I'm just glad they aren't making yet another 4-main-color ambiguous app icon to confuse with every other Google app.
YouTube's New Hue
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#72A 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.)
I know I sound silly and dumb for feeling so strongly about something so small, but the gradient really gets on my nerves. It is indeed so subtle as to make it feel like something is wrong with the display, but not subtle enough that I don't notice it _every time_. Similarly, the "glow" they introduced a while back makes it feel like I'm getting the worlds worst backlight bleed. Mercifully I use FreeTube to watch You…
That glow I think you're referring to is "theater mode" and fortunately it can be disabled on the gear menu. It's incredibly distracting, especially in Firefox it can sometimes be laggy.
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#73Good thing I use Invidious instead.
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#74> Linda: We want YouTube to be a welcoming space for our broad user base regardless of demographic, so we stayed away from colors that felt domineering, cold, or corporate.
She's making hundreds of thousands of dollars, while most intelligent, honest, hard working people will never have any chance of owning a home or starting a family. That's all I could think of when reading this.
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#75Ha! My first reaction from this article is that someone is up for the next promotion cycle.
Same. The gradient is ugly and unnecessary IMO. Looks like discoloration, especially in the progress bar. But hey, if the promo committee likes it, what's a couple billion users between friends?
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#76These designers are grasping hard to justify their existence. Second part of the article harps on the importance of contrast yet the background is so overtly salmon it's almost impossible to read.
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#77I 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?
Did no one at Google read this blog post on an iPhone before publishing?
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#78I absolutely hate the gradient on the progress bar. When a video is full screened I'm no longer able to tell at a glance how far along the progress bar is because the gradient and the grey segment for buffering all fades together. This is so simple to not mess up. It worked before. Why did you change it??
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#79A 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.)
My school had a malfunctioning CRT back in the day and seeing the rainbow gave me joy as a kid. I always picked that computer! So no anxiety for me.
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#80> We change the product constantly — we’re talking over 1,700 updates per year!
Good job, the new red is a huge improvement.
Meanwhile the YouTube comment sections are still getting pummeled by bots, trying to scam viewers with fake crypto offerings (90%+ involving an "Elon Musk giveaway") or writing entire threads praising the great investment returns from a genius trader named "Mr Definitely A. RealName" who operates only on WhatsApp.
Take a look at the comments under this video for example, all the references to AMZ6OP are for a scam crypto token that they pretend is being launched by Amazon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRd_wNHJG4o.
I'm having doubts even reposting this link… please do not believe for a second that any of these claims are real.
I guess changing red to red-ish magenta was apparently more important than addressing the widespread issues that have been plaguing YouTube for years.