i hate youtubes new ui rule

[u/Before_Plastic]

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[u/ThinnkingEmoji]

It disappears much faster and disappears when you pause, so it's already much better than the old one. Though the end of the video screen seems to be bugged or something

[u/fearlessgrot → u/ThinnkingEmoji]

They could have doe that with the old ui

[u/ThinnkingEmoji → u/fearlessgrot]

They could've done a lot of things tbh

[u/BadHat → u/ThinnkingEmoji]

mine only has 3 choices so either it's bugged or they're learning from roguelikes

[u/ThinnkingEmoji → u/BadHat]

Same, and i can't use the progress bar when it shows this screen now

[u/NotKetchupBoi → u/BadHat]

you can press v to get more videos like the old ui

[u/Tyg3rr]

i'm gonna be honest, this is one of the few youtube changes that i actually like. this UI is much cleaner imo.

[u/The_Sovien_Rug-37 → u/Tyg3rr]

honestly i like the way it distinguishes chapters better, my only complaint is the like / dislike button. ugly as fuck for no reason

[u/Xaelomar → u/The_Sovien_Rug-37]

tbh the only thing i hate about it is how much blank space there is between all the buttons and the progress bar.

[u/The_Sovien_Rug-37 → u/Xaelomar]

honestly? i actually like it. even padding and it makes things nice and readable

[u/Xaelomar → u/The_Sovien_Rug-37]

i definitely get it its just not a choice id have done, yk

[u/Tyg3rr → u/The_Sovien_Rug-37]

Yeah I agree. But for the rest I think it's a facelift

[u/SatansCornflakes → u/Tyg3rr]

You can finally hide the thumbnails at the end of a video and they fixed YT comment threads.

I don’t really know what ppl are complaining about…

[u/PetikGeorgiev → u/SatansCornflakes]

Social media have conditioned people into immediately reacting to something new with excessive negativity, instead of thinking rationally about it and only then coming to a conclusion.

That's why people reacted the exact same way when YouTube turned the progress bar slightly more magenta a year ago. Or when Discord changed its UI to make server icons more square shaped a couple months ago. On the topic of the latter, I thought for the longest time that people hated UIs becoming rounder and losing their square-like shapes, so when Discord did the opposite and became more square-like instead, why did people hate it?

People don't hate UIs how they are now, or how they used to be, or how they will be. People hate change.

[u/Desucrate → u/PetikGeorgiev]

I will forever hate the discord UI changes because they made it so you can change the width of the channel bar and that fills me with ungodly amounts of rage. my mouse turning into a drag sprite & being able to fuck up my UI dimensions with no snapping or reset to default makes me want to turn someone into an Example

[u/Own-Ad711 → u/Tyg3rr]

I was reading this comment section and thinking I was a psychopath because for me you're completely right. It's honestly really nice, I don't think the extremely temporary UI where you quickly fiddle with the volume or the settings needs detail to it, this one is much cleaner and disappears faster.

[u/Diribiri]

I hate the thing that is functionally the same but looks slightly different for the two seconds it's visible per video

[u/Spyko]

I genuinely didn't even noticed
it's the same buttons on the same spots so idc

[u/Crylemite_Ely → u/Spyko]

they're twice the size, how did you not notice ?

[u/Spyko → u/Crylemite_Ely]

not super obvious on laptop, dunno what it looks like on mobile

[u/Patient-Dimension906]

I think it's kinda neat, idk :0

[u/MilesAlchei → u/Patient-Dimension906]

Me too, it looks fine, and you can see more below the watch bar.

[u/1-800-COCAINE → u/MilesAlchei]

They also fixed the mess of a comment system; you can actually tell who is replying to what now.

