I wouldn't be surprised if it disappeared again. Playback speed briefly appeared on the Android TV app, then disappeared for good with no explanation.
YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby
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#42OT: I wish there was a way to create a playlist from music youtube suggestions. I am losing some good things when accidentally closing a tab.
> OT: I wish there was a way to create a playlist from music youtube suggestions. I am losing some good things when accidentally closing a tab. How about hover on each suggestion and add it to "Watch Later" or even Queue? That also works, at least for me.
Well, this becomes old fast :). I usually have to click 40 songs and add them to a new playlist. There are some firefox extension that can extract URL and rebuild playlist but they are a bit buggy.
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#43Now for them to bring back the 5 star rating system and video replies!
Video replies was a crazy idea in retrospect. Being able to anchor arbitrary videos to any other video at will is insanely ripe for abuse. If the feature existed today you would surely see thousands of spam videos with no relevance to the content they're replying to stuck underneath anything remotely popular. It's a wonder it ever worked as intended at all.
I think it could be a neat idea if you allowed the creator to choose which videos are posted as replies. I know there's so many times where a youtuber mentions something like "if I'm wrong/ignorant post me a link", and the ability to point to a video providing a better method would be invaluable.
OFC, I'm assuming a utopic world here. There's no incentive for neither Youtube nor the creator to do this, as opposed to simply linking more of their own stuff or whatever is ad friendly.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with dislike counting is that the customers of Youtube (advertisers) do not want it, because they are spooked to have their ads associated with perceived negativity.
They really need to fix this, because I have lost counting how many times I've got click-baited with a video that contained either violence in it or its content was completely unrelated to its thumbnail...therefore a visible dislike counter would have saved me from giving them views when they should have removed them from the platform as a whole. If any YouTube developer is reading this, please fix this dangerous beh…
I'm not sure how to say this without being at least a little offensive: If the above request is in earnest, it is incredibly naïve. You don't think they know this is a problem for users, or that legions of other users share this thought, or more charitably, do you think that sharing this thought will make a difference?
Google doesn't want to solve the fact that users spend more time watching clickbait and low quality videos as a result of removing features that they themselves implemented back when they thought they could be anything more than an advertising company. This strategy also explains what happened to Google Search.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Video replies was a crazy idea in retrospect. Being able to anchor arbitrary videos to any other video at will is insanely ripe for abuse. If the feature existed today you would surely see thousands of spam videos with no relevance to the content they're replying to stuck underneath anything remotely popular. It's a wonder it ever worked as intended at all.
> It's a wonder it ever worked as intended at all Even when it was available I've only ever seen a few cases of it working well. One prominent one was an educational YouTuber (Veritasium) asking users to post video replies with solutions to a physics puzzle/experiment that he was doing. Besides that, the feature was not used by creators and so spam videos and response girls were rampant in the video replies to most p…
Haha, Reply Girls. That brings back memories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_girl
If memory serves, that was ultimately what got the feature on its way out.
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#46Not for me yet, tried with a clean profile too. I have been missing this simple option a lot
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#47Now if only they could add back the ability to pick my own resolution with chromecast YouTube.
Their ability to guess my bandwidth is Bad. It always sticks me on 360p and yet 4K works fine everywhere in my house without question all the time. All other apps chromecast in HD just fine.
But no. Gotta take that feature away. Some obsessive UI/UX people who need to keep looking busy and necessary.
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#48Update: There's an article about the restored feature.
https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-oldest-sorting-coming-...
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#49Now if only they could add back the ability to pick my own resolution with chromecast YouTube. Their ability to guess my bandwidth is Bad. It always sticks me on 360p and yet 4K works fine everywhere in my house without question all the time. All other apps chromecast in HD just fine. But no. Gotta take that feature away. Some obsessive UI/UX people who need to keep looking busy and necessary.
It’s ok it’s probably a line item in their next promotion packet
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#50Confirmed. Now I'm just curious what the justification was for removing it, because it baffles me. The option was removed as part of a general UX refresh that moved from a sort drop-down to pill buttons -- this general drop-down -> pill thing seeming to be a general trend on apps and websites now. But it's hard to imagine why it was removed in the first place. Saving a minuscule amount money by reducing views of less…
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