Kinda wish they would disable comments. Those tend to bring out sides of humanity that rarely show off any benevolence.
What kind of videos are you watching with toxic comments? I never see them in the topics I watch, only relevant or helpful ones.
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
#72Earlier 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.
And it keeps getting worse.
Before, videos I had already watched would have the thumbnail dimmed, with text on top. Now there's a thin red line under the video thumbnail that displays how far into the video I was last time.
It would be really useful to be able to go into a user's profile and filter out the videos you've already watched, or filter them at all.
It would also be nice to have a proper category list.
This is obvious functionality, that they must've left out on purpose. But why?
Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube
#73Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube
#74Sad. They simply should give content producers the option of whether they want to receive messages or not. (Similar to how you can turn comments on or off). This way, individuals who received "targeted harassment" could be free of it, and other individuals who don't have this problem, or are more thick-skinned or tolerant, can receive messages. (One complaint in a recent lawsuit against YouTube is that Google allow u…
That's impossible to do. A feature like that would be fairly simple to implement, and would make sense, so it can't be done by Google. Google products always have to have some kind of glaring missing feature. An example I found not long ago is with Google Photos. If you create an album, you can offer to share that album with other people, through their Google account, their phone number, their email, etc. If they acc…
Compelling take.
Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube
#75Earlier 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.
And it keeps getting worse. Before, videos I had already watched would have the thumbnail dimmed, with text on top. Now there's a thin red line under the video thumbnail that displays how far into the video I was last time. It would be really useful to be able to go into a user's profile and filter out the videos you've already watched, or filter them at all. It would also be nice to have a proper category list. This…
I'd love to be able to filter out videos I've watched that way. Speaking of which, I've noticed that the red line tends to disappear after a while, causing me to start videos I've already seen.
Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube
#76This 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.
When did Nintendo have custom profile pictures?
Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube
#77Earlier 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?
That just shows me what other people see when they view my channel. It doesn't show me the unlisted/private videos, nor does it let me _manage_ them in any meaningful level.
Clicking on "Youtube Studio (beta)" will show me some videos with checkboxes, and let me do some editing, I think, which is probably the thing I'm usually looking for.
Re: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube
#78Sad. They simply should give content producers the option of whether they want to receive messages or not. (Similar to how you can turn comments on or off). This way, individuals who received "targeted harassment" could be free of it, and other individuals who don't have this problem, or are more thick-skinned or tolerant, can receive messages. (One complaint in a recent lawsuit against YouTube is that Google allow u…
People like to play the victim. They will leave private messages on, get messages they don't like, and then produce bad PR for YouTube due to this. It's honestly the right move strategically given their goals.