I don’t think it looks terrible, but it does look like windows media player from 20 years ago.
YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design
Submitted 15 hours ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-new-video-player-ui-test-web-3547254/
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SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 30 minutes ago
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
In their defense, I’m not sure I have ever seen a major UI redesign of some piece of software that the users of that software actually liked, at least at first. Inertia and muscle memory are powerful things.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Hence the reason why you make small gradual improvements over a long time. YT has been around a long time, and Google should know better.
Well the old Google development company would know better, the new Google advertising agency doesn’t give a shit
Halosheep@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
People literally always hate changes to ui. It’s to the point that this article could have been written and just archived somewhere to pull out whenever something changes.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
ugh, this is so much worse. takes up more space, is more distracting.
I want to be able to skip around in videos and not have the screen covered by ugly pill buttons
victorz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
At least it’s not covered by a dark shade now. 👍 I’m initially for this change. Good to see an iteration. Let’s see how it goes.
jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 minutes ago
Yeah. It also looks like the buttons might light up on hover, but they already basically do that so that’s only a very small plus. I too remember being annoyed about not seeing content behind the shade properly.
endlessraining@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
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
fishy@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
My ad blocker stops all the ads except for the sponsorships that are in the video… Y’all watching YouTube without blockers?
endlessraining@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
It’s more difficult to block ads if you’re casting to a television so downloading is better for my use case
victorz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Chrome user? No ad blocker?
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
mke@programming.dev 4 hours ago
The articles mentions that scroll and the arrow keys no longer adjust volume. Nothing could be earth shattering because it’s software, but it does seem to come with some functionality loss at this stage.
kolorafa@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.
Scrollone@feddit.it 9 hours ago
I only think they should have moved the controls outside of the video, at least on desktop
raltoid@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s been a few years sine youtube stopped making changes designed for desktop. These days it’s they work with a “Made for tablet, compatible for desktop” mindset.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I don’t think it’s too bad. I can imagine those with some slight visual impairments it might’ve been awkward to see the buttons some times without a background for them
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
YouTube can do whatever they want, you think that give a damn about the people? Noooopppppeeeee
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
And you think people will do anything more than just bitch about it? Noooopppppeeeee
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
With recent events, yeeeeeeep. More and more people are protesting with their wallets. Either google getting told to break off companies and/or sell them (e.g. Chrome), they’re going to make some crazy moves for your dollar and that will trigger the peak of the outcry and you’ll see it happen. It’s not a noppppe or yepppp situation, it’s “when”. Better now than later.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Viewers can’t do shit but watch where the creators are. Up to creators to organize. I see tubers bitching about payment and copyright. Can cry me a river, if they only offer videos on a single platform.
I was perfectly fine with YouTube before monetization.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s always the case.
ilmagico@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I mean, they could stop messing with things that aren’t broken for once…
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours 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.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
I’m sure someone will release an addon or some custom CSS to fix it.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
the new design looks like it came from ten years ago
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
I’m not defending google here, but I’m sure a decent chunk of the complaints are just bitching because “change bad!”
I haven’t seen the change yet and I’m sure there are legitimate complaints as well, but us online folk tend to detest even the smallest changes and go a bit overboard in our complaining sometimes.
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
“you can no longer hover on the volume slider and scroll or even use the up/down keys to adjust the audio”
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
That, for sure, is one of the most garbage changes imaginable.
Someone conciously had to go out of their way to remove functionality there.
Maybe there’s a reason for it, but I still think it’s a shit change.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You could do thay before?
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The only legitimate complaint I have is I use a 4k monitor at 150% scaling. YouTube, in its design genius, decided that it should show me three videos per row, at like half the screen.
Thankfully with Google I was able to find something that helps
r4venw@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Honestly thank you for posting that link. I thought i had gone crazy thinking that i had only now just noticed the shit UX of 3 videos per row
Scolding7300@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The article has pics if you want a preview
brb@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
It looks quite nice actually
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Thanks, but it won’t really affect me. I only use
Freetubewhen I want to access Youtube
confuser@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
What a great day to be a grayjay user lol
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
Looks like they just adopted material you design. It’s a ‘whatever’ change for me.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I don’t think yt-dlp+mpv changed much…
AugustWest@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
That’s a lot of effort when you can just freetube.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Everyone has their preferred way, innit.
aleq@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I prefer the old one, but it’s really not much of a difference. New one looks a bit cheaper, like something you’d see on piracy sites or something.
Also just realised Jellyfin basically has the old YouTube design. Don’t know if YT was first with it, but if so it was pretty influential, think it’s quite common in many players.
alphapuggle@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Oh man, I remember when this was the new one
MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The huge Thumb nails on the home page are ridiculous. Makes it harder to find content I want to watch. If you zoom out it will only show 4 horizontal thumbnails, Max.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Agreed. It feels like a UI designed for little children or senior citizens.
torrentialgrain@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
There’s an Extension for chrome that fixes this luckily.
Securus777@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
What is it called?
mooncake@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
It looks exactly the same just a little different skin
arakhis_@feddit.org 12 hours ago
proper@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
yay browser plugins
mr_satan@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
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.muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
This ain’t a problem with PipePipe
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Youtube: …
Everyone else: …
Youtube: LETS FUCK SHIT UP!!!
DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 hours ago
The old and the new UI still auto hides controls and the seekbar and timestamp. I hate that it hides those! Besides remember when the seekbar showed where the Ads were in marking those sections in yellow? Good times.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Revanced, no more ads
plecks@programming.dev 11 hours ago
Add Sponsorblock (included in Revanced) to skip in-video sponsor segments as well as self-marketing, recaps, etc if you want.
j4yt33@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Does ublock remove the in-video ad Breaks for you? Never worked for me
sanderium@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
It looks like the status bars window manager users tend to customize
hmmm@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
It look sexy.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I think so too, and we are entitled to our opinion.
AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
new coke problems
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
I don’t use the youtube app but I’ve hated every new redesign. Bring back the old ui
raod_guitar@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Oh so is that why I sometimes have to wait for a minute now before I can play a video?
golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 22 minutes ago
Neat, didn’t notice since they perma banned me for watching without ads via freetube I believe.
Ive just been downloading videos direct with yt-dlp, but I think I’m going to extend it into a bash script which fetches the RSS of the channels I want, downloads them if they haven’t been downloaded, and then deletes them after they have been watched and after a certain amount of time has passed, or if I have marked them for deletion.