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YouTube is testing a new design that you'll probably hate instantly (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13485819

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14192146

A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there's a little something different with the look of the website.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What a strange title. Immediately biases the reader before any actual information is given about the change

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Just give me a grid of videos. No shorts, no games, no BS. Just videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No trust me, it is an accurate title. I thought I was using some shit site hosting YouTube videos at first. It's atrocious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Immediately biases the reader before any actual information is given about the change

As someone who has the "pleasure" to be selected as beta tester for YouTube changes all the time, I fully agree with the headline because I also have immediate bias when they change something. Every single time it has been awful and more often than not I get outright broken changes which is why I have a user agent changer installed to switch to an ancient Edge user agent when affected because YT's legacy UI often doesn't get the same changes.

Also, I'm a YT Premium subscriber. I'm not paying to be a beta tester.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe by setting the expectation that the user will hate the update, when it becomes available to everyone it won’t be as bad as expected and thus more easily accepted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

IDK, seems like a lot of extra work when they could just not make a dogshit UI in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's Google -- somehow they wrote the book on late 90s UI excellence and then proceeded to eat the book.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Whatever take the attention away from the unskippable 30 second ads!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Do you really get those? I don't on PC or Android.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah well. So far enshittification hasn't stopped yet. It's perfectly reasonable to assume a change is for the worse.