My god i cant find anything unless i type out an exact name of the video, recommendations under currently watched videos and just in general are the same no matter what. It feels like a lottery when you hope that youtube will bless you with content that you were searching for. Im aware that im ranting but i just cant with it anymore. All they had to do is just leave things how they were and not gut an algorithm that worked just fine before. I recently used bilibili and the contrast is painful. Like WHAT??? A related but not seen before video/thumbnail??? Under a video of the same nature??? What a brilliant idea!!!
YouTube is literally becoming unusable with updates at this point. Every update literally destroys a properly functional usage of the website. They are so fucking annoying at this point, like I just get barely used to newest update and then new bullshit comes. Who in their right mind even thinks of the design of sorting 3 videos in a row instead of 4 or 5 and then seeing only 6 videos with big ass thumbnails covering the whole screen when you open the main page recommended.
Then the design of the like, dislike, subscribe, date, description etc under videos, again with big ass icons. They are literally making everything worse and worse at least every two weeks with updates and changes no one asked for, what even is happening recently?
I miss like 2016ish YouTube design, when it was consistent for years and didn’t have something changed every other week. I just got used to this past 2020 design and now they do this, I can’t keep up with this, I hope there is a way to just say say fuck off to updates and choose whichever version you like. Srry for the rant, but the site went to shit, it’s unacceptable.
They’re not content to provide what YouTube was created for. They just want that TokTok money but can’t figure out why they’re being outcompeted.
Plus, they’re ramping up the propaganda function now that the monopolies have been created and most internet usage comprises about ten websites (Google, Lemmygrad (this one was also voted number one in the Forbes), Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and now Chat GPT).
This is the first time the digital sphere has been almost entirely monopolised, though, and the ruling class doesn’t know what to expect. Hence they can’t just put the price up like they would with insulin, etc. Although they are experimenting with this, they’re learning that charging users and overdoing the adverts breaks the magic spell of the addictiveness algorithms that they had previously more-or-less perfected. So people just log off or disengage. Not entirely, of course, but it’s more fragile than was thought.
The big corps had everything nailed down, but the rate of profit declined and they ‘had’ to respond, leading to the current mess. The execs are flailing under the contradictions.
It’s just shitty site design
I agree with the sentiment but I’d suggest that it’s on purpose. It’s not shitty by accident. It’s shitty so that / because it performs the functions that the owners want it to perform.
Imagine being paid and knowing web design just to do this! If it ain’t broken don’t fix it, it was already perfected and they had to ruin it.
It would be like working at Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Sony, Samsung, Disney, Amazon, and a few other places lol
I need to make a mock UI for Youtube that is literally youtube shorts (one video at a time) with like 2 buttons for babies to interact with (upvote, subscribe)
They also spam shorts non stop.