YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design

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• alphapuggle@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh man, I remember when this was the new one

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• arakhis_@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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• mr_satan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Youtube: …

  Everyone else: …

  Youtube: LETS FUCK SHIT UP!!!

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• MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hate that at normal zoom it gives 3 and at 4 it gets slightly too small to read quickly.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed. It feels like a UI designed for little children or senior citizens.

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  • torrentialgrain@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s an Extension for chrome that fixes this luckily.

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    • Securus777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What is it called?

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This ain’t a problem with PipePipe

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• reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • r4venw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “you can no longer hover on the volume slider and scroll or even use the up/down keys to adjust the audio”

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    • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You could do thay before?

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    • reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The article has pics if you want a preview

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    • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      56179

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    • brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It looks quite nice actually

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    • reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks, but it won’t really affect me. I only use Freetube when I want to access Youtube

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• sanderium@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It looks like the status bars window manager users tend to customize

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• proper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  yay browser plugins

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• AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  new coke problems

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• mooncake@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It looks exactly the same just a little different skin

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s always the case.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s *always* the case.

    Maybe there’s a reason for that. The word “enshitification” doesn’t exist in a void.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sure someone will release an addon or some custom CSS to fix it.

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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, they could stop messing with things that aren’t broken for once…

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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