YouTube -- the New YouTube -- WTF? It sucks now.

[WhipperSnapper]

Am I the only person who does not like the new YouTube? Gone are the star ratings, and now it takes more effort to display the comments.

I think the comments area needed improvement, but I don't understand why they ditched the star rating system.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah they pretty much fudged it right up.

Also anyone else notice the sound is way low on all videos? I always have to turn my computer's sound up to view videos. This started a bit before this update I think...

Really it was good the way it was originally, I don't know why they keep changing it for the worse.

 

[Fritzo]

I find nothing wrong with the new format. Also, what was the point of rating a video?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Everytime they let you get nice and used to a good website, they go and radically change it, especially big names like Youtube, which really digs radical changes. The last BIG change was profile page changes which were majorly screwed up for a few months and still have a very big glitch that will allow you to do irrepairable & serious damage to someones comment section (I would tell you how, but its already well known).

Why do they do crap like this?

My theory is the same for YT, Microsoft, and any other big company - too many employees. To earn their paychecks, they have to be busy with something. In this case R&D and market research that says this & that (regardless if it holds true or not) must be done or people will get bored and migrate to other sites or products.

So in order to keep all the employees busy from R&D to technical to programming, they have to reinvent the wheel at least once a year. Otherwise come the layoffs and nobody wants that.

Sad, but true. :'(

 

[Red Squirrel]

Everytime they let you get nice and used to a good website, they go and radically change it, especially big names like Youtube, which really digs radical changes. The last BIG change was profile page changes which were majorly screwed up for a few months and still have a very big glitch that will allow you to do irrepairable & serious damage to someones comment section (I would tell you how, but its already well known).

Why do they do crap like this?

My theory is the same for YT, Microsoft, and any other big company - too many employees. To earn their paychecks, they have to be busy with something. In this case R&D and market research that says this & that (regardless if it holds true or not) must be done or people will get bored and migrate to other sites or products.

So in order to keep all the employees busy from R&D to technical to programming, they have to reinvent the wheel at least once a year. Otherwise come the layoffs and nobody wants that.

Sad, but true. :'(

Agreed. It's not just youtube, but big company/sites in general.

 

[Locut0s]

#1 these are not radical changes. They are fairly subtle actually.

#2 It DOES take a little getting used to but I actually prefer the new site. The drop down box that allows you to add a video as a fav or add it to a playlist is nice. The fact that the thumbs up and down on every single comment is not visible till you mouse over them is nice. Other minor things like popups and highlighting is nice too.

#3 I agree I missed the star system at first but when you think about it it never really served any purpose. Most videos were rated 5 stars no matter their quality or content or were rated 1 or 2 for no real reason either.

 

[Aharami]

whats so different about it? looks the same to me?:hmm:

 

[StrangerGuy]

Everytime they let you get nice and used to a good website, they go and radically change it, especially big names like Youtube, which really digs radical changes. The last BIG change was profile page changes which were majorly screwed up for a few months and still have a very big glitch that will allow you to do irrepairable & serious damage to someones comment section (I would tell you how, but its already well known).

Why do they do crap like this?

My theory is the same for YT, Microsoft, and any other big company - too many employees. To earn their paychecks, they have to be busy with something. In this case R&D and market research that says this & that (regardless if it holds true or not) must be done or people will get bored and migrate to other sites or products.

So in order to keep all the employees busy from R&D to technical to programming, they have to reinvent the wheel at least once a year. Otherwise come the layoffs and nobody wants that.

Sad, but true. :'(

Just like how Microsoft screws up the sound recorder after Win XP. How the fuck anyone with a working brain thinks it's a good idea to remove playback in the sound recorder?

 

[GrumpyMan]

Like Anandtechs main site? Well the only thing I don't like is the scrolling flash up top. Everything else is good to go though.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just like how Microsoft screws up the sound recorder after Win XP. How the fuck anyone with a working brain thinks it's a good idea to remove playback in the sound recorder?

LOL seriously? I don't even get why they would touch that tool unless it's to add more features. It worked fine for what it was suppose to do prior...

That's another thing, why REMOVE features? MS is actually pretty bad for this. They'll bloat up their OS yet remove features from it.

Anyone remember msconfig? It was in win98, then they removed it in ME (I think it was ME or 2k). Why? It looks like they added it back to XP though. Not sure about vista/7. Actually winipcfg was another one that got removed after 98. I actually miss that... so much easier to talk someone over the phone with that, then ipconfig. Oh, and in vista they removed telnet. wtf?! You have to install it separately but that's useless if you're trying to talk someone over the phone and you want to see if they can connect to a port.

 

[irishScott]

What's annoying the crap out of me right now is a glitch in the account playback settings. I can only select lowest quality or automatic detection. For some reason it always defaults to crap quality even though I'm on a fiber optic line. Looks like they took away "always play at the highest possible level".

 

[irishScott]

LOL seriously? I don't even get why they would touch that tool unless it's to add more features. It worked fine for what it was suppose to do prior...

That's another thing, why REMOVE features? MS is actually pretty bad for this. They'll bloat up their OS yet remove features from it.

Anyone remember msconfig? It was in win98, then they removed it in ME (I think it was ME or 2k). Why? It looks like they added it back to XP though. Not sure about vista/7. Actually winipcfg was another one that got removed after 98. I actually miss that... so much easier to talk someone over the phone with that, then ipconfig. Oh, and in vista they removed telnet. wtf?! You have to install it separately but that's useless if you're trying to talk someone over the phone and you want to see if they can connect to a port.

Just looked for it. Msconfig is present in windows 7.

 

[Locut0s]

LOL seriously? I don't even get why they would touch that tool unless it's to add more features. It worked fine for what it was suppose to do prior...

That's another thing, why REMOVE features? MS is actually pretty bad for this. They'll bloat up their OS yet remove features from it.

Anyone remember msconfig? It was in win98, then they removed it in ME (I think it was ME or 2k). Why? It looks like they added it back to XP though. Not sure about vista/7. Actually winipcfg was another one that got removed after 98. I actually miss that... so much easier to talk someone over the phone with that, then ipconfig. Oh, and in vista they removed telnet. wtf?! You have to install it separately but that's useless if you're trying to talk someone over the phone and you want to see if they can connect to a port.

Msconfig is in xp/2000/vista/7. Never used winipconfig. Telnet was probably removed because no one accept sys admins used it. The average user no longer knows what telnet is or would have any idea what to do with it.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Just looked for it. Msconfig is present in windows 7.

Yes, but DOS support isnt. And before you get on your soap box / high horse about how all the greasy little kids dont use it, so who cares crap, remember - there are people who were computing long before graphical interfaces.

 

[Fritzo]

Msconfig is in xp/2000/vista/7. Never used winipconfig. Telnet was probably removed because no one accept sys admins used it. The average user no longer knows what telnet is or would have any idea what to do with it.

It wasn't removed, it just has to be turned on. Since 99% of people using a computer won't use it, it's probably better to have it turned off for security.

 

[irishScott]

Yes, but DOS support isnt. And before you get on your soap box / high horse about how all the greasy little kids dont use it, so who cares crap, remember - there are people who were computing long before graphical interfaces.

You're talking to an Arch Linux using Computer Engineering Major.

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

I don't like how it takes 2 clicks instead of 1 to add a video to the queue, and I don't like that I can't FUCKING REMOVE ITEMS FROM IT. Was it too simple? Is Toyota working at YT now?