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YouTube's New Hue

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Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by ripped_britches »

thamer wrote: post #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 operat…

Seems off topic. Do you actually think these designers have anything to do with spam detection?

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by parhamn »

A bit off topic, but I noticed get this weird feeling when my cursor changes style. Something between a "let go of [free] my cursor" and "I wonder what secondary state I accidentally activated". It creates a weird sense of distress. Might just be me.

Though I did find it cool how it inverts the underlying thing. I thought it was a text-clipping type css property but it seems to invert media too? Any ideas how thats done?

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by throwaway314155 »

thamer wrote: post #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 operat…

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRd_wNHJG4o

It's somehow substantially less surprising to me that a video deep dive on cryptocurrency has these comments. Youtube should address it, but to a degree it's very much expected/comes with the territory.

I don't follow cryptocurrency on YouTube (and in fact I made sure to "not interested" the link you posted, no offense). Anyway, I don't follow crypto and as such haven't had the issue you described.

YouTube comments have been and always will be a cesspool. You should consider yourself luck that they actually improved quite a lot (at least in terms of toxicity and "stupidity") when the thumbs down button was nerfed.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by carlosjobim »

jsheard wrote: post #24
cft wrote: post #3

There's a big opportunity to build apolitical uncensored clone of YouTube. Current alternatives lack funding and don't function well

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.

Major television news media have been globally banned from YouTube due to war.

Free debate on covid-19 and the vaccines were suppressed and banned on YouTube. Maybe still is, I don't follow that.

Those are probably the biggest censorship issues with YouTube. And more are probably to come, as the world spins around.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by ziddoap »

thamer wrote: post #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 operat…

>I guess changing red to red-ish magenta was apparently more important than addressing the widespread issues that have been plaguing YouTube for years.

I have a suspicion that the color and design folks are not the same people in charge of comment section spam/bots.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by throwaway314155 »

daft_pink wrote: post #70

How 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.”

Sorry, how exactly is that implying a monopoly? They're talking about the color palette... If anything this just means YouTube is relatively "finished" software.

Of course i don't disagree that they are in fact a monopoly. I just don't think this post about colors is somehow a dog whistle for it.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by throwaway314155 »

cpeterso wrote: post #77
atonse wrote: post #16

I 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?

That tracks.
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