version currently categorizes videos into live broadcast, entertainment, knowledge, ACG, games, food, sports, fashion, and music. However, it is a bit speechless that there is no "My Follow" category.

Figure 1: Home page of the Douyin web version

Unlike what I imagined, the Douyin web version does not use the single video display mode like the client version. Users need to click to play videos one by one. However, the Douyin web version has an automatic play function for users. After the video is played, it will automatically switch to the next recommended video, giving you another refreshing experience of automatically scrolling through videos.

Tik Tok web version with search function

The search function of the Douyin web version has a keyword association function, and users can filter the search results.

Figure 2 Search function

Figure 3 Search results filtering

The web version of TikTok supports logging in to your account to view your own works

Currently, the web version of Douyin supports login operations. Users can log in using a verification code or scanning a QR code. After logging in, they can post videos and view their own works. Unfortunately, it does not support viewing favorite videos, which is a very big flaw.

Figure 4 Personal Center

The web version of TikTok supports publishing video works

Posting videos on the Douyin web version supports videos that are no larger than 4G and less than 15 minutes in length, as well as adding descriptions and tags, associating hot spots, setting covers, and whether to allow saving videos and syncing to other platforms.

There is a preview area on the right side of the work publishing page, which allows users to check how the upcoming video will look when viewed on a mobile phone.

Figure 5: Release video

In addition, the Douyin web version also comes with an extremely simple video editing tool. The reason why it is simple is that it currently only supports video cropping, and it can't even add background sound, let alone special effects. So it is better to edit the video in other editing software before publishing it.

Figure 6 Video editing tool

In fact, posting videos on the Douyin web version will redirect you to the "Douyin Creation Service Platform", where you can also manage content and interactions and view various data.

What is it like to watch TikTok on your computer?

There are a lot of recommended videos in the Douyin web version, and users can scroll down to find the videos they are interested in. Move the cursor into the video preview box to automatically play it without sound. However, the video recommendation rules of the Douyin web version seem to be a bit different from the client version. Most of the recommended content is not what I like. The most ridiculous thing is that I didn't see a single beauty video.

Let's take a look at the video viewing experience on the Douyin web version. Click on any video, and a large video player will appear in front of you, with recommended videos on the right column. Users can like, comment and share.

Figure 7 View videos (the right column contains recommended videos)

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Figure 8 Watching the video in full screen

I have to say that watching videos on the Douyin web version is much more enjoyable than watching them on the small screen of a mobile phone. It is also very enjoyable to watch high-definition short videos, but it is a pity that the video clarity adjustment function is not currently supported.

The built-in video player of the Douyin web version supports adjustable playback, full-screen playback, and auto-play function. With the auto-play function, it will automatically switch to the next video after playing a video. For users who like to watch video collections, using the auto-play function, a collection can be seamlessly continued, which is refreshing! However, it will automatically exit the full screen when switching videos, which I hope to improve.

Figure 9 Automatically connect video collection (the right column is the video collection)

When you want to read the comments, scroll the content area to the area covering the video, and the video will automatically shrink to the lower right corner to continue playing.

Figure 10 Floating playback window

It is convenient to download videos without watermarks for the time being

Careful users have discovered that the videos played on the Douyin web version do not have the Douyin classic watermark, and the downloaded videos also do not have the watermark. It's just that the Douyin web version does not currently provide a video download function like the client. However, there are many ways to download videos on a computer.

Figure 11 Which method do you use to download the video?

Summarize

Does the emergence of the Douyin web version mean that authors no longer have to pursue short videos and can instead make longer videos? Watching Douyin on the big screen of a computer is indeed a different experience, so why not give it a try? It's a pity that the functions of the Douyin web version are still too simple, and I hope that the missing functions can be supplemented in the future.