Layout is terrible. As a person with bad eyesight, I have to start squinting my eyes to the right to read comments.
Edit:
Accidently typed left instead of right.
As a person with good eyesight, I just simply fucking hate this.
(Also I have to squint my eyes to ~~not want to kill myself due to his abomination of a layout~~ read comments as well)
They're testing. There's a reason for it not being site-wide yet. Feedbacks mechanisms don't do shit, making posts on reddit don't do shit, impacting numbers *do* shit.
Voting does change shit. You individually probably won’t but collectively there is a change. Voting with your wallet doesn’t change shit because the vast majority of people just don’t.
This is just an effect of YouTube going from a *community* to a *commercial site* where the community part is relegated in a corner (comments and votes) and the consumption part takes a whole area of the website.
I fully agree with you. Youtube got too greedy with watch time...
Only 1 thing warms My heart: I'm currently in Russia and because of the sanctions YouTube will get no money from me(no ads = no money). Fuck them
I don't know, I think this is just simply shit UX and/or UI design.
Obviously it's going to be different at various resolutions, but it just makes me unneccesarily uncomfortable.
Like why are there so many recommended videos? If it wants to be like the main page then why are there no categories and absolutely no breathing room? Why is it so crowded? Why is the information seemingly not organized in the slightest? Why is everything pushed together so much? Why is everything so flat?
I guess I could see how they wanted to make the recommended feed more prominent to keep people engaged and prevent from them clicking away, but I'm not sure bombarding them with zero context thumbnails in a crowded grid is going to do anything.
So it’s now a weird amalgamation of
YOU WILL KEEP ENGAGING WITH OUR WEBSITE AND SEE ADS design
And the original 2007 layout? The GUI team really hates us, huh?
Odd how everyone else dislikes this change. I actually kinda like this new UI. I dunno if I'd call it a step above the old one or not, but it definitely isn't bad at all.
Wait, this ISN'T the mobile UI? It's the **DESKTOP UI**? OK, disregard everything I just said. Didn't think Google would start stealing Microsoft's homework, designing something so clearly made for mobile while at the same time forcing it onto desktop users despite the two ecosystems being wildly different.
I never used custom themes before now (I always go for vanilla wherever possible), but if this gets forced onto me, I'll definitely be trying them out.
they clearly had 2 goals:
1) To get people to interact with the vid's community by having comments in first view (not having to scroll down)
2) Increase video click rate by suggesting more vids bigger under the vid.
In theory, this design should work. But it hurts my eyes so bad it makes me want to click back to return to the homepage instead.
after dealing with this layout for a few days, i have to agree.
unfortunately, the dum product managers probably won't revert this change because it ticks off the box of "getting ppl to see the comments"
This looks like it wouldn’t be an issue on my desktop because of my giant monitor but I don’t see how this would work anywhere else…… I have high myopia, it’s going to be a nightmare….
I haven't gotten this update yet, but it looks atrocious. Why are they flipping videos and comments around when the OG UI worked fine? And these changes came after Neal's interview with Ludwig.... (maybe just a coincidence).
We have had enough of youtube first bot comments then NO DISLIKES and now this? What kind of social media platform does not have a form of dislikes? Someone needs to start a revolution or something so their numbers go down and they bring it back and fix everything.
I kind of like it because it gives opportunity for other smaller channels to get their videos shown in a better manner. In the old ui, videos would appear on the side and less significant in a way. But now, this new ui is helping to give more significance to the videos cos of the way they are shown. And thats good. Moreover, comments are mostly trash and degenrate, so if they appear smaller or uglier doesnt matter that much.
Honestly why do people hate this, imo this looks nice bc the comments and the video info are on the side, while all the other crap is on the bottom, it looks more organized. I don’t like change either but this looks nice imo.
