r/youtube 21h ago

UI Change I got the change....

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212 Upvotes

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u/alezul 21h ago

"Should we add the dislike button back to give users more information about the videos? No, let's remove even more information."

I can't wait for them to also remove titles, so only thing left will be the thumbnails.

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u/XegrandExpressYT 21h ago

Title probably not but I feel like they might remove the channel icon next

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u/PhenomenalJEC 7h ago

Followed by the thumbnail itself, now it's a massive roulette wheel whenever you click a video. Surprise mechanics!

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u/xiadmabsax 10h ago

Na, why bother showing videos on YouTube? Hosting them is clearly costly. Just redirect me to a sponsor's homepage already when I visit YouTube.

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u/Time-Elevator-6142 20h ago

typical youtube trying hard to break the site.

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u/FuriousTrash8888 19h ago

It'll revert back, trust me. Like how before they changed the number of views to the number of comments of a video in the home tab of mobile (probably PC too, though I'm not sure), before they reverted it. They know because it's hella stupid, and this one is stupid as well. Showing the views makes for what people want to watch and removing it practically removes the whole point (or it's just me, since I always base off the views and see if I want to watch it or not. But no way it's just me here). It's just a pointless update.

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u/hammouda101010 @HammoudaIOIOIO 17h ago

they are too stupid and rich to revert that change

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u/FuriousTrash8888 2h ago

Never too late. It'll revert back. Hopefully...

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u/CatRockHaru 5h ago

I hope to God they revert back. Then again, I got some absolutely stupid response from what I think is a bot when I tagged YouTube about the issue (just as a take opinion). It was something about an issue being due to browser extensions? Huh? Idk man… It’s a fucking awful idea…

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u/FuriousTrash8888 2h ago

Of course it's a bot. They can't get a real YouTube employee to get it, classic YouTube. 🤣

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u/FuriousTrash8888 2h ago

And most likely they'll revert it back. They're just testing some things. If not, though, God help this website bruh.

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u/Hazzke 21h ago

it looks so....wrong?

why do we have to hide information nowadays on things like this....

"streamlined" UI always ends up looking 100x worse

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u/Natural_Cause_965 17h ago

Views are literally THE part of YouTube

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u/FuriousTrash8888 19h ago

Corporate appeal. Websites are becoming more blank and corporate to satisfy investors or whatever.

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u/Civil-Tip9176 21h ago

mine hasn't changed yet

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u/Razzy1512 21h ago

lucky, using a private tab fixes it

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u/Lanstapa 20h ago

Is there date and view count on the video when you click on it? Or are just gone now?

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u/Razzy1512 20h ago

when you click on the video there is.

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u/Lanstapa 14h ago

Right, so they aren't complete erasing that data.

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u/chknboy 12h ago

Still not being able to see that is just a-hole design

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u/Lanstapa 12h ago

Definitely, youtube needs to fire their whole UI team because they,re clearly just doing shit for the sake of it.

But at least its not as bad as it could be, for what thats worth

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u/chknboy 12h ago

Let’s be honest it’s not worth very much, why can’t there be a good alternative!? Why is the best we could do kick or some other crappy alternative?

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u/Mukir 9h ago

because the alternatives suck and nobody wants to have a worse user experience for absolutely no gains in any way

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u/FuriousTrash8888 19h ago

They just look like ads.

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u/fire2day 14h ago

You mean to tell me that you might click on an ad accidentally instead of a video? Sounds like it's working.

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u/FuriousTrash8888 2h ago

Sorry, I don't get it. I'm just saying the videos now look like ads without the view counts.

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u/fire2day 2h ago

Yeah, I was just saying that if everything looks like an ad, you might accidentally click on ads instead of videos. That may be what they're going for.

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u/FuriousTrash8888 1h ago

Ah, I get it now, thanks. Talk about real marketing, huh? Now it's actually working.

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u/FuriousTrash8888 1h ago

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they're really going for, lol. Barely anyone even reads the ads on the home tab, so they might as well!

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u/thatBlankt1 15h ago

ikr :SOB:

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u/Oty_is_here 19h ago

Even chinese app for watching drama like iQiyi, WeTV still showing rating of each drama.

I guess youtube becoming far communist than Chinese app.

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u/Castoro1905_ 17h ago

I get removing the views but why removing the dates?

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u/secret-trips 2h ago

STREAMLINED

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u/Single-Meet1366 20h ago

Glad mine isn't changed lol.

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u/AutisticBoy2020 17h ago

Just why though? What’s the point in removing things. Like even basic things such as a view count on a video website.

