Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoEh, 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 3 weeks ago
Imagine if they actually brought back “options” and let you choose between changes rather than force them on you.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
AugustWest@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Not really. At least if you plan to have it customizable in the first place.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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)