After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube • Hacker News Board

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by maniflames » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:13 PM UTC

utf985 wrote: post #30

This is sad. As someone who loves browsing the "hidden" side of YT where videos and channels with sub 3 and 4 digit viewcount lurk and discovering weird obscure content, this feature was a godsend. I have been able to contact users that otherwise leave absolutely no contact info on their pages to ask them about certain content they have uploaded on multiple occasions. I really dislike how stuff like twitter and Insta…

I feel you. Unfortunately if a feature or product doesn't hit the high numbers Google kills it.

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by OliverJones » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:30 PM UTC

They offer no motivation for the change.

Are they trying to make it harder to weaponize nasty content?

Or do they just want to save a few bucks by stopping maintenance on a feature?

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by realshowbiz » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

Does anyone have insights or ideas about why this change is being made?

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by Kaiyou » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

znpy wrote: post #35

"Google continues the war against its own users", as someone will write about this article.

Probably in Comic Sans, too.

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by FreakyT » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

You’d think they’d simply migrate to one of their other redundant chat products!

But no, I suppose just killing the feature with no meaningful replacement strategy is the new GOOGLE WAY™. I can’t wait to invest all my money in a library of Stadia games that will surely last forever. /s

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #40

kkarakk wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was more obvious in the mobile app - there was an entire tab devoted to messaging. I still don't know how to access it from desktop

It was not well exposed, and unavailable completely on the iPad version of their app, but it was quite useful between my wife and I for sharing videos asynchronously.

Youtube's UI is a fucking disaster, like most of Google's interfaces tbh. To this day, I don't know how to get to a list of all my videos; I either literally google for it, or just click around randomly until I finally find it.

It doesn't help that the Google+ profile they forced on me _also_ has a YouTube account, and I've uploaded some videos to the wrong one, so I get to do the dance twice.

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by rtkwe » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #40

kkarakk wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was more obvious in the mobile app - there was an entire tab devoted to messaging. I still don't know how to access it from desktop

It was not well exposed, and unavailable completely on the iPad version of their app, but it was quite useful between my wife and I for sharing videos asynchronously.

Yeah the thing is there's a million other ways for you two to share them so to Google it was a low volume product with a lot of risk for harassment and little utility.

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by wDcBKgt66V8WDs » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

not_a_cop75 wrote: post #37

utf985 wrote: post #30

This is sad. As someone who loves browsing the "hidden" side of YT where videos and channels with sub 3 and 4 digit viewcount lurk and discovering weird obscure content, this feature was a godsend. I have been able to contact users that otherwise leave absolutely no contact info on their pages to ask them about certain content they have uploaded on multiple occasions. I really dislike how stuff like twitter and Insta…

This is the equivalent of Nintendo disabling profile pictures because of people abusing it with penis pictures.

Not really? 1) you can still have profile pictures from a limited though large set of their IP plus highly custom Mii and 2) the expected user bases and interaction methods between platforms is not at all comparable.

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by Inhibit » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:29 PM UTC

Is it my imagination or is Google devoid of the ability to integrate it's different "products"?

Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

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Post by nindalf » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:39 PM UTC

tenpies wrote: post #34

rubberstock wrote: post #18

How come the orangered envelope is cherished on reddit, but youtube discontinues the same feature? Has google entirely given up on getting a social network? Google seems to constantly create new messenger apps. Why would they discontinue the one that could be used to turn youtube into a real social network? Instead of hiding the feature, they should enhance it and make it usable, i.e. make it easy to block harassment…

> the orangered envelope is cherished on reddit Is is cherished? There is literally a meme that "orange envelope = who did I piss off now?". And granted there is a little bit of worthwhile content on Reddit, but it's basically the equivalent of reading Facebook at this point in time. Especially in what used to be the default subs.

3 envelopes = happy.

300 envelopes = oh shit.