Yea, seems like a fun and quirky feature, but unfortunately I don’t think there’s anything big tech companies can do at this point to turn things around with public opinion given how utterly egregious their other sins have been.
Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour*
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Holy crap, the amount of hate in here, and no actual description of what it does. It’s essentially your normal home feed, but only the videos with thumbnails of the selected color. It’s also way over at the right of the home feed filters, so it isn’t like it’s being shoved down your throats.
Jknaraa@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 3 months ago
Fun quirky features are things you make when you have a good product.
These types of features added to things with genuine ongoing problems will always piss off users.
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Most people love YouTube, I know it doesn’t feel like it when you’re inside the Lemmy bubble but the big tech companies are far more popular than anything we like
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 months ago
I love the videos on it, and fist off I liked the site too, but they have been enshittifying it pretty hard lately
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 3 months ago
For me it was embedded in my feed, not in some remote setting
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, it shows up there once, then is buried to the right of the filters afterwards.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Doesn’t stop it from being a dumb, pointless feature.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why bother caring? Doesn’t make a difference to me.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I care because it shows YouTube is more interested in wasting resources on dumb, pointless features rather than fixing various problems that have been plaguing content creators over the years
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The resources used to implement this aren’t the same as the ones that would be used to address some of the other issues, as the ones I know of are more social/legal ones.
I bet this was mostly done by a single coder who showed it off and management thought it was a fun thing so added it to the main site.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 months ago
At this point I feel like it’s intentional, and either way, am not surprised. Unlike a lot of other commentors here, I don’t see the point in wasting mental power on worrying about it.