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Looks the same to me on a PC. Up/down arrows still adjust the volume. Scroll wheel on my mouse scrolls the entire screen as always. Do the changes only affect touchscreen devices?
Same. Money says that people bitching are on phones. Fair enough I guess, but I'm not fucking around watching video on a palm screen. I'll wait till I get home and have a 40" TV to view.
Yes, I don't get how watching videos on tiny screens is so popular. Seems like self-imposed misery.
It's all relative. If i sit a few meters away from a 50 inch screen, then it's roughly the same size as a phone screen held 30cm from my face. It's just a matter of perspective.
The level of detail i can see is the same. My fancy earbuds make the sound quality essentially the same if not better.
The only real difference is i have to hold the phone to watch it.
Well, most people... not me, I have a folding phone with a stand, so for me, i can comfortably put the phone on a table on the stand that's built into the case and watch from there. Works just fine.
as always with corporate shit
I'm indifferent to it. The jarring years were 2006 up to about 2015. It would shift between better and worse until it reached the point where the front page was all clickbait/ragebait/advertisements and you had to rely on your own subscriptions page. Every social media site should default to subscribed/followed stuff for logged in users but got to selll paid to promote content
stupid transcript button
Apart from the key bind loss, which would be asinine to remove permanently, this looks like a straight upgrade. Better readability and more in line with the rest of the UI design.
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.
I'm using Pinchflat to do that as well. It can download vídeos from Youtube channels I follow using yt-dlp and checks automatically fpr new videos. Check it out, it might be similar to what you want to do
Wonderful, not surprised it exists already, Thanks!
I don't think it looks terrible, but it does look like windows media player from 20 years 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
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.
When a developpers changes an UI without written consent of every single user, he should be treated like a witch at Salem
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.
How is that in their defense?? You reveal them for the gross imcompetents that, and almost all developpers are.
If foreign strangers impose changes on my motor cortex then my prescription is to give them flamethrower enemas.
Stop it, just stop it! Or else!
LOL, nailed it.
I'm still bitter about browsers removing backspace for previous page. How was that hard to maintain?!
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
the new design looks like it came from ten years ago
Looks like they just adopted material you design. It's a 'whatever' change for me.
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
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.
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.
