Rant about YouTube changes

[RobertVA]

To Quote McCoy "Damn engineers love to change things."


Sure things are going to change, but YouTube and some other sites have the unfortunate habit of changing things to their detriment. Thinks like eliminating an opportunity to view a longer list of recommended videos or a longer list of new videos posted on subscribed channels. It wouldn't be so bad if there were some sort of "page 2" and or "next page" link, but they didn't even include that reasonable function.

The abbreviated list of recommended videos has had problems of listing videos I've allready seen for a while now, not even reliably showing the title in a different color the way it used to.

The "Recommended videos" link that used to lead to a grid of additional recommended videos (with the usual titles and duration labeling) has recently been changed to a grid of fifteen larger thumbnails, each only labeled by a category (no duration or title pop-ups), with an "Explore videos by vibe" link and a menu bar for some other very broad categories at the top.

Related: I see no sense in the broad left margin on Twitter with only a few inches of material at the top. It appears to be another site utilizing designers with the IT version of gardening's "black thumb".

Edited to add:

I've no problems with ads up to a minute and much appreciate the "skip ad" function (especially with mud slinging political campaign ads I've already seen a hundred times on TV) but the recent ten minute ad for a overseas tour guide company was a bit much.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Facebook too. They're forcing everyone into the "timeline" version.

And frackin' ebay. They seem to change something every damn month. I absolutely hate their new seller experience.

And....and...I'm done.

 

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ Yes, eBay is particularly guilty of this. I remember when they crippled their summary screen and made it very difficult to view sales histories and other critical information that was always a mainstay to that particular page. One good thing, however - their engineers do read their tech forums. Enough of us sellers raised such a fuss about their stupid new interface that they eventually brought back most of the useful features that had initially been removed. It took them several months to get it through their heads, but they do listen and make changes.

I haven't sold anything on eBay for a while - could you give me an idea of what has been recently changed (i.e. the new "Seller Experience" you mentioned)?

 

[Santaman]

Everything changes, gets more bloated and slow.. not only websites...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^^^ Yes, eBay is particularly guilty of this. I remember when they crippled their summary screen and made it very difficult to view sales histories and other critical information that was always a mainstay to that particular page. One good thing, however - their engineers do read their tech forums. Enough of us sellers raised such a fuss about their stupid new interface that they eventually brought back most of the useful features that had initially been removed. It took them several months to get it through their heads, but they do listen and make changes.

I haven't sold anything on eBay for a while - could you give me an idea of what has been recently changed (i.e. the new "Seller Experience" you mentioned)?

I'm not a business seller, so I don't know about that part.

You used to do everything on one page when selling an item, then go to a sort of test listing of the item, then post the item.

Now it's a 3 step tabbed thing, with the fourth step being the test listing. The process is literally very slow, like the servers aren't quite capable of handling the process.

Not to mention the shipping label part, which says it will bill you later via PayPal, then bills your credit card immediately.

Where I work, we've upgraded to newer versions of web-based apps, but are still using a 10 years old network that isn't capable of the higher rate of traffic.

Very irritating. Better testing beforehand would cure most of these problems, but they're so hot to force the newest thing on us.

 

[FreezeC77]

I haven't been on youtube that much recently, but I've noticed a marked increase in videos not loading or suddenly stop loading on facebook in the past few days.