Judging from screenshots in this article, it doesn’t seem to loose or gain any functionality: all of the same controls are present.
With this in mind.
Who cares!? It’s neither good nor bad. It’s like the thing with playback line color. Yes, it’s different, no, I didn’t notice until some pointed it out, no, I couldn’t care less.It looks exactly the same just a little different skin
That’s always the case.
I mean, they could stop messing with things that aren’t broken for once…
Eh, it’s a fine line tbh. Not that I enjoy defending Google.
You get both “this UI hasn’t changed in a decade” and “this UI is perfect never change it” in relatively equal amounts. The rest honestly don’t care either way.
Imagine if they actually brought back “options” and let you choose between changes rather than force them on you.
That would turn into spaghetti code and unmaintainable tech debt really fast. Now every time you make a change you have to make sure it doesn’t break previous stylesheets, or you need to run different versions of the same codebase for each stylesheet that will need updating for security vulnerabilities and stakeholder whims.
Not really. At least if you plan to have it customizable in the first place.
Then it becomes harder to change when you want to add in new features still. There needs to be a fine balance between giving options and having a clean single-option code, and offering 2 different video players is not it (it sounds like some shortcuts got broken so it’s not just a CSS that got applied)
You are right. I forgot we were talking about a web front end, and I was think of an application. I take it back.
I am just so used to watching you tube with applications on desktop and mobile I forgot we were talking about you tubes new web front end.
Because the seek bar overlaps the video as it is playing, and because the drag button is huge whenever you mouseover it, it is much harder to locate chapter marker visually.
Change for the sake of change is not good.
I’m sure someone will release an addon or some custom CSS to fix it.
Which shouldn’t be needed
It’s already needed for the current UI. ImproveYoutube is a godsend.
new coke problems
Oh god…I still don’t understand how coke came out of that fiasco ahead of pepsi. Hell, I thought R.C. Cola would lap them.
The removal of the black gradient at the bottom is a plus.
Putting the controls in their own grey capsules so they still standout is a plus.
The moving of the volume button to the right is a negative.
I dont like change just for changes sake, but in fairness some of this is a good idea and a welcome design shift. I just hopebthey move the volume button back as having on the left with the main controls is pretty widespread and common design.
A rare, levelheaded take.
The changes are fine. Nothing earth shattering, nothing wildly or fundamentally broken, just an visual update to better fit with Google’s new material design language.
The articles mentions that scroll and the arrow keys no longer adjust volume. Nothing could be earth shattering because it’s video streaming software, but it does seem to come with some functionality loss at this stage.
I only think they should have moved the controls outside of the video, at least on desktop
It’s been a few years sine youtube stopped making changes designed for desktop. These days they work with a “Made for tablet, compatible for desktop” mindset.
On top od that it takes more vertical space so more % of the video is covered by controls that are not that transparent so the whole control block is covering it in full comparing to previous where only the actual icons and text did cover the video with the gradient to help make it visible if video is the same color.
But one way or another I avoid yt so it doesnt really affect me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiIBcUD1VY This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to revert a new, undesirable layout to a previous version. The instructions are presented in a sequential manner, utilizing links provided in the video description to install necessary components and configure settings.
- Step 1-4: Clicking on links provided in the description to install required elements (likely browser extensions or related software).
- Step 5: Another click on a link in the description to install an additional component.
- Step 6: Accessing the installed extension’s settings and applying a filter provided by the creator (presumably to address a specific visual issue).
- Refresh: Refreshing the webpage to apply the changes.
- Issue: The fix may remove access to the sidebar if used, a sacrifice the user must make.
use the transcriptly to get this video transcript and summary.
Oh so is that why I sometimes have to wait for a minute now before I can play a video?
I don’t think yt-dlp+mpv changed much…
That’s a lot of effort when you can just freetube.
Everyone has their preferred way, innit.
It look sexy.
I think so too, and we are entitled to our opinion.
The heck is this title?
YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design
Meanwhile, the article itself just cites a few tiny aesthetic changes and like four random Reddit comments. Doesn’t seem like they even tried it themself… That’s justifications for 460 upvotes?
The adverts on youtube have become so unbearable so no amount of UI change will convince me to use it as intended. If there’s a long video I want to watch, I download the video first and watch it using VLC
My ad blocker stops all the ads except for the sponsorships that are in the video… Y’all watching YouTube without blockers?
It’s more difficult to block ads if you’re casting to a television so downloading is better for my use case
No it’s not; install an APK of SmartTube beta
Use smart tube for TV
Try adding SponsorBlock.
Sponsorblock usually helps with that.
Chrome user? No ad blocker?
What a great day to be a grayjay user lol
Just like they used to combat rw disinformation
Youtube: …
Everyone else: …
Youtube: LETS FUCK SHIT UP!!!
It’s like the same but with a background color that has rounded corners.
