Poll: New Youtube Layout - Your Thoughts

[an annoyed writer]

Yay. Another update, another shitty set of design decisions, and another near-unanimous calling of hatred towards the site's new changes. Now don't get me wrong: I like change when it improves something, and streamlines it. Unfortunately this update has done neither. Hey guys, remember back in '09 where we didn't have to click a million buttons to see our subscriptions? Those were the days. And that five-star rating system, which back then was as iconic as the youtube logo itself. Of course, that changed when they said "Alright, you see that facebook website? Lets be that, but with videos!" and since then they've been making themselves into a piss-poor facebook clone. This is just the latest step towards gererification.

 

[UniversalRonin]

It just looks like it's being optimised for touch screen interfaces and trying to make everything more integrated. Honestly I'm not really bothered either way.

 

[zehydra]

The one main thing I dislike is the unnecessary user icon by each post. All it means is there's going to be a ton of little "blank profile" images everywhere

 

[Brandon Logan]

http://youtu.be/DZR1gSvnOI0
That about sums up my thoughts.

Well you kind of beat me to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdDMrncAy4U

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

The big black box right beside the video is distracting. Me no like.

 

[Longstreet]

It is not a bad change per se, i just cant wrap my head around 1 key feature of this new design.

Why o why is HALF (FIFTY per cent) of the page UNUSED / white?
Everything is just crammed on the left side of the page and the right is completely useless.

WHY?

 

[AnarchistFish]

It looks fine to me

Really why does everyone go full retard whenever a site changes its layout? Was the same with this site. All it takes is some getting used to

 

[Scarim Coral]

No I hate it-

Too much on the left side especially the video, wth? I watch my video at the center since I'm sitting at the center of the screen!

Why did they get rid of "Sort by- Relevance, Upload Date, View Count and Rating" for the search filter? I want to see my search using the the "Upload date" sometimes but now they are too specific with it since it's not the same thing ("the old "Upload date display them in order of when it was updateed however using "Upload- This week" does not display them in order)!

 

[WanderingFool]

So wait... I cant filter it so only uploads from my subscriptions show?

Time for Hyperbole!

Im going to grab a shotgun, go to where the guys that run Youtube live, and blow their fucking kneecaps off till they fix it to the way it was. Than, Im going to kill one as a warning to the other, to NEVER CHANGE THE LAYOUT AGAIN!

Feel slightly better with that...

*Edit*

Okay, having looked at it, I found that there is a little button that shows up when you hover your mouse over a subscriber video on the main page, that lets you set it so you only get uploads from them. Im glad... but now Im getting a bunch of recommendations for videos Ive watched once, and never again...

So my previous hyperbole still stands...

 

[Hazy992]

You know what else is awesome? I'm really glad you no longer have that tab above a person's video that lets you browse other videos released before and after the one you're watching. I mean why the heck would I want to be able to quickly watch a person's previous or next videos? That's just silly! -_-

Google

wat r u doin

Google

STAHP

 

[wottabout]

Now I have to remember to go to youtube.com/feed/subscriptions/u instead of youtube.com. All the stuff I want, with a longer URL! Great.

And augh, I really liked being able to click the thing to see a person's other uploads! It didn't always work, but when it worked it was awesome!

And what is this? Sort by views/rating/etc is gone? WHYYYYYYYYYYY WOULD YOU DOOOOOOOO THAAAAAAAT.

 

[Major_Tom]

I can go die in a fire. It also breaks ExtendTube, which makes YouTube basically worthless.

 

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

The only thing that really irked me was how much of a pain getting to subscription uploads is now compared to how it was before, i.e. NOT! Other than that I'm fairly ambivalent and I actually kinda like the 'more from your subscriptions' tab at the side.

 

[KiloFox]

it's a piece of shit. plain and simple. the old one worked. it had suggested videos which were only occasionally relevant to my interests (thanks to watching related videos A LOT) the suggested channels on the BOTTOM of the left side, and my upload notifications in the centre. it WORKED.

this new one took all that good stuff, and moved it around and shat all over it until it was unrecognizable.

i swear if YT didn't have the userbase and the videobase monopoly it does, like if another video site cropped up that had all the same videos and all the same users, NOBODY WOULD VISIT YOUTUBE EVER AGAIN.

 

[antidonkey]

Don't like but I'm sure I'll get used to. I didn't care for last change either but eventually accepted it as the norm. The thing that got me with this latest change was that it happened between videos so I though youtube was broken.

 

[Zipa]

Its bloody awful, each time they change it they make it worse. Its so much harder to navigate to your subscriptions because its too busy trying to tell you what to watch and shove it down your throat. That or its too busy telling you that someone liked and/or Favorited a video which I couldn't really give a shit about.
They should go back to the 2009 layout.

 

[Buck Wilde]

Don't like the new layout at all. Don't know why there's so much wasted space and why the home page takes me to suggested videos, the title being moved I'm neutral about though and the playlist thing as well (never really used playlists anyways). The main problem is with the home page though not being my subscriptions. I don't upload anything, the only reason I made an account was so that I could subscribe to people and keep track of what they had uploaded instead of not being signed in and having to search for them or bookmark their page or something. Its not terrible having to make two clicks to get to those videos but the old layout was better with recommended videos on the side and subscriptions front and center. Also the video centering, I personally don't mind but don't think it makes sense for them to not be centered.

 

[AlwaysPractical]

6 words: YouTube suggestion in the main feed.

That is a deadly sin.

Also, my feed currently lists posts made with these dates in this order:
40 minutes ago
5 days ago
4 days ago
10 hours ago
1 day ago
11 hours ago
22 hours ago
3 days ago
1 week ago
22 hours ago

This thing is compiled by a machine!!!! How do you mess up dates? HOW? IT'S A MACHINE! IT HANDLES NUMBERS CHRONOLOGICALLY!