New Youtube

Do you like the new youtube?

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Everything is now inconvenient.

Also it won't stop asking me to "Take a Tour" even though I already did. That needs to be fixed.

I'm also confused about the unnecessary gray background.

Overall, though, it's nothing special and it will be easy enough to get used to.

I do like the Facebook and Google+ connectivity.
 
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cubeflip said:
WHY DO THEY KEEP CHANGING THINGS THAT DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS???? They don't even try to fix the real problems; they just keep making updates as soon as people have gotten used to the last change.
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I know. :( My biggest annoyance. I wish Youtube would have like a list of updates on the front page. Unless they already do and I can't find it.

Alright, so I took a look at the new homepage once I got it.
My favorite change is that subscription videos are now listed by VIDEO UPLOAD then just by Subscription. This is amazing!
And if you don't want to see that, there's a option you can uncheck so you can see all the activity your subscriptions are doing.
However, the downside to this is that, it's still not as compact as the original homepage. As a list, it stretches your homepage down A LOT. If you subscribe to a lot of people, then that homepage can go on forever.

As with the new channel design (cosmic Panda), it looks a lot cleaner than the original beta design now.
 
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Please don't say "If it's not broken, don't fix it". IT ALREADY WAS BROKEN. That's what we said last time.

Likes
It 100% looks better in terms of the overall "look". The old one looked like random blue and black text everywhere (remember the first time you saw the "improved" comments section? ewwww). This one actually looks like it has buttons.

The new channel design

Dislikes

The video viewing area
Too few related videos in it.
Clicking load more videos (related videos) gets rid of the comments.
Honestly...too MUCH focus on the video. Weird, but having to scroll down to view other stuff I don't like. I liked being able to read descriptions and view related videos while watching the video at the same time.




Recommended Channels are just mega-partners, which I don't like. However, recommended videos on the side of the homepage is actually accurate, and is probably done by showing related videos on my faved or liked videos.
 
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cubeflip said:
WHY DO THEY KEEP CHANGING THINGS THAT DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS???? They don't even try to fix the real problems; they just keep making updates as soon as people have gotten used to the last change.
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You know the old saying "If it ain't broken...completely revise it and change everything about it."
 
Just had a quick look through it. Overall I like it. I do not like the whole social networking aspect of it - I've never been a fan of it and I don't intend to start; I'd rather people weren't able to track my entire life on the internet. I like the suggested channels section of the home page. Overall I think it looks nicer. I need to spend a bit more time on it though.
 
Everyone keeps saying "It looks like a social networking site" and stuff like that. It doesn't look like a social networking site at all, nor is there a "social networking aspect" of it more than there already was. They did make it so you can connect to Facebook and Twitter, but this doesn't make it a social networking site by any means.
 
It seems that Google is constantly updating all its sites (they recently changed the gmail look), and making them more similar to each other, and more simplistic, which I don't really mind.
As for the new youtube, video pages are essentially the same, just with the look changed a bit, so it really doesn't make much of a difference. The new channel look is a big change. I put the featured tab as my default, which I put in creator view, and it looks pretty good. It doesn't seem to be as customisable as the old look though. I don't really like the new homepage. It it so much more cluttered, and since the page doesn't expand to the size of your window, everything is just too close together.
Of course, whenever a website anyone spends a lot of time on majorly changes their look, people don't like it. At first, I didn't like the new look of speedsolving, and I haven't liked it when the YouTube player I'm so used to has changed. But now I'm used to them, and the websites are just as good as before. I'm sure I'll get used to the new YouTube soon, and it'll be fine.
 
I'm indifferent to it. From a design standpoint, it looks better than before.It looks a bit like Myspace, which is eh. Like many, I hate how Youtube keeps changing everything constantly, especially when there is no need to "fix" it. We'll get used to it eventually, but I really wish youtube would stop changing everything so damn much.
 
'New youtube' always sucks. I still remember the five stars, the sidebar and all that stuff. I was still infamiliar with the 'old new' youtube... And this is even WORSE.
 
I think people will always complain about a change no matter how good it is. We just need to wait for about 3-5 weeks for the initial "shock" dies down then ask people. I think we will get a much better read on how people actually feel about it.
 
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