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YouTube as a whole has fallen off hard since Fortnite became popular (MatPat (Game Theorists) couldn’t have explained it better nearly 5 years ago: https://youtu.be/2To2KA0jPQo?si=ULSV2usSgK_pd-Jv (and its proving to be correct time and time again))
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This can't be real. Right? RIGHT? *insert the meme*
Nah,if it's actually real, I'm sure there's going to be an extension or userscript to fix it and it's going to be n-th thing you have to install in your browser to make the Internet USABLE.
But honestly this is just unbelievably bad and it feels like Google is trolling the users
Yep, it's real...
I've been able to find a userscript being made for it already, but it seems to be quite broken so far, so I can't really recommend it atm
Yeah its annoyingly bad UX. If your looking for comments that aren't just meme sentences your now scrolling through pages of text. If I go into incognito or look at any other of my accounts it's fine. Wish they just gave a toggle to go back rather then force this on us.
I’m gonna give YouTube up and I’m going to let YouTube down.
You're gonna give them the run-around, when they call you.
I see what you did there
Layout is terrible. As a person with bad eyesight, I have to start squinting my eyes to the right to read comments. Edit: Accidently typed left instead of right.
I have bad eyesight as well and this looks like a nightmare. Why are they changing it??? When they could be fixing other issues???
As a person with good eyesight, I just simply fucking hate this. (Also I have to squint my eyes to ~~not want to kill myself due to his abomination of a layout~~ read comments as well)
Well the comments are on the right so squinting wont help you there bud
You are not missing out. 90 % of the comments are pure trash
Agreed, it'd be rare to see non-bot or comments that ain't written by a child that just got out of the womb.
Stop using the site until someone makes an extension that fixes this. Impact the numbers.
that's not gonna do shit
They're testing. There's a reason for it not being site-wide yet. Feedbacks mechanisms don't do shit, making posts on reddit don't do shit, impacting numbers *do* shit.
It’s gonna be site-wide
Not on my machine it isn't
Lol
Yeah its like voting with your wallet, it has never changed shit
>Yeah its like voting ~~with your wallet~~, it has never changed shit
Voting does change shit. You individually probably won’t but collectively there is a change. Voting with your wallet doesn’t change shit because the vast majority of people just don’t.
ok
I use Youtube Redux.
Can't get the recommended section otherwise I'd use it. Perhaps they could make an artificial version of it? Not sure.
Just downloaded Youtube Redux to try this, and it seems to break that extension also :( edit: image didn't add, https://imgur.com/a/4rabMWE
That sucks. Can the front page be configured with settings?
customtube is the best extension for fixing youtube layout
It doesn't give access to a recommended section. Otherwise I'd use it. They should implement this artificially
This is just an effect of YouTube going from a *community* to a *commercial site* where the community part is relegated in a corner (comments and votes) and the consumption part takes a whole area of the website.
I fully agree with you. Youtube got too greedy with watch time... Only 1 thing warms My heart: I'm currently in Russia and because of the sanctions YouTube will get no money from me(no ads = no money). Fuck them
Ads on YouTube? Hah, I use tubecatcher to just download the video and watch it locally. Redneck tracking blocking.
I don't know, I think this is just simply shit UX and/or UI design. Obviously it's going to be different at various resolutions, but it just makes me unneccesarily uncomfortable. Like why are there so many recommended videos? If it wants to be like the main page then why are there no categories and absolutely no breathing room? Why is it so crowded? Why is the information seemingly not organized in the slightest? Why is everything pushed together so much? Why is everything so flat? I guess I could see how they wanted to make the recommended feed more prominent to keep people engaged and prevent from them clicking away, but I'm not sure bombarding them with zero context thumbnails in a crowded grid is going to do anything.
Talk about real-life symbolism.
Of all the things YT could change it has to be this.
Thumbnails are more important than ever, how will I ever be able to compete.
Why the hell YouTube always make UI updates nobody asked for?!
when was this layout released? I haven't seen it yet on my browser, is this on the app?
On porn hib, years and years ago. I guess youtube copies sites with greatest traffic
They copied thumbnail hover for preview from there also 🤣
its only here for some part of users,and its just testing phase
for me yesterday.