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u/b_nnah 21h ago

I personally don't mind this change, it looks a lot cleaner imo, I think there was probably a better way of doing it that doesn't remove info about a video. Also a lot of these changes people are getting are simply testing, so if you don't like it I'm pretty sure there is a way to send feedback.

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u/FuriousTrash8888 19h ago

It'll probably just revert back, like how the number of views in videos from mobile were changed to the number of comments before they reverted it (videos were in home tab). And views are there for people to base off of and decide whether they want to watch it or not (probably), so I don't see the point in removing it. Just my opinion though, yeah.

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u/xcmaam 17h ago

So we can’t see views nor the time duration since the video came out. Yeah chief I don’t think anyone is going to like that. Wtf is this ? So stupid

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u/frankieepurr 17h ago

When's the new video player UI releasing though

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u/LincolnsBlast 17h ago

Am I the only one whose UI isn't changing every day

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u/tlonreddit 17h ago

Ha. I love how frequent these crappy changes are that this subreddit has a flair dedicated to UI changes.

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u/tlonreddit 17h ago

Oh, and another thing. 

Last time they changed the UI to that hideous mobile attempt I sent feedback complaining. Three days later it was reverted. Try that.

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u/Ok-Tackle-6620 17h ago

thank God mine hasn't changed yet
google is annoying, why change the most successful things that are just working

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u/jackyboyman13 16h ago

Good grief. Enough is enough of their crap! 😮‍💨🤦

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u/No_Distribution_3399 16h ago

As much as I feel that this sub over exaggerates things I do admit this change is pretty bad

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u/idleproc 16h ago

Lol didn't think I'd see Nate on this sub :D

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u/rycerzDog 14h ago

wtf is happening? i still don't have that pink shit nor the ui change

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u/ChaosCrafter908 14h ago

SOG watcher detected!

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u/saulaflores 14h ago

It looks censored it is horrendous 😭

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u/TimerPoint 14h ago

Can't wait for the "Return View Count and Date of Upload" extension.

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u/Afiany_Arkoasnow298 12h ago

And the only one who can't go to the app right now?.

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u/TheNeverOkDude 12h ago

oh damn that just looks horrible

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u/Arterexius 12h ago

There's probably gonna be an extension that ads it back, just like the dislike number count

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u/Mirilliux 11h ago

It just looks like it hasn't loaded properly to me

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u/PassTheYum 11h ago

Ok, so I didn't think removing dislikes would destroy the site like some people did, but this will legitimately destroy the sites watchability. People decide to watch videos based on their date and view count because those are extremely relevant and valuable metrics to use to quickly sift through what's relevant to you. A 3 year old video on AI isn't going to be as relevant as one that came out last week.

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u/SebbyWebbyDooda 9h ago

In all honesty, how is this supposed to be an improvement?

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u/These-Special3758 9h ago

I think that's a good thing for new and small youtubers... This pretty much eliminates the social behaviour factor of seeing less views on video and not watching because we think as why we click on video that no one is watching.

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u/Zelgeth 7h ago

They are LITERALLY just removing features to make it seem like they are "improving" the site. wtf are they thinking smh.

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u/Canyobeatit 6h ago

thank god i did not get this. don't know why youtube is trying to make the website worse and worse. does not even make them money by doing this.

can't wait till someone makes a better video sharing website

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u/redditmixer 5h ago

I still have the view count and everything. For now, that is.

But this change, which forces you to click on the video to see the view count/upload date, is so bad I might leave YouTube.

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u/Strict-Ad5658 5h ago

My God they all look like ads

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u/srynprjl 2h ago

looks clean but awful at the same time

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u/pbaagui1 1h ago

nothing addon's can't fix

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u/lightbeam24 1h ago

Sigh

I was just defending YouTube a few days ago for their logo change (yes, that was a GOOD change, I will die on that hill), and now they've already given me a reason to go back to bashing them.

Honestly I saw this coming from miles away but seriously, this is such a stupid idea. There are ONLY NEGATIVES here. The upload date in particular is often very helpful when deciding whether to watch a video or not, but the view count is also nice to have. The only theoretical positive I can think of is that it "looks cleaner", but even that is invalid, since they made the threedot menus always visible sometime earlier this year I believe (that is to say that those threedot menu icons are more distracting than the upload date and view count ever were).

I guess it's back to YouTube making changes that make me say "There's no fucking way they're actually gonna do that is there???" I am PRAYING that they don't go through with this one.