Thursday, December 6, 2012

OMGWTF YOUTUBE SUCKS RAGE RAGE RAGE

Nah, since I have a brain and actually noticed that all they changed was a bunch of font sizes, I'm not about to rip them a new one. Of course it would help if they started improving stuff, but the fact (yes, it IS a fact) that they stopped going downwards for at least one change, as minor as it is, is a start. Hopefully.

Of course, there's no hivemind quite like the internet, so I'm not expecting everyone to catch on to the painfully obvious, but hey, maybe after another three and a half billion years evolution will finally give us a worthy payoff. (Provided we don't die from our own stupidity in the meantime.)

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  1. They should announce when they are going to change the layout, however small it is, and give a preview so people have time to adjust, complain etc etc... But there is no excuse for not fixing the real problems, but oh well i guess.

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  2. Yeah, I noticed that the homepage wasn't changed all that much and that actually it was a little bit easier to navigate. (but not by a significant amount)

    They're still royally ignoring the real issue though. The channel pages are still downright atrocious... and I also got reminded of having one again apparently.

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  3. Every. Fucking. Video. The top comment is ALWAYS complaining about the new layout. I actually like the video placement more, as now playlist bars on the bottom of the screen won't cover up a portion of the large video-players. The Guide feature seems... Relatively useless. They did take away the 'browsing recent videos' feature from the video pages, though, and that's annoying.

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  4. Since I am lame and use my iPhone to stream YouTube videos usually (I found this app called Jasmine that is a better YouTube app than the newer official one), I will not complain about the new format, though it did take some getting used to when I actually go on the website itself. They still need to make YouTube better (cougholdoldchannellayout). Also, this has nothing to do with the topic, but how long do you think the idiots need to kill us all. Well, some of them will probably kill themselves because they do not realize that the 12/21/12 conspiracy is a load of bull crap that was peed upon, then crapped on, etc? I hate to advertise someone with no talent whatsoever, but I am making a video that will go up by the 22nd that basically is a Take That to the ten morons who still believe that conspiracy. I am almost done with it...

    I am mixed about the fact that I have to rant and change topics in comments. Then again, I am a depressed, masochistic jerk of an aspie, so I guess I pick at each and every one of my flaws. I know that, like a scab, I am not supposed to, but I cannot help myself...

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    1. I know that feel bro... Except that for me it's more like being a procrastinating self-righteous jerk with anger issues. Because I have way too much moral values to be able to keep my sanity after spending a long time on the internet.

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  5. Well I think the video front page is okay. However the Home page is terrible the worst I have ever seen. I mean it more looks like a Facebook wall. Seriously, on top I had a video RECOMMENDED by Youtube of the presidential debate in the USA because I watched a video about it 2 months ago. I in fact had to scroll down a bit to find an actual upload of my subscriptions. In the old hame page it at least was possible to choose "Only uploads" but now?
    1. video: comment of one of your friends
    2. video: some random Feed
    3. video: recommended by Youtube
    4. video: someone I have never seen before...
    5. video: just...something
    6. video: oh Slowflake uploaded something...thanks by the way for telling me...

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    1. This is new? Sure, we've hit the bottom of the barrel, but that was last time. Right now we're sort of hovering in a state of quantum indecision a few centimeters above the bottom.

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    2. Oh, and by the way, you can just click "My subscriptions", then "Uploads only". BOOM. Problem solved in two clicks.

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  6. I go to youtube primarily for my subscriptions, not to social network or see youtube's recommendations for me. Before I could just open up youtube and it would show me uploads from my subscriptions, but for some reason they now shoving "What to watch" in my face, with the new videos being annoying to find. Why are they wanting so badly for me to see videos they acknowledge that I've seen before? Just...sigh.

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    1. Annoying to find = clicking "My subscriptions" and "Uploads only". Literally a two-second job. Two clicks. Annoying.

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    2. It is also annoying in that you have to do it every time. Sure, it literally takes no time...but I like saving every microsecond I can...
      YouTube. Trolling its users since 2005...

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    3. Sorry for that incoherence. Yes, I was referring to having to click twice to do what was done automatically before. I have just habitually just clicked the youtube icon in the top left after watching a video, and it just went to the uploads only list. Guess I have to retrain myself to use the back button on my browser. It was tedious enough trying to access videos from someone's channel, and now they're making the main page (which I considered an improvement in the last overhaul) less user-friendly. It's just disappointing and baffling that they seem to be systematically eliminating those little conveniences, especially after a really bad day at university.

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    4. Well, can't you just bookmark that particular tab, if clicking twice is such a (first world) problem?

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    5. Actually, I just use the highest rated YouTube client on my iPhone, so I do not have to worry about that first world problem very much. The other guy, on the other hand...

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  7. I think they made it much better this time around
    ..Except they managed to break my black yt background plugin. IT BURNS!

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  8. I fixed all of my grievances with three plugins.

    One re-centres everything again - left-aligned is ugly.
    Two automatically redirects me from the home page to the uploads-only subscriptions page - I ad-block the pointless bars on the sides of the page, so I can't "just click twice" to get back to it.
    Three puts back the darkened stripe behind the video player, because I liked that.

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  9. I did find one legitimate problem. Before, you could access any video made around the same time as the one you're currently watching by the same person. I loved that feature.

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