YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design
YouTube is testing a new web video player UI after almost a decade. Check out the redesign and see what users are saying about the changes!
Havent seen it, I know I'll hate it. I have never seen a UI redesign by any company that was actually good. Maybe once, but couldn't remember them for the life of me.
Youtube has had multiple redesigns over its lifespan, and I'll bet you probably do prefer the last one over their original 2005 UI.
Absolutely. A particular bugbear of mine is the "Continue as $username on $TV?" drag-up panel at the bottom when it detects another TV on the same network.
No YouTube, I'd have clicked that big fuckoff cast button in the top right if I wanted people to see my Celine Dion addiction in sixty diagonal inches. Worse still, you have to swipe away the panel before clicking on any other link or tappable object in view.
It's not just the once either. Fuck off.
e: and another thing, fuck your shorts too. I'll watch them when I actually want (and bear with me here) short form content, not crowbarred into my search results like an algorithmic equivalent of someone wearing a white dress at someone else's wedding. Fuck all the way off.
I want the snake game on the loading screen back :(
Especially Google
Never before have YouTube users hated a new (worse) design
Honestly, the new design fixes the one thing that's bothered me about the old player for years, which is the shading it applies to the bottom portion of the video when the UI is open. If I want to pause to read some text at the bottom of the video, I'm just out of luck because it's basically blacked out the bottom of the screen for no discernible reason. This new UI is a lot cleaner in that regard.
My beef with this new design is that it needlessly takes up more space. It's comical when the video is small; the scroll bar can be near the middle of the video sometimes. And on top of this it feels slower and less responsive.
I watched a letterboxed video earlier and it cropped the black bars and made my video a little narrow strip at the top left. I thought I was losing it then it started beachballing in an attempt to keep up with it's own micromanagement horseshit rather than, you know, playing a video.
They made an artistic decision on content they don't create, just host.
It's fucking goofy.
Idk about this new design, but I have noticed you can't select an option to never show a channel again anymore. That's some major bullshit.
pipepipe
Increase Padding!
I REALLY LOVE how the fucking notification tab in Firefox on my computer doesn’t show who fuckin actually made the goddamn video now, you hafta know by the icon. They’d really fucking sweet. Also it still has “Uploaded:” and that’s serially still necessary. Good and cool, you shit rubbish platform that keeps sucking more every day.
Looks like it's designed for Youtube's movie and shows offerings, given the prominent "jump to next segment" button. Always ironic how far away from "broadcast yourself" we have gotten.
Overall, I don't hate it.
Users always hate when you change anything in established UIs so this doesn't really tell you that much qualitatively about the UI itself.
You have to wait for a while for sentiments to settle before people actually figure stuff out. Until then, you just kind of have to rely on your UX skills to evaluate the UI (and monitor metrics of course)
On first glance I think it looks nice. It's just a little sharper and more of a modern style choice.
Users reporting issues with the volume scroller have a point and hopefully that's addressed. I do dislike when features are removed because the only aim is to be "simpler"
Honestly in my opinion it doesn't look too bad but I would lessen the margins a little and also fix the audio slider.
