Is this for real? Every year they find a way to enshitify the platform. I use youtube mostly in browser and read comments all of the times.
I miss the 2014 days when you could customize your channel with custom full-page backgrounds, flexbox organization, and transparency customization. I think at one point you could use your own CSS, although it was pre-CS3 so not great but still way better than the scraps we have now.
There are plugins for this, like Enhancer for YouTube. :)
Stylus, usercss.
I think that’s a problem with your user agent; I don’t see that
The other possibility is that you’ve been screwed over by an A/B test and we’re all doomed…
Yeah, looks like the mobile web version of youtube, but on desktop.
Yeah not seeing that either. His recommendations seems broken aswell. Just political videos
why is everyone making decisions in tech completely fucking bereft of sense
The moves only make sense if you know what game they’re playing. In this case, there aren’t any ads in the comments, so why would they want you to spend time there?
Of course there are ads in the comments, everything from sketchy plastic surgery links to even sketchier porn links to somehow less sketchy dick enlargement pills. The dick pill thing will still take over your PC and make it either a bot net or Bitcoin miner.
Well yes but Google doesn’t get a cut from those ads.
Ha!
Money
The amount of times that this is the answer is honestly worrying.
I wish it were contained to only the tech industry.
They’re bereft of sense if you consider the goal of a good user experience. If you set the goal as to have your user addicted and stay on the platform as long as possible, they’re perfectly logical decision.
if they actually remove comments, I’m done. the API scandal got me off of Reddit and the comments being gone will get me away from YouTube. I only really watch it while I’m eating as is.
I think they just swapped it over to the bottom right side and swapped the video feed to center left, but it’s still super scuffed imo.
I see. Well, at least my local rehike front-end won’t break then. but still that’s so bad. I hate the new trend of every desktop site pretending you’re on an iPad in terms of layout.
If they get rid of comments I will find a way to visit them more. Video comments are freaking toxic I can’t say I’ve ever found anything useful in them either
I disagree, and maybe my tastes are niche. I’m a very amateur gunsmith and look up how-to’s on weird shit I can’t figure out. Often the answer is in the comments.
“This guy has mostly got it, but do step B before A.”
Or:
“I had this issue and fixed it with $X.”
I’d guess a lot of technical/mechanical/niche stuff works like that? I don’t look at the comments on popular stuff.
Same. Comments are needed for pretty much everything I use Youtube for. If you’re just watching a streamer or something I guess they can go away but I’m trying to learn shit here.
I generally agree with you, but if you have a moment, go check out the comments to this one song. I dunno what weird human resonance it hit but all the comments are incredibly sweet and endearing even at 55m views https://youtu.be/tSv04ylc6To?si=0SNNfvvsI2aBFnWa
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Videos!! Videoooos!! Watch more videooos!! frothes at the mouth
Honestly, it’s very frustrating because I rely on YouTube as a Creator and avid Commentator and I absolutely won’t give out the credentials used to post things to another party.
John Oliver, Linus, and The Daily Show? We have a very similar taste in YouTube videos.
Maybe you’re wrong and the YouTube Algorithms are just shit, ever think of that? You’re not wrong, though.
I keep my watch history off, and no subs. I use bookmarks. The algorithm has no clue
My statement was about how my recommendations in the screenshot are meaningless, not that YOUR recommendations were meaningless.
That’s terrible, the frontends are kind of ugly in many ways but that’s so much worse
YouTube comments have been taking a nose dive since the Google+ integration.
It’s slowed down significantly; but I’m so sick of getting a reply to every comment I post, disguised as the video creator, trying to phish me over to telegram or some other external bullshit.
I solved the spambot problem on my channel by blocking every single emoji as well as some common forms of url extension
clever
I haven’t visited youtube with anything except Youtube (Re)Vanced in at least 6 years…
The recent Apple TV interface update is TERRIBLE too. They’re taking up more space with less content so I can’t see more than two or three saved videos in my playlist at a time. And it’s a pain in the ass to even get to a playlist now. Really terrible, but I love some of the creators, so I don’t know what else to do.
Yes, but might I say you have fine taste in content. I know those hands!
