Elysian Shadows

Is absolutely fucking awful. Not only can I not find ANYTHING, but they did away with the 1-5 star rating system. Now it's just thumbs up or thumbs down. A SIMPLE BOOLEAN? Videos aren't just good or bad. There's a gradient, and this is just stupid.

Now the description of a video isn't even fully visible until you click the mini description and have it expanded.

I feel like this entire thing is in response to Facebook getting more views than Google search. Google is trying to make Youtube more "social networking" oriented, and in the process they're fucking everything up.

Please be an april fools joke.

Lord Pingas wrote:Please be an april fools joke.

I wish....


I totally agree with you on this one. These changes are completely counterproductive.

WTF is with text-only mode? They now have a feature to stream you the video in text in order to save 1 dollar in bandwidth cost per second...

Lord Pingas wrote:Please be an april fools joke.

I hope so...
THIS IS HORRIBLE!!!

And once again, YouTube has shown us it can stoop lower.

Lamez

I saw this last night, it's confusing as hell. Also, if you watch a video, it no longer tries to find similar videos to your topic, but rather videos with the similar names in the title. For instance, I was watching a live Korn video and usually I can find others from the same concert on the sidebar, now it just shows 20 other videos of the same song. That's dumb.

The new youtube is utter nonsense, the system is completely fucked.

The new layout is real, but the TEXTp is obviously an April Fools joke. It IS pretty cool though.

FFFFUUUUCCCCKKKK!!!!!!!! Why youtube, why!!!! This is just pathetic, who thought this was a good idea?

I use a greasemonkey script, "Youtube HD Ultimate". Basically, it makes the video stretch to the size of the browsers window AND plays the highest-quality version (Though you can select which one to play).

Naturally, it's gone completely foobar now =[ I miss that script.

Bah.

I can't fucking navigate anymore.

Seriously...I've been unable to rate, comment, favorite, or subscribe for over a week now.

GyroVorbis wrote:Is absolutely fucking awful. Not only can I not find ANYTHING, but they did away with the 1-5 star rating system. Now it's just thumbs up or thumbs down. A SIMPLE BOOLEAN? Videos aren't just good or bad. There's a gradient, and this is just stupid.

Now the description of a video isn't even fully visible until you click the mini description and have it expanded.

I feel like this entire thing is in response to Facebook getting more views than Google search. Google is trying to make Youtube more "social networking" oriented, and in the process they're fucking everything up.

Yeppedy yep yep, I complain in every comment I post, I've actually sent several complaints on how awful I think it is.

I'm going full on vimeo, and I'm going to brainwash my friends, and everyone on facebook to do the same :D

Yuck. That's all I can say. Just, yuck...

I was really hoping this was some awful April Fool's Day shit - which would have been a horrible joke to begin with - but nope, it's real.

The admin section still shows the 5 star rating system. Are they just going to discard all of that data? Or does it somehow translate to their new like/dislike rating?

booooooooooo.

Bullshit. Absolutely no functionality gained whatsoever, as a matter of fact one could argue it hurts functionality. Change for the sake of change is the ultimate idiocy.

I hate it!
I looks ugly, it feels clumsy and I cant even look at the video description without shifting all the comments out of sight.
And every time, the video description is a little bit longer than usual ( like the one from the Elysian Shadows Revolution: Episode 2 ) it just shifts everything far away and out of sight =/

The only real cool thing is the new viewer stats, so you can see from where the viewers came and so on.
I want my old style back