Someone at YouTube needs glasses • Hacker News Board

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by calf » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

geuis wrote: post #16

Their mobile site is also terrible. It's like the designers forgot that people watch videos in landscape mode. For example, comments won't load unless you rotate to portrait mode first. I mean, come on.

Their TV app changed grid layout of playlists to list that scrolls down so slowly, this makes my 100+ video playlist useless! Argh.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by presbyterian » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

I've stopped using YouTube directly. This is only for Apple users, but I started using the app Play[1]. It manages my subscriptions, keeps a watch later list (with smart tags and filtering, if you'd like), and you can even play videos directly in the app (and it remembers your place, better than YouTube itself does sometimes), though I still open it in the browser so I can use SponsorBlock.

[1]: https://marcosatanaka.com/#play

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by timbit42 » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

Have you looked at the "YouTube-shorts block" add-on?

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by II2II » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

On the extrapolation to zero videos by September 2026: it is already here.

Seriously. Clear your cookies or open a private window. All of the videos are replaced by the message "Try searching to get started". Granted, as someone who clears cookies regularly, I like the change.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by troupo » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

Here are more screenshots/data points https://x.com/nikitonsky/status/1916085438915150006

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by louthy » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

> I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts.

Absolutely this! I was looking to see if it was an option yesterday. Annoyingly not :/

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by Maken » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

But how else are they going to compete with TikTok?

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by hackeman300 » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

jeffbee wrote: post #56

InMice wrote: post #49

Thank you for writing this post! I opened youtube a few days ago to this as well. On a 24" 1440p monitor its ridiculous. It's incomprehensible there's a UI/UX team that gets paid millions of dollars per year and the result is changes like this. Thank you again for writing this post. After searching it seems like they've been "testing" this in segments for a while now. As a result I installed the "Control Panel for Yo…

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Perhaps the incentives of said UX team don't align with those of the user. They might be optimizing for maximal time spent on the site, for instance.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by codedokode » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

zippergz wrote: post #59

Starlevel004 wrote: post #40

It used to be 12 videos until about a year ago. If you zoom in and out the thumbnails don't change size! The worst casualty of the current design is the search. You get three videos before it inserts completely irrelevant and unrelated algorithmic recommendations. No? Fuck off? Do what I tell you to do!

Yes, this search thing is absolutely infuriating.

They think that people are idiots and unable to deal with more that 3 search results. Or maybe they think their search is so good that the wanted video is always within those 3.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by louthy » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:06 PM UTC

timbit42 wrote: post #63

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

Have you looked at the "YouTube-shorts block" add-on?

Not the OP, but I want to turn off Shorts too. I do most of my youtube access via Apple TV -- where Shorts are particularly annoying when scrolling through Subscriptions -- so this wouldn't be an option.

It just needs to be a preference!