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Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).

Do you mind sharing what you don't like about it? I'm honestly curious.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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post #7

I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).

It becomes incredibly difficult to fit new features into an interface that everybody knows without changing it and when you change something like this you alienate and non-power users which makes them watch less which means less advertising.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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post #7

I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).

The Android app isn't very good, especially with regards to commenting: notifications sometimes don't come through, the layout is inflexible, and it isn't possible to edit or vote on comments.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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post #7

I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).

It's the result when pendulum swung from Google being out of place regarding design to madness of designers running the show (whitespaces, huge fonts, images on a desktop intended website).

It's engineered to cater the most average Internet user. A drone. Stick out of the average with your wishes and you're out of luck.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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post #7

I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).

One possible reason: think of the groups that formed on Facebook each time they changed the design, they didn't have any impact but they still existed that part of users.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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post #16

On the subject of YouTube related chrome extensions, I created one called WikiTube a couple of years ago. Its super simple, and just adds relevant YouTube videos to the top of Wikipedia pages. I'm quite happy with it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikitube/aneddidib...

That's really cool, I like it.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Now that Firefox (at least Dev Edition) is almost WebExtensions ready I wonder if... Does it work in Firefox 48? http://arewewebextensionsyet.com/

It doesn't appear to ... you can change the "Add to Chrome" button in the Google Play Store to "Add to Firefox" using the "Chrome Store Foxified" add-on in Firefox [1]. Now the button on the "YouTube Stay" page let's me add the add-on to Firefox (temporarily as it's not signed).

I'm running Firefox Developer Edition 48.0a2.

[1] http://www.ghacks.net/2016/05/23/install-google-chrome-exten...

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