Havent seen it, I know I’ll hate it. I have never seen a UI redesign by any company that was actually good. Maybe once, but couldn’t remember them for the life of me.
Youtube has had multiple redesigns over its lifespan, and I’ll bet you probably do prefer the last one over their original 2005 UI.
Absolutely. A particular bugbear of mine is the “Continue as $username on $TV?” drag-up panel at the bottom when it detects another TV on the same network.
No YouTube, I’d have clicked that big fuckoff cast button in the top right if I wanted people to see my Celine Dion addiction in sixty diagonal inches. Worse still, you have to swipe away the panel before clicking on any other link or tappable object in view.
It’s not just the once either. Fuck off.
e: and another thing, fuck your shorts too. I’ll watch them when I actually want (and bear with me here) short form content, not crowbarred into my search results like an algorithmic equivalent of someone wearing a white dress at someone else’s wedding. Fuck all the way off.
I don’t really like it, but I can see it being helpful for some people with vision issues. Or more likely toddlers navigating a tablet, the real demographic prize for ad clicks.
Never before have YouTube users hated a new (worse) design
Honestly, the new design fixes the one thing that’s bothered me about the old player for years, which is the shading it applies to the bottom portion of the video when the UI is open. If I want to pause to read some text at the bottom of the video, I’m just out of luck because it’s basically blacked out the bottom of the screen for no discernible reason. This new UI is a lot cleaner in that regard.
My beef with this new design is that it needlessly takes up more space. It’s comical when the video is small; the scroll bar can be near the middle of the video sometimes. And on top of this it feels slower and less responsive.
I watched a letterboxed video earlier and it cropped the black bars and made my video a little narrow strip at the top left. I thought I was losing it then it started beachballing in an attempt to keep up with it’s own micromanagement horseshit rather than, you know, playing a video.
They made an artistic decision on content they don’t create, just host.
It’s fucking goofy.
