A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there's a little something different with the look of the website.

A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there’s a little something different with the look of the website.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    372·
    7 months ago

    I would expect nothing less from Google, TBH. I already use like 3 plugins to fix their shitty design decisions.

        • okamiueru@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          7 months ago

          Aha. For the desktop, I just use FreeTube that has those built in. Downside is not having the same interaction with the YouTube account to keep track of what you’ve seen.

          For the mobile device I used a modded version of the official app that also does them.

          For the TV I have a custom android app that I share a YouTube URI to, and it sends it to the home server, downloads the video with yt-dlp and makes it available on jellyfin.

          For some reason, having extensions on the browser just creeps me out. They have permissions to do so much, and know so much.

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    I experienced it yesterday. The comments being on the right side can work, but they missed the opportunity to allow the user to scroll down the comments while having the video panel stationary. So the new design did nothing, net zero.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      You can, you just have to click on that “expand” button instead of able to do it right away.

      Like, why, goog, why

  • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    7 months ago

    Very recently I started noticing that if you search anything on YouTube you don’t find what you need at all unless you add many keywords and even then, the site only gives you one coherent answer and tons of garbage you don’t need.

    Mostly because, instead of giving you videos on the full set of keywords you use, it gives the first video which is based on all of them, and all subsequent videos based on just a single of such keywords, so mainly you get a lot of crap from influencers or such.

    Has anyone else experienced this and knows if there is a way around it?

    • Meron35@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      Nope, been happening way before that and ProZD already made a video documenting it about a month ago. You can improve the results somewhat by playing around with the “tags” at the top of the screen.

      https://youtu.be/Z3dSkkEr-wk

    • ErilElidor@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Yesterday I noticed something. I was searching for a few different things, but only got completely random garbage. That was the only time so far I noticed that. Before yesterday the search was fine. I hoped that was just a hiccup, but we will see…

  • slimarev92@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    Looks like crap, but the fact they’re testing it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re going to deploy it for everyone. Sometimes they do test with a small subset of users to see how people respond to specific things.

  • zinderic@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    I think that the idea here is to get user attention towards more “linked” videos rather than things they normally look for. Cheap trick.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
    41·
    7 months ago

    I don’t really comment much on youtube and i hate it. This design really feels like whoever make the decision spend too much time on porn site.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    2·
    7 months ago

    It’s really annoying. And the funny part is, it flip flops each time I visit. Comments on the right, comments below, right, below. Google is famous for mucking things up. Maybe someone should get User input for once.

  • Teon@kbin.social
    1·
    7 months ago

    It’s really annoying. And the funny part is, it flip flops each time I visit. Comments on the right, comments below, right, below.
    Google is famous for mucking things up.
    Maybe someone should get User input for once.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    My grandma would say “the devil fiddled so much with the son’s eye that he pierced it”. That’s the case here - user interface designers keep messing with shit that works fine, until it doesn’t.