The nastiest trick for me is that no matter how times I tell YouTube not to show me shorts on the home page, they always sneak back in.
The "fix" I've seen them testing is changing the wording to "show less shorts."
Someone at YouTube needs glasses
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#52For a long time the grid of videos on the homepage has been slightly misaligned. I imagine the different rows belong to different teams. This means you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over. I find the autoplay so annoying because it hides the thumbnail which was carefully designed to communicate why I should click on the video and replaces…
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This has been one of the most frustrating things I run into with Youtube scrolling the page. Can’t leave your cursor on the page while scrolling without managing to have the spacing shift the thumbnails just so slightly so that your cursor lands back into a thumbnail for an autoplay to start and add to the metrics.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look at the screenshots and tell me that's good design.
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> Person on the Internet sure thinks their personal preferences are powerful and universal.
> maximized viewport on a 32" monitor is pretty moronic
Sure seems like you think your “personal preferences are powerful and universal” ;)
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Yet the number of points being accumulated on the thread is rapidly increasing and you're getting down-voted. It would seem you did not reflect on your comments before writing and publishing them.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does this mean? Does this mean that there will be no more video UI (only the shorts UI)? Does this mean that only shorts will show up on the homepage? etc. (Also a source would be nice.)
Parent comment needs a /s.
Does it though? It's blatantly obvious sarcasm
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#56Thank 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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#57Vote with your attention.
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#58I 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.
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#59It 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.
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#60Yeah this is late-stage 'growth.' Hamstring your other products to reconcentrate activity, 'rebalance' usage to Shorts content by making the original offering, long-form content less usable, lower quality, less interesting; and so shall it remain until some congress finally forces these players cut a dividend instead of this moronic buybacks situation, hysterical that abruptly stopped talking about this for no apparent reason.
It's kind of conceptually like a Shepard's tone, though, which is maybe interesting.