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.
Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s always the case.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I’m sure someone will release an addon or some custom CSS to fix it.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Which shouldn’t be needed
Klear@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
It’s already needed for the current UI. ImproveYoutube is a godsend.
ilmagico@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, they could stop messing with things that aren’t broken for once…
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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.
NRay7882@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Imagine if they actually brought back “options” and let you choose between changes rather than force them on you.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.