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

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

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Post by cronix »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #46
falcolas wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

On the website, the first option in the dropdown when you click your profile is "Your Channel" which has all of your videos?

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

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Post by ilikehurdles »

It's so funny seeing Zawinski's Law hold up after all this time (replacing "email" with "messaging"), and Google again fighting it.

I wish the culture of SaaS development would move away from this try-to-do-everything mentality that always leads to anciliary features being modified or removed, and instead focus on honing their core offering. No user cheers a feature going away -- either they're ambivalent about it or annoyed for having to switch away.

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

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Post by xxpor »

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 really dislike how stuff like twitter and Instagram have become the standard form of reaching anyone, as I have neither and your messages can very easily become ignored due to the very nature of how these two social networks operate.

I don't get where this sense of entitlement comes from. Why do you think you have any right to contact creators or that they shouldn't ignore your messages?

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

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Post by misterdoubt »

cronix wrote: post #62
pavel_lishin wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

On the website, the first option in the dropdown when you click your profile is "Your Channel" which has all of your videos?

Nope. It only has your public videos -- no private, no unlisted.

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

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Post by roddux »

Kaiyou wrote: post #44
znpy wrote: post #35

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

Probably in Comic Sans, too.

I think you were downvoted by people that didn't get the reference, cheers for the reminder.

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

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Post by kryogen1c »

wDcBKgt66V8WDs wrote: post #48
not_a_cop75 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 2) the expected user bases and interaction methods between platforms is not at all comparable.

Exactly. Pictures visible through normal use are not the same as an inbox you have to go out of your way to read.

At the very least, the sensibe thing is to make messages opt-in or whitelist only. Removing the feature to prevent harassment seems like a scapegoat. I wonder if this was being utilized as an illegal communications channel and YT\alphabet is worried about legal exposure

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

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Post by whenchamenia »

nindalf wrote: post #50
tenpies wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Does it really matter what people on a forum think of you?

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

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Post by whenchamenia »

unstatusthequo wrote: post #56

Kinda wish they would disable comments. Those tend to bring out sides of humanity that rarely show off any benevolence.

And yet, you comment, showing us that side. Not sure if blissfully unaware or diliberately meta.
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