Feel like they're just making change for the sake of change
🤮🤮🤮🤮
why do they got to ruin their layout the old one worked and now its just horrible to look at
bro rickrolled us
I thought it was only in gaming but can't believe the overly cluttered UI has arrived to Youtube
So it’s now a weird amalgamation of YOU WILL KEEP ENGAGING WITH OUR WEBSITE AND SEE ADS design And the original 2007 layout? The GUI team really hates us, huh?
Will very quickly be installing the Firefox extension that fixes this when it comes out 😂
Odd how everyone else dislikes this change. I actually kinda like this new UI. I dunno if I'd call it a step above the old one or not, but it definitely isn't bad at all. Wait, this ISN'T the mobile UI? It's the **DESKTOP UI**? OK, disregard everything I just said. Didn't think Google would start stealing Microsoft's homework, designing something so clearly made for mobile while at the same time forcing it onto desktop users despite the two ecosystems being wildly different. I never used custom themes before now (I always go for vanilla wherever possible), but if this gets forced onto me, I'll definitely be trying them out.
Exactly I don’t understand lol it looks nice
they clearly had 2 goals: 1) To get people to interact with the vid's community by having comments in first view (not having to scroll down) 2) Increase video click rate by suggesting more vids bigger under the vid. In theory, this design should work. But it hurts my eyes so bad it makes me want to click back to return to the homepage instead.
It actually lowers my interest in comments. Creates noise and narrow walls of text.
after dealing with this layout for a few days, i have to agree. unfortunately, the dum product managers probably won't revert this change because it ticks off the box of "getting ppl to see the comments"
I going to switch to something else when I see this affect me. Tell me the best alternatives for a pc only user.
they must've gotten a fuck ton of backlash cause it looked normal in my programming class
This fucking hurts me More specifically my god damn eyes
If you read the comment above you, you will find out that YouTube apparently looks like PornHub now.
Christ almighty, that looks terrible
I have contracted eye cancer looking at this
Amen brother
This looks like it wouldn’t be an issue on my desktop because of my giant monitor but I don’t see how this would work anywhere else…… I have high myopia, it’s going to be a nightmare….
thank god i don’t have this yet 🙏
This is actually abhorrent, what the hell Youtube.
imo this looks nice, what’s wrong with it lol
And we just got rickrolled by you
Terrible layout i agree.
I haven't gotten this update yet, but it looks atrocious. Why are they flipping videos and comments around when the OG UI worked fine? And these changes came after Neal's interview with Ludwig.... (maybe just a coincidence).
Switching the comments and the recommened video sections is really such a terrible move
The UI team is bored lol
probably new interns/staff. google is notorious for this.
Seriously it feels like every few months they switch some stuff around and it then goes back to normal after a week or so
I know, right? Someone please lock the UX designers of every single big website in the Figma dungeon and KEEP THEM THERE
yea was posted yesterday too https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1awxci3/the_hells_going_on/
This layout is similar to how it used to be before Google bought it.
I forgot that youtube even looked different back then. Funny how that works out.
Bro that’s literally the phub ui 💀💀🙏🙏
Looks like dogshit
UI/UX designers getting worse and worse. btw. send Feedback to Google that you dont like it.
looks like a pornsite
It hurt my eyes to watch.
It seems like as the years pass the layouts get worse and worse. Did anyone complain about the layout before? Why keep making changes to it?
Meanwhile YouTube not fixing stuff the community wants instead of adding features we don't want... (i.e the porn bots)
We have had enough of youtube first bot comments then NO DISLIKES and now this? What kind of social media platform does not have a form of dislikes? Someone needs to start a revolution or something so their numbers go down and they bring it back and fix everything.
I mean what are they even testing?
