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Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by Hunpeter »

godelski wrote: post #563
behringer wrote: post #519

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Careful there are programmers here watching. Pretend to like the bird.

> Careful there are programmers here watching Why would you be on HN if you weren't a programmer? And good! Fix your shit. Take some god damn pride in your work! Just because all code is shit doesn't mean it can be infinitely shitty.

> Why would you be on HN if you weren't a programmer?

This isn't (exclusively) a forum for programmers (in fact, since it belongs to YC, maybe you'd expect businesspeople etc.) For example, I'm not a programmer, and I've never worked anywhere near the IT sector, yet I visit HN often. Also, if you look at the frontpage there are usually many topics not related to programming, or even tech in general.

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Post by graynk »

stephen_g wrote: post #624
graynk wrote: post #348

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You can disable autoplay. Both on desktop and on mobile (not sure about TVs) It's buried in the settings but it's there.

It's stored in a cookie or the browser local storage and "conveniently" forgotten every few days for me.

it had never reset for me even once, so I'm not sure what's that about

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Post by calmbonsai »

hapticmonkey wrote: post #506
calmbonsai wrote: post #436

I've said it before. The secret to sanity when consuming YoutTube content is to never consume it on YouTube. The interface has been actively user-hostile for over 15 years.

People need to realise that all this AB testing is going to lead YouTube developers to one final version: An endless TikTok style scroll of (soon to be AI-generated) recommended videos. No search. No desktop/friendly UX. It’s all going to go away. You can see this happening already with the inability to permanently disable “shorts”. They can only be disabled for 30 days. You can see this happening when unrelated reco…

I concur. Aside from user hostility, these purely algorithmic feeds with no search, mid-video snap-cut ads, and blink-attention-span content is retarding reasoning skills and already having a negative gestalt effect on society.

For, perhaps only once in multiple generations, all the "old folks" raging against "the kids" with their new media are correct.

More and more, the movie "Idiocracy" is becoming a documentary.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by InMice »

htx80nerd wrote: post #403
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…

>It's incomprehensible there's a UI/UX team that gets paid millions of dollars per year and the result is changes like this. this is the story of the big company web sites - huge budget - best programmers - terrible design - terrible usability - doesnt make sense - gets worse over time it's unreal. seen on many major sites.

Yes, this my experience all the time. it's insane.

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Post by alterom »

IIsi50MHz wrote: post #699
alterom wrote: post #695

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>Using the most commonly version of the product, on the commonly used hardware, at least 2 days a week should be a prerequisite for every product owner. I am a firm believer that the software should also be developed on commonly used hardware. Your average user isn't going to have the top-of-the-line MacBook pro, and your program isn't going to be the only thing running on it. It may run fine on your beefed up monstr…

"The Microsoft Store" app is such a strong example of what happens when nobody cares about performance. It misses UI events most of the time, regardless of what hardware it's running on. Although, in this case, I don't think a Pentium 166MHz would help. The UI event processing is just fundamentally flawed. Usually, but not always, it ignores scroll events while an animation is playing…and hovering over a tile in the…

Thank you for your service o7

May your screams into the void be heard by the stakeholders, and not just people.

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Post by encrypted_bird »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #575
encrypted_bird wrote: post #565

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Serious question as I use an Android device, but do people not purchase cases for iphones? I use an Otterbox case for my phone and it gives it a bezel (though the phone might have had one to begin with—I don't remember).

People do, but they shouldn't have to purchase a case to have their phone correctly. I have never purchased a case for a phone and have no intention to start, myself.

That is a really stupid design decision. I am so sorry for users who have to deal with that.

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Post by encrypted_bird »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #575
encrypted_bird wrote: post #565

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Serious question as I use an Android device, but do people not purchase cases for iphones? I use an Otterbox case for my phone and it gives it a bezel (though the phone might have had one to begin with—I don't remember).

People do, but they shouldn't have to purchase a case to have their phone correctly. I have never purchased a case for a phone and have no intention to start, myself.

Ignore my other reply as it was meant for another comment. Regarding your comment:

I mean, I suppose you're right. However, that being said, a case is a good idea nonetheless, just as is a screen protector. A good case protects the phone against damage from dropping, just as a good screen protector does the same for the screen.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by encrypted_bird »

krisoft wrote: post #655
encrypted_bird wrote: post #565

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Serious question as I use an Android device, but do people not purchase cases for iphones? I use an Otterbox case for my phone and it gives it a bezel (though the phone might have had one to begin with—I don't remember).

I have a case for my iphone and the problem I have described is happening even with that on.

That is unfortunate friend. I guess I was wrong. Not all cases provide that solution...
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