New Youtube Layout

tastybasslines · #1 12-02-2011, 01:36 PM

What do you think?

The new color scheme is much easier on the eyes than the harsh white. I like the pinning of your favorite channels on the left, it's almost like a remote...So far so good.

Sonic_Death · #2 12-02-2011, 01:56 PM

I was going to post a thread about this actually.

I'm pretty adverse to change in the beginning, so right now I am not loving it. The new home page isn't too much, but I dislike the new setup for profiles so I am sticking with the original version for now.

There are some useful features to it and customization settings, but it's such a vast change from their old format that it is hard to judge.

All my clicking patterns have gotten messed up in the past couple of days with Google changing their "toolbar" first and now Youtube's new layout. I think I'm more mad about the Google part.. I thought it was much easier how they had it before.

tastybasslines · #3 12-02-2011, 02:21 PM

One change they made was removing the show rating attached to a video,so that they can expose you to new channels and vary the content you watch. This annoys me because it allows you to make a strong educated guess about the quality of the content you will be watching by seeing the rating gauge and now that has been taken away.

But, I found this Chrome extension so you can reverse it.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...dnhideeiapohgi

Kwesi · #4 12-02-2011, 02:27 PM

The new layout is AWESOME! Absolutely love it. The only problem I've encountered is my feed loading videos other than the ones uploaded by those I'm subscribed to despite having the box checked. I'm sure that'll be fixed with time. The only real issue I have with it currently is that it only seems to show one upload per subscriptions where as the old layout would show up to 4 or so vids that were last uploaded by that person. Not the worst change in the world but I'd much rather have that back instead of the recommended videos column because it made it easier to see what I missed, if anything.

Overall, I give it an A- so it's all good.

WashburnBasser · #5 12-02-2011, 03:19 PM

I don't really like it. The bar on the homepage seems like nothing I'll ever use, and the whole website seems to be loading much slower for me now. It seems more focused around competing with hulu and tv now, which I really don't like. I hope they let us switch back to the old layout, but I'm doubtful.

Also the new favicon is terrible...

jabsys · #6 12-02-2011, 03:34 PM

I hate the design and it seems when they changed over it stopped me from being logged into my youtube & google apps accounts at the same time

HaRd · #7 12-02-2011, 04:36 PM

Good and bad... It looks like its trying too hard to be facebook'ish. I also don't like how my subscriptions are organized by date added and not by the author with the most recent 4 showing.

That's got to be my biggest gripe because I usually have things in que (in my mind) to watch when I get a chance. Now I feel like I'm missing a lot of things from bigger subscriptions that post multiple videos a day.

BassPlayer900 · #8 12-02-2011, 05:01 PM

I don't have an account on it, but I still like watching stuff on YouTube, and the new layout is cool. It was weird to get used to at first though.

tastybasslines · #9 12-02-2011, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by HaRd

Good and bad... It looks like its trying too hard to be facebook'ish. I also don't like how my subscriptions are organized by date added and not by the author with the most recent 4 showing.

That's got to be my biggest gripe because I usually have things in que (in my mind) to watch when I get a chance. Now I feel like I'm missing a lot of things from bigger subscriptions that post multiple videos a day.

True, you can only see the last upload by a channel, but the channel view is pretty nice and you can see them all in there if you want.

For example, this stops 40 ESPN videos per day from annoying me and making me wade though all the results.

Rage1331 · #10 12-02-2011, 06:15 PM

SoonerMatt · #11 12-02-2011, 06:57 PM

I like the new color scheme and while I didn't care for the navigation at first I've since gotten over it.

BassMom88 · #12 12-03-2011, 06:05 AM

Tried to take the tour of the new features, but they must be closed

I was told to try again later.
Saw that some other users organized their uploads into playlists (which I believe is something new) so we did that too...seems to make it easier visually if you have more than a dozen or so and you still have to option to click on "view all".
Really like the "pinning" feature too.

Sonic_Death · #13 12-03-2011, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by BassMom88

Tried to take the tour of the new features, but they must be closed

I was told to try again later.
Saw that some other users organized their uploads into playlists (which I believe is something new) so we did that too...seems to make it easier visually if you have more than a dozen or so and you still have to option to click on "view all".
Really like the "pinning" feature too.

The playlist feature has always been around. In fact, you may recall in the past while watching a video that in the recommended videos section they usually include playlists near the top.

BassMom88 · #14 12-03-2011, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonic_Death

The playlist feature has always been around. In fact, you may recall in the past while watching a video that in the recommended videos section they usually include playlists near the top.

I try and keep up...but I'm usually the last to know

I have seen playlists...but had never really utilized it much at all and hadn't seen uploads organized that way on channel home pages before. It shows up now under "uploads" almost like an album book with pages...kind of a neat way to organize. We put hers into 3 Lists: Covers/Transcriptions, Live Performances and Grant Project...when you click one it expands into all the videos in that list. I really like that it can do that! I'm pretty easily amused though

**jmattbassplaya** · #15 12-03-2011, 12:09 PM

I haven't really figured it out yet so I can't say for sure, but so far I'm not a fan. It seems to take longer to navigate.

Dirk Diggler · #16 12-03-2011, 01:08 PM

LOL nice one Rage 1331.

It's all Google to blame, big brother now owns everything.
Dirk

Jinro · #17 12-03-2011, 05:16 PM

Aesthetically, I like it. Performance wise, I hate it. This, as well as the Google search's (especially their image search) update and Flash in general, lags Opera like crazy. Chrome lags slightly less. I ditched IE and Firefox because they're both RAM hogs. I have 2GB of RAM, which should be enough for everything except extreme gaming, so I don't understand why these updates are messing with my browsers.

carlos840 · #18 12-03-2011, 06:53 PM

not a fan either, to much stuff going on!

and he non stop advertising before videos is really getting annoying!

Fassa Albrecht · #19 12-03-2011, 06:56 PM

YT is beginning to suck.Hard.

TheEndIsNYE · #20 12-03-2011, 09:23 PM

When I saw it, I was first like

then I was all like

Even Google's layout changed and I hate it!