Why youtube? Why?

Babar · Sat 03/12/2011 13:28:08

Always having had Adblock Plus, and not knowing much internet without it, I often miss out on new "Oh no, they've started having ads in ......." stuff like that.

I didn't even KNOW that youtube was full of ads now. I just see the occasional user-inserted overlay things where they're doing self-promotion or something.

The forums don't use ads, do they?! :o

blueskirt · Sat 03/12/2011 19:18:32

I'm one step ahead of you all, I hate all new designs, period. For some reason, all website updates have to be more bloated than the previous ones. And I don't like wasting my time learning once again where the buttons and features I use the most are, which is the number one reason why I'm not changing OS, browsers, keyboard layout, music player, chatting program or drawing software.

In fact, my desktop has not changed in 11 years. The first thing I did when I updated to XP was to revert to the classic windows look. I listen music in the same program I grabbed when I downloaded the Pleurghburg soundtrack, I still use Paint Shop Pro 7, which was taught to us in college, I still use mIRC, and I still use the skin a friend made when we were in college, and I use Opera since 2003 or so and every time I updated it I had to fight tooth and nail to disable most of the new features and make it look exactly how it looked before I updated it.

I miss the days where I could open 70 different tabs in Opera without hogging all the memory, without making the browser stutter. Yep, there was such a time.

Dualnames · Sat 03/12/2011 19:35:37

I hate changes, why did youtube had to change to such an extent? I can't remove a video after I've seen it, the subscriptions are now entirely glitched, the new layout offers EXACTLY nothing new, and people complain about ads I already have removed. A totally wrong move.

monkey0506 · Sat 03/12/2011 20:56:58

Am I the only person who couldn't care less about it because the search feature and playback haven't really changed as a result of this redesign?

Stupot · Sat 03/12/2011 21:05:11

Quote from: monkey_05_06 on Sat 03/12/2011 20:56:58
Am I the only person who couldn't care less about it because the search feature and playback haven't really changed as a result of this redesign?

Nope, me neither. I wouldn't call myself much of a 'user' of Youtube. I just watch videos on it.

Ryan Timothy B · Sun 04/12/2011 12:09:10

Quote from: monkey_05_06 on Sat 03/12/2011 20:56:58
Am I the only person who couldn't care less about it because the search feature and playback haven't really changed as a result of this redesign?

lol Same.

WHAM · Sun 04/12/2011 16:30:07

Complaining about ads is pointless: ads will continue to exist and prosper for as long as people want to be paid for their creations and other people are unwilling to pay, but still want the content. It's a price you pay if you want the content.

The new layout is fine by me, although it does trouble me that where the old one could be easily customized, the new cannot. Makes differentiating between channels and styles a bit harder.

m0ds · Mon 05/12/2011 18:18:33

Not a fan. I don't really need all websites to look like they're designed for blackberry phones. Just one of those sites that feel they need to be better on a phone than on an internet browser. I don't need a gigantic gold bar telling me VIDEO IS UPLOADED!!!1 when small red text used to do that fine - I have a big enough monitor not a 5 inch LCD screen. Oh well. Also the "Try the new design!" always seems like a con to me. I know even if I don't try it they're still going to switch me over to it.

Tuomas · Mon 05/12/2011 19:05:01

Seeing as how most big sites already have mobile versions, youtube included, that would seem a bit daft. I guess it's for elderly people

Also, I can see how when the screen is full of stuff, like, in the worst possible case, the www.ryanair.com site, you need to have huge red text stating what is important and worthwhile and what not.

And yeah, at least in facebook it seems that the whole "try the new design" is rather a notification or a commercial of what's inevitable so that people will start talking about it before everyone gets it. It's like a hat in elementary school that says "wear this to get lice".

Peder 🚀 · Mon 05/12/2011 19:17:28

Quote from: m0ds on Mon 05/12/2011 18:18:33
"Try the new design!"

It is all about having users try it before they launch it so they can get some feedback and possibly do last minute changes.
At least this would be the only reason I would ever do something like that, to get feedback on the new system/design and to be able to do changes before forcing everyone to use it incase there is something completely off that those who try finds and then hopefully notify.

Stupot · Mon 05/12/2011 21:08:21

Quote from: m0ds on Mon 05/12/2011 18:18:33
"Try the new design!"

You had a choice? I didn't. I just went to Youtube one day and it looked different. Oh wells.

m0ds · Mon 05/12/2011 23:33:10

Quote from: Stupot+ on Mon 05/12/2011 21:08:21
Quote from: m0ds on Mon 05/12/2011 18:18:33
"Try the new design!"

You had a choice? I didn't. I just went to Youtube one day and it looked different. Oh wells.

Oh yesh, I hadn't seen the overall design. meh! My account view was where I must have been given the choice, but I chose not to change my channel to the new style at this point. Some of it still made it through to the video pages, giant coloured bars telling me "This is a video". Oh well, time for me to get used to the fact websites for the mouse are out, in come the swishy-finger versions. $:-\$

Sam. · Tue 06/12/2011 22:06:24

I don't understand why people moan when websites change design, at least they're trying to stay relevant and fresh.

Or not?

Babar · Wed 07/12/2011 06:32:03

Now you've got me nostalgic and yearning.

BRING BACK ORIGINAL GOOGLE!

Be honest, visually, interface-wise, there really isn't any difference, and everything that can be done now could technically be done through the same interface (I guess they didn't have image search and such, but that'd just be an extra button).

Sam. · Wed 07/12/2011 10:05:39

I can guarantee there will be a design team who would think VERY differently Babar!

Tabata · Wed 07/12/2011 17:45:49

Quote from: Babar on Wed 07/12/2011 06:32:03
BRING BACK ORIGINAL GOOGLE!
...

(I guess they didn't have image search and such, but that'd just be an extra button).

Only a little note:
Google (still) has image search - and it works quite well

monkey0506 · Wed 07/12/2011 23:00:02

Haha Tabata, he wasn't talking about Google Images, he was talking about the bit where you upload or paste the URL of an image and Google tries to automatically determine what the image is of, and generates a search token based on those results.

Tabata · Wed 07/12/2011 23:22:10

Quote from: monkey_05_06 on Wed 07/12/2011 23:00:02
Haha Tabata, he wasn't talking about Google Images, he was talking about the bit where you upload or paste the URL of an image and Google tries to automatically determine what the image is of, and generates a search token based on those results.

... but that is exatly, what it does :

Now I am confused - but sorry if I missed it

Turtiathan · Sun 11/12/2011 01:54:56

I agree but we will eventually get used to it. That is usually what happens. The reason they change the layout all the time is so they can appear useful to the company. As a result, they get to keep their jobs.

TerranRich · Tue 20/12/2011 08:26:55

Ahh, "Google! beta"... back when sites in beta status didn't stay in beta status for FRICKIN' YEARS.

But yeah, people sometimes bitch and moan about every little layout change. YouTube's change was jarring at first, but it grew on me. I only complain about design changes when things become unintuitive, harder to use, hidden, or obscured. Or, as is the case with Facebook, less secure and more invasive.