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YouTube's New Hue

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Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by mikepurvis »

afavour wrote: post #11
cft wrote: post #3

There's a big opportunity to build apolitical uncensored clone of YouTube. Current alternatives lack funding and don't function well

1. Off-topic 2. There isn't a big opportunity really. The current alternatives are reflective of that lack of opportunity.

I agree. The subscription model is actually pretty decent at allowing you to find stuff from the creators you care about without having a ton of algorithmic "for you" content shoved in your face.

Yes, obviously YouTube does still wield enormous power over what shows up on the home page and in the "watch next" queue, but it's still overall far less invasive than the tiktok/reels/shorts model, and gives me way less cause for anxiety about the political motivations of whoever is pulling the strings on that algorithm behind the scenes.

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Post by josephg »

exogen wrote: post #10

A comment I made when I started noticing the magenta gradient at the end of the progress bar: it's a bit anxiety-inducing for those who remember needing to degauss their monitors, because it looks almost exactly like when you mess up a CRT with a magnet. (Aside from that: not a fan, it makes the chrome of the video player more distracting.)

Oh, thankyou for finally naming it. I've had a vague sense of anxiety for months seeing that gradient - like something is wrong and I need to fix it somehow. I just had no idea why I felt that way until I read your comment just now.

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Post by pilaf »

The page's background turns to fairly unpleasant pink once you scroll past the middle point. Is that the norm for design.google blog posts or is it some kind of subtle messaging about the new gradient?

Also the replacement of the mouse cursor with that negative-color circle is visually interesting, but it suffers a lot from input lag which gets on my nerves.

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Post by jsheard »

cft wrote: post #3

There's a big opportunity to build apolitical uncensored clone of YouTube. Current alternatives lack funding and don't function well

Non-sequitur aside, what specifically do you want to post on YouTube that's not allowed? To me it seems like you have to go pretty far off the rails before they'll step in.

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Post by unsnap_biceps »

hokumguru wrote: post #12
rgovostes wrote: post #8

On Mobile Safari the page scrolls up to the top every few seconds. Adds a novel bit of interactivity to the article.

This is incredibly aggravating, and I cannot read the article. It scrolls, even if I’m holding my finger on the page. To make matters worse for some optimizing reason or another reader isn’t able to capture the whole page text

Even if you pause the video it still jumps! What an ironic page to have this issue on.

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Post by dylan604 »

trentnix wrote: post #6

Six well-paid Google designers trumpeting a new…gradient. Maybe I’m too curmudgeonly for my own good, but that is quite underwhelming.

I feel the same way when my AWS console asked me to take survey on the EC2 console. I replied that I don't know which version I was meant to comment on since it changes every other week, and that I hope someone gets there performance bonus. My favorite question was "it feels modern". Like just leave the damn thing alone. Rather than worrying about useless small tweaks like a gradient, make sure the core features of the product work.

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

atonse wrote: post #16

I literally can’t read this blog post because it keeps jumping to the top of the page to play the video again and again. Maybe take 10% of the time you spent dreaming up new colors to just make your blog function like a regular page instead of adding a million weird animations?

Same experience- crazy. Had to use reader mode- except it doesn't have the full post afaict.
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