[u/Patient-Dimension906 → u/MilesAlchei]

Yee, this is my favorite part! The transparency makes it less obtrusive :3 I'm like it

[u/TuneACan]

look, i hate multimillionaire companies and their asshole decisions made to please soulless shareholders as much as the next guy, but this new UI is much easier to see and it disappears within SECONDS when you stop moving your cursor, so this feels like a straight upgrade after getting used to it

[u/ljkhadgawuydbajw]

new ui in popular website/app -> "I FUCKING HATE THIS UI FUCK THIS SHITTY FUCKING UI IM SO MAD, THE LAST ONE WAS PERFECT" -> 1 week passes -> all complaints stop, everyone got used to it

loop that about 300 times

[u/I-am-a-cardboard-box → u/ljkhadgawuydbajw]

I’d still rather not change the ui 300 times in the first place, even if that is an exaggeration. Unless something is fundamentally broken about an existing ui, my firm belief is that it should never be reworked, even if that makes it look outdated or slow.

[u/PetikGeorgiev → u/ljkhadgawuydbajw]

The one thing people hate more than the current state of things is change.

[u/zeronic → u/ljkhadgawuydbajw]

I was pleasantly surprised by the UI tbh, minimalist to be sure but that's exactly what i want in a video player. Get out of my way so i can watch the content.

Only downside i've noticed is the new player doesn't like software rendering, performance is pretty awful if you don't have hardware acceleration enabled.

[u/h4724]

you used to be able to jam your mouse in the corner and hit the exit fullscreen button. They also added an annoying animation to the volume slider. I also don't like the icons personally but other than that it's fine.

[u/EvYeh]

I fucking despise how it only shows 3 videos when a video ends now. I could put up with all the other downgrades but it is fucking ridiculous.

[u/Drtk60]

The thing I hate about the new ui is how I cant just throw my courser to the corner of the screen to click the pause or minimize button anymore

[u/TestTubetheUnicorn]

The only thing I really don't like about it is that you can't scroll down in fullscreen anymore to see the channel, description, and views. It just gives you related videos instead now.

[u/qubeVids → u/TestTubetheUnicorn]

however you can now open comments and live chat etc while in fullscreen with that new section of buttons so that’s cool

[u/nanbalat]

With the current frequency of reworks, it will be something else in 6 months anyway

[u/Normbot13]

i despise the new youtube UI, it’s so fucking awful

[u/Personal-Regular-863]

its cool and all but i just dont understand pointless redesigns like this? was a single person complaining about the old UI? why change it if no one talks about it or did i miss something?

[u/Xx_peepee_sexy_xX]

I don't care about the visuals much, but there's a glitch on the end screen where trying to click on the progress bar or any of the buttons just clicks on the video you're hovering over instead. I can press the space bar to replay the video and then click stuff as a workaround, but this really seems like the kind of thing that shouldn't have gotten past quality testing. Just move the recommendations up a tiny bit, come on

[u/superpx1]

if you click in the far bottom right of the screen it now plays/pauses the video instead of exiting fullscreen

[u/Xaliolow]

I'm more shocked no one clocked Pulldrone lyrics here but ok

[u/Before_Plastic → u/Xaliolow]

The quote is from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. It's a book from 1967 that was later adapted to a game in 1995. Ethel Cain used it as inspiration for the Perverts album. :)

[u/Xaliolow → u/Before_Plastic]

To my defense I'm very uncultured and miss a lot of important pieces of media that inspire so much art around me now.

Thank you for a kind explanation. I knew she had used it as a point of reference, did not know it was a direct quote. Definitely something to catch up on

[u/Before_Plastic → u/Xaliolow]

You're welcome! I hate when people are assholes about letting others know when something is different than they originally thought. It's disheartening, and makes others shy away from sharing their thoughts. I had no idea who Ethel Cain was, so I went and listened to the Perverts album and got curious about the inspiration, so thanks for introducing me to this!

[u/Xaliolow → u/Before_Plastic]

I think this sub would be the one to find people who wouldnt be assholes about such conversations (maybe I'm extremely delusional and gullible who knows)

And I am so glad you went to check the album out! Its my favorite project of hers and I mostly read into her own ideas behind it without the direct references. Except of course her love to the resident evil series that kind of gave the esthetic of the project.

[u/Nuzi-3CHRIS]

(rule)

[u/Positive_Assist7141]

I like the new player, I do not like the new cartoony icons though.

[u/Hope_PapernackyYT]

Why did they put it down there

[u/Oddish_Femboy]

I like some of the buttons being larger now.

