No mention that the YouTube logo had a gradient in 2011.
YouTube's New Hue
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#62I sense that, albeit slowly, big companies are moving back to more complicated skeuomorphic-like designs. Here YouTube’s adding a (very subtle) gradient. Better examples may be: compare the newest macOS icons to those from the Sierra (?); and the new Reddit logo has a slight 3D effect, while I remember the old one was flat. Allegedly styles and fashion go in cycles, so maybe minimalism is going out of fashion. I doub…
I think this is the thesis, antithesis, synthesis cycle:
Thesis = full skeumorphic 2005 YouTube logo
Antithesis = flat 2015 YouTube logo
Synthesis = "Material" design. Light 3D effects.
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#63Six well-paid Google designers trumpeting a new…gradient. Maybe I’m too curmudgeonly for my own good, but that is quite underwhelming.
There's a lot that goes that you don't notice, or that you easily forget about when you make a comment like this.
The introduction of a gradient and accent actually enables and makes it more natural to use more eye-catching effects on the platform. For example, when a YTer says "subscribe", a rainbow (IIRC) animation plays on the subscribe button. When you like or subscribe, an animation plays that now has more color to it. These animations feel satisfying and I dare say have measurable impact.
At the same time, the changes are so subtle that users hardly notice a change that they will have difficulty getting used to, and also already present components do not look out of place if they don't get refreshed.
That is what an experienced design team is paid to do. Complaining about seeing no drastic change here is like complaining about engineers making no user-facing effect when they refactor the underlying systems in preparation for future developments.
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#64There's a big opportunity to build apolitical uncensored clone of YouTube. Current alternatives lack funding and don't function well
Youtube is probably the most reasonable of the social media websites now. Well it was until Twitter was fixed by Mr Musk, anyway.
People have been allowed to post crazy nonsense on YouTube for many years. For a short period they censored quite heavily (2020-2023ish) but theyve backed off. It has never been as bad as Twitter or Facebook were where milquetoast 2008 Obama would have been banned ten times over.
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#65Now it looks like Tinder.
So YouTube has come full circle.
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#66What a colossal waste of time. The gradient on the progress bar made me think my tv had broken at first
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#67Ha! My first reaction from this article is that someone is up for the next promotion cycle.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 issue…
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#69What a colossal waste of time. The gradient on the progress bar made me think my tv had broken at first
Hey now, I am actually sick to death of flat material design and am happy to see gradients making a comeback.
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#70How to say you’re a monopoly without saying you are a monopoly, “Our refresh journey began by pinpointing YouTube’s most outdated elements through research. Color ranked in the top three, so we knew that evolving our palette would make an immediate and significant impact.”