falconhoof
Member
Ok, I wasn't going mad. The mini player button has gone and Youtube did make everything giant.
Miniplayer can still be accessed by pressing the i key.
YouTube is Getting Worse
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Ok, I wasn't going mad. The mini player button has gone and Youtube did make everything giant.
Miniplayer can still be accessed by pressing the i key.
Oblivion78
Member
Noticed that the ui for YouTube video player's font suddenly increased for no reason. Looks ugly
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
There's a Firefox extension that automatically plays all YouTube videos in the highest resolution possible: YouTube High Definition.
falconhoof
Member
falconhoof
Member
Haven't watched this one yet.
falconhoof
Member
Some interesting comments on that video.
People saying that their recommended feed is showing the same videos over and over. Ones they don't want to watch and historically would have just disappeared after a few cycles. I've certainly noticed this. The recommended tab seems to go through trends. Sometimes it throws bangers at you that you instantly click on the top view and watch. Other times it feels like you spend ages scrolling for ages until something catches your eye, and this is where we're at now.
Another statement I saw was about being recommended weird videos. Foreign language like Chinese or Filipino videos that are super low quality stuff with 1-50 views, often family vlogs.
I've noticed that I can scroll through recommended and it's just full of uninteresting junk, old shit, really low view count slop, and stuff I've already watched, then after an age of scrolling you see something that's super interesting from a creator you've watched a lot, wondering why this wasn't at the top of the pile.
People saying that their recommended feed is showing the same videos over and over. Ones they don't want to watch and historically would have just disappeared after a few cycles. I've certainly noticed this. The recommended tab seems to go through trends. Sometimes it throws bangers at you that you instantly click on the top view and watch. Other times it feels like you spend ages scrolling for ages until something catches your eye, and this is where we're at now.
Another statement I saw was about being recommended weird videos. Foreign language like Chinese or Filipino videos that are super low quality stuff with 1-50 views, often family vlogs.
I've noticed that I can scroll through recommended and it's just full of uninteresting junk, old shit, really low view count slop, and stuff I've already watched, then after an age of scrolling you see something that's super interesting from a creator you've watched a lot, wondering why this wasn't at the top of the pile.
user friendly
Member
Noticing less ads lately. On PS5 at least.
Nintendo's Witch
Member
Everything tech related is getting worse.
Goalus
Member
I suggest you switch to Firefox.
uBlock will work flawlessly then.
Shadow1414
Neo Member
Adblock is God's gift to Earth. It makes the internet less rotting to the brain (there is only so much that one god-like being can do alone, however…).
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
It has some points, but still not everything is said
The whole shebang of content is broken from the start, and the companies are trying to fix by having more problems
Journalism sites since ever have ads, and because people uses adblocks, they didn't get that much revenue. How to fix? Even more ads to compensate the hole. This started a trend, since some people saw the ads, but others not, the ones that see needs to pay those that don't
Twitch did an "botblock" and views dropped a lot for everyone - even some streamers that didn't used, users used without their knowledge. For the users that don't pay, ads are all over the place, and without any default
Youtube started having ads that are simple and not much harm. Just some pop-in during the video, kinda transparent, in the bottom, and having an X to close... Then the ad was at the end of the video, which was fine, since one could just exit if wasn't a playlist or whatever. Then became also at the start, then in the middle, and now it's by the user or Google of a mix of both. For the creators, rules are changing all the time, and it's not like a change per year or so, in the same month changes can be see more than one time. Also, the company itself is a nightmare, and profit is kind of a recent thing for them, so it's weird
I guess the biggest problem is that everyone is too comfortable with what we have. No one even looks for another video content website instead of YouTube. Live streaming is Twitch. Social media is Instagram or X (I even wrote "Twitter"... this new name is stupid as fuck). We need better competitors in those areas
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Apps like YouTube are silly to me. How many changes to ToS, ad placement, and UI upgrades before you end up with something similar to what you were trying to move away from in the first place?
All I ever hear about is Google's 563456th idea about kneecapping their user numbers, yet the only change I ever see is the Like icon becoming more or less rigid and the font getting a size larger or smaller.
I miss the good old days when you could stream an entire album off of YouTube with zero ads. Same way I miss googling something and getting actual websites back in the results, as opposed to linking me to the nearest content aggregator like X.
We're well into the diminishing returns cycle of technological development. Twenty years ago, shit was just advanced enough to make it feel like you were right on the cusp of Jetson era tech, while still being enough of a novelty that every single solitary aspect could avoid gross over regulation. Feels like the goldilocks zone for media.
All I ever hear about is Google's 563456th idea about kneecapping their user numbers, yet the only change I ever see is the Like icon becoming more or less rigid and the font getting a size larger or smaller.
I miss the good old days when you could stream an entire album off of YouTube with zero ads. Same way I miss googling something and getting actual websites back in the results, as opposed to linking me to the nearest content aggregator like X.
We're well into the diminishing returns cycle of technological development. Twenty years ago, shit was just advanced enough to make it feel like you were right on the cusp of Jetson era tech, while still being enough of a novelty that every single solitary aspect could avoid gross over regulation. Feels like the goldilocks zone for media.
falconhoof
Member
EDIT: This is a new video from Josh in response to Spiffs one
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YouTube once again making their already terrible UI... even worse.
My UI is literally:
Row 1: 2 Videos
Row 2: 5 Shorts
Row 3: 2 Videos
Row 4: YouTube Games
Row 5: 3 Videos
Row 6: 5 Shorts
Row 7: Did you like watching this video?
Row 8: Top News
Then from here, it shows me recommended videos constantly.
It makes it worse when you realize that it shows 1 and a half rows at a time because all the previews are stupidly huge.
My UI is literally:
Row 1: 2 Videos
Row 2: 5 Shorts
Row 3: 2 Videos
Row 4: YouTube Games
Row 5: 3 Videos
Row 6: 5 Shorts
Row 7: Did you like watching this video?
Row 8: Top News
Then from here, it shows me recommended videos constantly.
It makes it worse when you realize that it shows 1 and a half rows at a time because all the previews are stupidly huge.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
GAF's Resident Saturn Omnibus
I had no idea where to post this, so I decided to put in this YouTube thread.
I made a music video for my latest art/photo ebook, Trumpocalypse. If you've ever seen videos of people reading through art books or magazines, it's the very same thing. This video goes through the digital ebook edition of my book, with music from the 1994 CD Minnesota Modern Rock: Volume 1. It's a compilation of the indie rock scene in Minneapolis at the time, always has been a personal favorite. I synced up the songs to each of the "chapters" in the book, and by the grace of Providence, it ends perfectly in time to Zuzu's Petal's "Do Not."
I have 36 books available on Amazon Kindle, and I intend to create YouTube videos for all my artbooks. I don't know what to do about music, because I wish to avoid the wrath of our evil corporate overlords, but so much of the "royalty free" music out there is just dreadful. Ugh, painfully bad.
Please check this out and give it a thumbs-up and leave some kind words in the comments. I would greatly appreciate that. Thank you very much!
PS: If you are an artist, photographer, zine publisher or comics creator, you should be making videos like this one. It's a great way to promote your work and build your audience. Oh, and if you don't know what a "music video" is, ask your parents.