There were some pretty cool tools you could use to enjoy some of the most entertaining six-second videos on a regular desktop or laptop computer rather than waiting for people you follow to share them on Twitter. Here’s a list of Vine viewer websites that once allowed you to discover new Vines and even search for specific tags or users. Users could simply visit Vine.co and start browsing through channels, featured Viners, editor’s picks, playlists, trending tags, and more. You even used to be able to log in to your account to see your personalized feed and use your account from the web just as you could from the app. Using whatever web browser of your choice, you could search through Vine videos quickly and use the search bar in the top right corner to look for Vines tagged with a particular keyword or videos uploaded from specific users. You used to be able to navigate to the Vine tab to see Vine videos in a grid layout style similar to Vine Viewer. When you clicked on a Vine, you could use the arrows to navigate through to the next or previous videos or wait for it to move to the next one on its own. The most popular videos were shown on the homepage by default, but you could use the buttons at the top to look at funny videos, videos posted by top Viners, and more. This Vine viewer tool once showed you a never-ending stream of recently uploaded Vine videos in real-time, automatically moving on to the next one, but now it seems to just display them at random. You can also see the Twitter tweet and user link from where the Vine came from as it’s shown to you. A grid-like layout appeared in a new page with Vine video thumbnails (unfortunately not all thumbnails seemed to load correctly), and you were able to click on any one of them to watch it. You used to be able to simply choose the grid style you want to see and watch. You could watch one video at a time, four videos at a time, or as many as nine videos at a time with VinesZap. All you had to do was roll your cursor over any video to turn on the sound so you could listen to it as it plays. This site showed the latest videos uploaded, none of which were moderated.
