[HN Gopher] Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we ...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to
       be 88% smaller
        
       What do you do when private equity buys your old company and fires
       the maintainers of the popular open source project you started over
       a decade ago? You reboot it, and bring along some new friends to do
       it.  Video.js is used by billions of people every month, on sites
       like Amazon.com, Linkedin, and Dropbox, and yet it wasn't in great
       shape. A skeleton crew of maintainers were doing their best with a
       dated architecture, but it needed more. So Sam from Plyr, Rahim
       from Vidstack, and Wes and Christain from Media Chrome jumped in to
       help me rebuild it better, faster, and smaller.  It's in beta now.
       Please give it a try and tell us what breaks.
        
       Author : Heff
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2026-03-24 18:03 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (videojs.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (videojs.org)
        
       | nakodari wrote:
       | Absolutely love what you and your friends have built. Great work!
       | Will give it a spin.
        
       | sam_goody wrote:
       | Very nice. Good Luck!
       | 
       | Did the private equity buy the domain videojs.org (did it take
       | control of the project and you somehow regained control after
       | selling) or was this domain (and the project) always under your
       | control?
        
       | thedanbob wrote:
       | Very nice! I switched off video.js some time ago because it kept
       | giving me trouble. Looking forward to trying this new version.
        
       | michaelsalim wrote:
       | Looking great. I'll give it a try later on once things stabilize
       | a bit. In the meantime, does anyone know what's going on in this
       | space? Seems to me like a lot is changing over the past year. Eg:
       | react-player new version, taken over by Mux. And also I did
       | realize Video.js is sponsored by Mux. And also seemingly
       | different companies working together.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2026-03-24 23:00 UTC)