~Vengeance

So I've been trying to watch a couple of videos for the last half an hour and maybe it's because Vessel's servers are overloaded right now but the experience has been terrible.
 
The interface is bulky and clunky; I have 4 videos open in chrome as well as the forum and it's almost using a ridiculous amount of memory. I can't middle click to open a video in a new tab and I can't double click to make a video full screen. The amount of screen real estate taken up on the home screen as well as "new releases" and "popular" pages is super inefficient to sort through. Account Settings are the most bare-bone I have seen in a long time. These complaints are on a high end desktop. I literally can't load more than one tab at a time on my low-medium performance laptop. 
 
The bit rate looks even worse than Youtube and the HD content, despite looking like it is 720p, loads at a tenth of the speed I can load a 4k video on Youtube, and I have a 100 mbps fibre connection. I literally can not watch a video. Again, it could be that the servers are over loaded but still, a sub-par experience so far. 
 
Overall, I feel like this is just segmenting my viewing. I still need to watch most of my content on Youtube however, I now need to visit Vessel of a minority of my content. This is exactly why I no longer watch TV; because I need to use a bunch of different services to get everything I want to watch. The transition seemed a little hasty, and the service Vessel offers needs a bit of work before it is up to that of Youtube which is really saying something. I'll try again tomorrow and see if my opinions have changed. 

Do you have an extra pc? If so, try running the pc on that OS (But taking the HDD/SSD out) and then booting your, quite beast pc, on that OS so you/we can see if it is Software or Hardware... Or download a linux to a Usb drive.