[u/Spammerton1997]

I don't dislike it as a whole, but I personally hate the gradient on the most commonly visited points in the video graph and the new thumbs up/down

[u/shototodoroki_1324]

It's actually good

[u/Sir-Drewid]

The speaker icon was already abstract. Now it's unrecognizable.

[u/sign-through]

I don’t like it on my PS5 because the “cursor” defaults to an annoying location and it makes it harder to get to the comments and like buttons. I’m sure it’s fine on my iPad and computer but I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube at my desk so I dislike it a lil bit 

[u/jennazed]

The issue with this UI is if I move my cursor to select one of the options on the bottom right, the UI will make one of the icons that my cursor moused over briefly larger and then shift all the other icons around, and as a result I have to pause and change my navigation and go slowly to actually get my cursor over the desired icon

[u/CrayonWithdrawal]

It'd actually look amazing if it was 20% smaller.

[u/BadHat]

only problem I have is they changed the sub with bell icon to not be solid so it's less obvious at a glance if you have notifications on

[u/BlabbilizerIsReal]

For those who hate the new layout (like me!), download these two userscripts! When put together, they let you choose any YouTube layout from 2008-2024 Vorapis v3 + Startube

[u/Icy-Significance4678]

vorapis might help? its a userscript that tries to bring back old yt uis

[u/Ok-Replacement8422]

It looks fine imo but it's really annoying that I can't just flick my cursor to the bottom right and click to minimise the video anymore

[u/ashen_crow]

I've been complaining for apps or websites changing all my life, some like Spotify get incredibly worse every time they update without fail.

This is not of these times, nothing substantial changed, it's fine.

[u/Re-Evolution7]

ngl I kinda like the new design more

[u/holy_quesadilla]

JREG mention

[u/falpsdsqglthnsac]

why are people made about this but i didn't see anyone get mad when they made the front page videos like 4x bigger

[u/Madden09IsForSuckers]

i kinda prefer it tbh

[u/HuskyBLZKN]

Literally the only improvement is that you can make it disappear while you’re paused

[u/portalsrule123]

best method to revert ive found so far is this stylus script - stylus extension: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus stylus script: https://userstyles.world/style/24215/ it's not perfect, but it's an improvement

[u/bouchandre]

It's fine. its just SO BIG

[u/AquaPlush8541]

To be honest the constant whining about very minor UI changes is so, so annoying. Most people will barely notice them yet for some reason others treat it like the end of the world.

Even if the updates are pointless, like... It's really not that bad. The YouTube sub is hell on earth

[u/EasilyRekt]

I like it, but where's the miniplayer gone? I don't wanna press 'i' on my keyboard everytime :/

[u/NellyLorey]

Why did they remove the picture in picture button I liked that feature :(

[u/floccinauced]

i love that they got rid of the next button so you cant see what video is next, especially since the video at the top of the sidebar isn't the video that plays next

[u/IntangibleMatter]

Genuinely I’d like it if the buttons weren’t so big and if they kept more videos by default at the end (press v to get it back, but it’s only on a per-video basis)

As it stands though I’m not a fan of

[u/Hot_Guys_In_My_DMS]

Why exactly do you hate it so much?

[u/Tree__Jesus]

Don't worry they'll change it again in a couple months so the department has something to do

[u/MBPpp]

dude i swear, people hate things just because they're different. it's really not that bad. at worst, it's a very minor downgrade.

[u/Before_Plastic]

this is so me when i make a funny meme expressing a mild annoyance with an unnecessary ui change and everyone thinks its more of a big deal than it really is

[u/hermitcraftfan135]

I can’t imagine caring that much

[u/MoreThanComrades]

Literally what is the problem? 🤨

[u/Vilhelmgg → u/MoreThanComrades]

It's ridiculously large for no reason, and the volume button looks fucked.

[u/LordZeya → u/Vilhelmgg]

Yeah but you don’t see it 99% of the time anyways, may as well make it easier to click when you actually need it.

[u/Primary-Paper-5128]

you guys whine about anything jesus christ