Vimeo, This Is The End

[Davide DB]

Once upon a time, Vimeo.

For reasons officially unknown (I'll come back to this later) Vimeo stopped being, for us Europeans, a community of video storytellers. (As it still likes to call itself).

Basically, in certain regions of the world you can no longer use the video search function and at the same time you can no longer browse other users' videos. 
I can only see and search my own videos and eventually see a video of another user only if I have its link. Even if I know his name I cannot search for him. I can only see his profile if I know his exact url.
This post sums up what happened:

 

https://shortverse.beehiiv.com/p/vime-nooo

 

I am so angry. 

 

• Because I noticed it by accident and I also looked like an idiot because I as well as thousands of other users thought it was a bug. No communication at all. Out of the blue. The entire UE community lost.
• Because the membership fee is the same for everyone but I have most of the features disabled.

 

Those who read this thread and, for example, have an account in the U.S. or other countries not affected by this ban might think that this does not affect them.

But it absolutely does not!

I have several friends in the U.S. who use their Vimeo account for showreels, basically a videocentric Linked-in. In their profile they have written "available for hire." Here, you must know that their profile is no longer searchable from banned countries. And we don't even know which ones they are. I can only access a video of theirs via direct link but I can't go to their profile or search them by name via the search function.

 

This is my following people page:

 

 

I can see their names but I cannot click on their profile icons. Sounds like a joke. What is the point of these lists now?

 

Just imagine my frustration, I've been a member for 13 years and I've developed a whole network of relationships over all these years and now I can't even see the profiles of people I've collaborated with, anymore.

 

Think about it before you renew your subscription!

[bghazzal]

This really beggars belief... Not having a paid account, I'm not an active Vimeo user, but do have a lurking account and often watch videos on the platform (through a VPN in Indonesia, as Vimeo is blocked).

 I created the account when I was working in Mexico, so unaffected for now, or maybe it's because I log in through a VPN, not sure.

This is really up there with other odd management decisions virtually killing off a platfrom - similarly, Flickr also went through some pretty intense changes if I remember correctly.

Wonder if there will be actual communication from Vimeo on the subject, or if they're just planning on letting the platform rot away.

Reminds me of the evolution in video consumption habits discussed in "popularity of video vs photography" thread. In a time were online video is dominated by reels and shorts, often superslomo clips aimed to be watched (dare I say consumed?) in vertical format on phones, maybe high quality video hosting platforms such as this, now mostly a video linked in aimed at professionals and high-end users willing to pay to host their footage, are bound to drift into oblivion...
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Edited November 3 by bghazzal

[humu9679]

19 hours ago, Davide DB said:

Once upon a time, Vimeo.

For reasons officially unknown (I'll come back to this later) Vimeo stopped being, for us Europeans, a community of video storytellers. (As it still likes to call itself).

Basically, in certain regions of the world you can no longer use the video search function and at the same time you can no longer browse other users' videos. 
I can only see and search my own videos and eventually see a video of another user only if I have its link. Even if I know his name I cannot search for him. I can only see his profile if I know his exact url.
This post sums up what happened:

 

https://shortverse.beehiiv.com/p/vime-nooo

 

I am so angry. 

 

• Because I noticed it by accident and I also looked like an idiot because I as well as thousands of other users thought it was a bug. No communication at all. Out of the blue. The entire UE community lost.
• Because the membership fee is the same for everyone but I have most of the features disabled.

 

Those who read this thread and, for example, have an account in the U.S. or other countries not affected by this ban might think that this does not affect them.

But it absolutely does not!

I have several friends in the U.S. who use their Vimeo account for showreels, basically a videocentric Linked-in. In their profile they have written "available for hire." Here, you must know that their profile is no longer searchable from banned countries. And we don't even know which ones they are. I can only access a video of theirs via direct link but I can't go to their profile or search them by name via the search function.

 

This is my following people page:

 

 

I can see their names but I cannot click on their profile icons. Sounds like a joke. What is the point of these lists now?

 

Just imagine my frustration, I've been a member for 13 years and I've developed a whole network of relationships over all these years and now I can't even see the profiles of people I've collaborated with, anymore.

 

Think about it before you renew your subscription!

 

That's messed up.

[Davide DB]

Users from all Europe are discovering the sad news and all of them think it's a bug.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/vimeo/