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Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

37 wrote: post #61
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #45

"Does anyone else find this annoying as hell?" I find it annoying that an unpleasant user experience is generally viewed solely as a problem of the particular website and not a problem of the software available to access websites. For example, the user cannot simply switch to a browser that only supports a subset of the HTML protocol, e.g., one that does not support autoplay. Instead users must expend energy to try t…

I see you getting downvoted for this, but I don't see anything you said that is incorrect. Sure, the way that you use the platform may not be practical for 99.9% of people, but it doesn't make it any less valid.

I appreciate it, 37. Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by ehnto »

I don't mind that it autoplays with captions, that's actually pretty useful. I can sometimes get the gist of a video and not need to watch it at all.

But it is annoying that videos I've hovered over show up as watched, since I definitely haven't watched it yet and I might end up skipping it later if I think I've watched it already.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by s-lted »

shmde wrote: post #68

I have switched to Piped as a frontend alternative to Youtube, and Libreddit for Reddit. I don't understand why are they so adamant on making the UI worse every passing day. I absolutely loathe the reddit redesign.

It is forever amazing how artificially heavy everything is.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by mod »

cercatrova wrote: post #40

I quite like it, after having seen it in the, ahem, adult spaces . But seriously though, it's a good enough feature for just checking out whether a video is interesting enough to watch or whether the title and thumbnail are just clickbait, which they often are for making the creators money. It saves me a click or new tab which is even more annoying than hovering over a video.

I like the preview, but I don't like that youtube is basically playing the video (without audio) and if I watch 30 seconds, then click through, it starts me 30 seconds in.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by foepys »

epistasis wrote: post #41
DavidGetchel wrote: post #35

For me, the autoplay was there and fine. The growing big is new, annoying and similar to Amazon/Netflix. There was no need to change it.

This has severely limited my usage of Netflix. I'm pretty close to cancelling it.

You can disable autoplay for Netflix, weirdly only in the account settings that you cannot reach from any app but only in a web browser.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by wpm »

k12sosse wrote: post #9

This reminds me of when they introduced the autoplay when scrolling on the mobile app. I'm fine with getting an audio-free preview, assuming I'm not on mobile data, but they originally started kicking the videos they'd preview into your history. I had a moderately well trained profile that kept my junk to a minimum but boy-oh-boy, all these "useless" (as in no value to me) YT shorts started invading my recommendation…

They definitely still show up in your watch history, at least on iOS.

What a dumpster fire of an app. I really don’t know how any of the people who work on it feel good.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by lostdog »

knaik94 wrote: post #18
rmason wrote: post #13

Do they actually do any user testing before launching a feature? Or did someone important at YouTube think it was a cool idea and greenlighted it. How about doing a poll before a video asking people if they like the feature? If they answer no then ask if they'd like it turned off? Beats moving on to the next new feature.

I know for a fact that they do a bunch of A/B testing at a time. The metrics they measure to decide if the change was effective isn't transparent. I wish there was a straightforward way but I imagine the "Send feedback" in the sidebar includes a way for them to see what experiments are active on your account.

Did they write the headings of the report backwards maybe?

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by tatami »

leshenka wrote: post #32

I usually scroll through YouTube and add videos I want to watch to "watch later". Before this change I could just hover on the video and click the button to add it to WL playlist. Now I need to hover, wait and click this unnecessarily big and ugly "ADD TO WATCH LATER" button

Yes this is massively annoying. Especially since the "old" watch later button will appear for a flash moment where it used to be.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by taubek »

I didn't even notice it until now. I went to check after reading your post. For me it takes one or two seconds for autoplay to start. Now that I've seen it, I must say that I don't mind this feature. I think that it could be useful.

The reason why I like is the fact that thumbnail image is not necessarily the accurate representation of the video. Short clip should reveal much better what is the real content of the video.

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