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YouTube's New Hue

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Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by josephg »

jsheard wrote: post #9
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.

The least they could do is write up something as unhinged as that old Pepsi design strategy document. https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

Thats amazing. Its in the uncanny valley where I can't tell if they're serious or if they're having a laugh.

It immediately makes me think of the song "Redesign Your Logo" by Lemon Demon. Pure comedy.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by thomasfromcdnjs »

jsheard wrote: post #24
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.

I'll bite;

- When I search for recent news e.g. "australian medical staff jewish" (current topic), all the results are left leaning responses. I would mostly prefer to see the original video without commentary and uncut, and also would like to see more right wing responses. (A lot of issues over the years that were right leaning would just surface late night comedians mocking the right wings perspective on such issues)

- Looking up medical or scientific claims that are "indisputable" e.g. climate change, covid. I was curious to see Kari Mullis speak about his claims around hiv/aids correlation but only one or two videos exist, I had to go to the alt-youtubes to find speeches and lectures he did.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by robofanatic »

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. Probably they just laid off their UX guy.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by James_K »

YouTube is such a horribly designed site. The best feature they've added in ages is the queue option, bet even that is busted as hell. Half the time an "add to queue" button appears on the thumbnail of the video, but the other half of the time it doesn't and you have to click the ellipsis menu. Even when you can click the button, it will select element of the page which leaves the video auto playing unless you hover back over it to stop. The queue itself disappears if you close and re-open the tab which is plain annoying. The video player itself sometimes breaks and requires me to reload the page. Ambient mode is annoying and I dislike it being on by default. Sometimes I click on a thumbnail but it has an on-hover action that spawn a link to their "about sponsored content" page right over the thumbnail where I wanted to click on the video, then when I hit the back button the home page has refreshed and the video I wanted to watch is gone.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by skydhash »

ncann wrote: post #17

> Robyn: To give YouTube a sense of motion, we created a dynamic red-to-magenta gradient. For the second color, orange and yellow were strong contenders, but magenta felt like the most natural pairing with our new red. Interestingly, magenta doesn't often appear in the natural world, so it symbolizes the imagination and evolution that YouTube embodies. We also placed the gradient at a 45-degree angle with magenta on…

  Bateman:
    [internal monologue] Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God... it even has a watermark.
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