What pissed you off today? v. VI
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Don't worry, boys, God is on our side.
This fresh atrocity known as the "new YouTube layout" is a crime against humanity. Its only redeeming feature is the built-in "dark mode", which was a non-issue anyway because of extensions such as YouTube Centre. Ah... but YouTube Centre is now broken, of course. The font size is obnoxiously large, the layout itself looks like something from a sodding tablet app, and, with YouTube Centre broken, there's no "lights off" mode, which means that I'm forced to stare at the top bar and a sliver of the stuff beneath the video, as the "cinema mode" is too damn small.
EDIT: Okay, okay, there's a silver lining: The site is usable at 80% scale, and videos are watchable at 30% (the minimum Firefox can offer). The player even grows larger as all the other UI components - which I'm not interested in whilst trying to look at a video - become smaller and smaller.
EDIT: Okay, okay, there's a silver lining: The site is usable at 80% scale, and videos are watchable at 30% (the minimum Firefox can offer). The player even grows larger as all the other UI components - which I'm not interested in whilst trying to look at a video - become smaller and smaller.
Definitely better at 80%, yeah.
They also removed the blue coloured likes for no reason.
They also removed the blue coloured likes for no reason.
It's probably a case of someone new coming into the job, they need to change things to justify their appointment. Otherwise Chief of Youtube Layout is just going to be twiddling his thumbs and surfing the internet all day, and that doesn't look good to colleagues and bosses. Before you know it, the poor man is out of a job, gossips and tell tales having betrayed him to the big boss. It's not fair, it's not right!! He had potential; it's a flaw of human nature that made people see him as bad at his job just because he wasn't doing anything- if a change had needed making he would have made it! But no, now things are getting shifted around for no reason and messing it all up, and every one of those frowning bastards thinks the new boy is the bee's knees.
You can revert it in settings. It's dumb you have to, but you can.
It feels so damn rigid now. White space everywhere. Invisible dividers. The UI thinks it knows what you want. Related videos below the video unless you make the window 1000px wide.
Cinema mode scales with your window but it's smaller than before at many window sizes, because it absolutely refuses to have scroll bars.
Jacobhinds said:
Incorrect. If you're using a personal computer, Cinema mode is larger than the old one at all window sizes. You don't often user a persanal comprinter, though.
The Doge of Benis said:I'm confused. Cinema mode is too small? It nearly takes up the whole window. If I wanted it to go any bigger I'd just go into full screen mode.
I don't enjoy seeing all that rubbish that's still present above and beneath the video in the new (and conventional) way.
Jacobhinds said:
Wait, it is? I have no space either side anymore - the player never used to go to the edge of the window in enlarged mode before. Unless I'm getting my modes confused.
EDIT:
Oh, interesting. I never used Youtube Centre or custom layout settings, so that is maybe where I was going wrong.
Vanilla old YouTube cinema mode was indeed smaller. If you're coming from only ever using standard YouTube, this is bigger, better and more bigger.
Youtube is ****ed because they have ****ty people running it and those people have lots of agendas to push. Can't care less about the layouts when the content creators are losing the monetary encouragement for making videos.
