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YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design
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Youtube has had multiple redesigns over its lifespan, and I'll bet you probably do prefer the last one over their original 2005 UI.
I want the snake game on the loading screen back :(
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.
Truth. Shorts can get fucked
I'd rather they just set up shorts as a separate section and make it easily toggleable. Including those in search is fine... but the search should make it easy to switch back and forth between including those results along with regular content, only shorts, or only regular videos. Especially on desktop where you have the room for a more complex UI.
Short form content has a place, and I'd rather watch that shit on YouTube where I already have an account instead of having to go to Tik Tok or Instagram and deal with China or Facebook the times I do want to doom scroll it. There are some great short form only creators.
Block the shorts, I've not seen one in over 6 months now.
You can't block the shorts, you can only tell them you are not intrested and they will come right back. As soon as I see them in my feed I always immediately click the 3 dot menu and not interested button and it'll tell me it'll suggest Shorts less frequently but I'll see it again within a day or so if not again later in the same session of watching stuff. They are 100% shoving it down peoples throats and do not listen to user feedback on this. Hell I just went and checked my review in the app store from 2023 and I was complaining about the shorts reapearing immediately back then with no way of blocking them along with the app wanting to sign into any tv on the network that has the YouTube tv app. I literally can't use the mobile app between shorts being shoved into my face and the app wanting to connect to someone elses tv ever time you open the app.