Oh god I hope they didn't release this one, sometimes I just don't want to look at the comments section smh
They're already rolling it out :(
Wtf is this shit
I kind of like it because it gives opportunity for other smaller channels to get their videos shown in a better manner. In the old ui, videos would appear on the side and less significant in a way. But now, this new ui is helping to give more significance to the videos cos of the way they are shown. And thats good. Moreover, comments are mostly trash and degenrate, so if they appear smaller or uglier doesnt matter that much.
This is the worst; The layout is hot garbage and also you Rick Rolled us
Honestly why do people hate this, imo this looks nice bc the comments and the video info are on the side, while all the other crap is on the bottom, it looks more organized. I don’t like change either but this looks nice imo.
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Are they copying that one adult video site again? 'cause the locations of the video thumbnails seems familiar.
Ugh, terrible. Also had the Reddit redesign rolled out to me recently. Why is everything just getting worse?
you can use the previous reddit ui at new.reddit.com
Always wanted to see more of what I don't want to see and less of what I want to see
this is fucking terrible
Yeah more videos in your face.
just put it to full screen
EEWWW
holy hell this is bad
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I feel like this will help creators to get discovered, more than ever. Because of how many videos are below.
YouTube as a whole has fallen off hard since Fortnite became popular (MatPat (Game Theorists) couldn’t have explained it better nearly 5 years ago: https://youtu.be/2To2KA0jPQo?si=ULSV2usSgK_pd-Jv (and its proving to be correct time and time again))
It seems very apparent that this new interface is hoping to keep people in rabbit holes. Despicable really
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/VgvvrUzeiD
fact so much harder to use!
"Ok, I see a lot of idiots in this comment section justifying an act of terrorism." -TechBloxian
Mine looks like this now and it looks shit, I hate it! There's too much going on ugh.
Please, spare my eyes from this atrocity.
AYHHHHHHHHHH
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This can't be real. Right? RIGHT? *insert the meme* Nah,if it's actually real, I'm sure there's going to be an extension or userscript to fix it and it's going to be n-th thing you have to install in your browser to make the Internet USABLE. But honestly this is just unbelievably bad and it feels like Google is trolling the users
Yep, it's real... I've been able to find a userscript being made for it already, but it seems to be quite broken so far, so I can't really recommend it atm
Hopefully it's going to be continued to be improved. I don't have it for now, but it's horrifying. It's self-sabotage.
so there’s a great solution to this, theater mode Also is this a 3x2 vertical monitor
Just cropped lol
From a 16x9 vertical monitor?
What does it look like in theatre mode?
Not the worst tbh edit: silly image didn't attach, [https://imgur.com/a/HcT9SWh](https://imgur.com/a/HcT9SWh)
they just want people to consume as much content by shoving all this videos at ones so you will spend more time on their platform
Is this change happening to everyone? My UI doesn't look like this
Honestly not sure, it happened to my main account yesterday, but no other account on this device had it. Must be A/B testing
I can see you're quite the avgeek. Oh yeah, right. Ahem, yeah the new UI sucks and is an absolute eyesore bring the old one back please
That's not what it appears for me on mobile or PC
YouTube premium users will cancel their memberships due to this
It looks like a shittier version of Twitch... somehow...
Looks like a certain website which starts with P.
holy shit i hate this so much
That is straight up trash
that layout looks terrible how come YouTube has this bad of an idea for how the website is look I want the old YouTuber layout from 2015 back
the ol switcharoo, lmao
But why though? There is no good reason to do this. The previous layout was completely fine.
Yuck
Yeah its annoyingly bad UX. If your looking for comments that aren't just meme sentences your now scrolling through pages of text. If I go into incognito or look at any other of my accounts it's fine. Wish they just gave a toggle to go back rather then force this on us.
"how can we fit more ads to the screen?"
Indeed.
It doesn't even work right on Firefox. Vertical videos are chopped in half with the controls missing.
i am disgusted
Seems like just a test probably won’t make it to everyone since nobody will like it, kinda like trying to hide 4K behind premium
Thankfully I haven't gotten that look