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[The Real Abed]

Also on the subject of the logo, yeah I agree with this person:

Has less character. Screws with the pleasing balance of black, red, and white. Makes the text look too heavy.

It's bad. Not as bad as many modern logo changes, but a definite downgrade.

The bold text distracts way too much. My eyes get drawn right to it when I should be looking at the content. They could just drop the text completely and it would be better than this. The old one was better than this.

 

[SystemBug]

meet the new boss

same as the old boss

minimalism is a cancer on art design

lol nice try

 

[CassSept]

Did they change the shade of red used on the front page? I swear I feel like it's a brighter hue than before.

 

[The Real Abed]

meet the new boss

same as the old boss

minimalism is a cancer on art design

Nahhhhh.... I've used iOS 6. Minimalism is great.

 

[WillyFive]

New logo is terrible, what a terrible choice of font.

 

[Regulus Tera]

>>Vertical Videos


Evil won

 

[SciencePilot]

The new web app is so good. Dark theme and the fact that it resizes really well on small screens are really great.

 

[admiraltaftbar]

The new mobile app scaling is great. Between that and the picture in picture brought with 8.0 I'm pretty happy with Google's changes.

 

[BigDug13]

Vertical videos are the future, sorry grandpa.

Only if TV companies start making it easy to turn my TV sideways.

 

[The Real Abed]

Does the mobile app have a landscape UI yet? I fucking hate that I need to rotate my phone (A large 5.5" screen) to navigate then rotate it back to watch. Just let me put the phone lying down widescreen and keep it like that. The navigation UIs for their mobile and TV apps are really really bad. It's so clunky and cumbersome to navigate long lists of videos or subcriptions. On the desktop, that stuff is in a grid. Grids can be navigated faster since you can not only move horizontally to go forward and backward in time, but vertically to skip forward by ~5 videos at a time. Makes finding stuff much easier. But on the mobile app, all the videos are one long continuous list. On the TV app it's also one continuous list. Wanna find something posted 3 days ago? Have fun scrolling for a while. Come on, YouTube. Put grids on the mobile and TV apps. At least the TV app.

Hire me, I'll make the UI more usable.

The only saving grace is that I can link my laptop browser to my TV and use the computer to find the video then send it to the TV. But I shouldn't have to do that.

 

[Zero-ELEC]

reminds me of

Am I crazy?

Yes.

 

[Zeyphersan]

I only hate change when they make it more friendly for fucking vertical videos!

They aren’t gonna go away, might as well make them less terrible to watch

 

[Vuze]

I wish the iOS app allowed PiP. Twitch app has this feature and it's awesome.

Sign up for YouTube Red Premium Plus Prime and you might be able to use a default OS feature that Google deliberately went out of their way to disable in their app!

 

[I H8 Memes]

Looks like they finally gave back some the real estate on the right side of the page when you search. There was almost no spot you could middle click on the page to scroll without accidentally opening a video you had no interest in watching.

 

[LiK]

Sign up for YouTube Red Premium Plus Prime and you might be able to use a default OS feature that Google deliberately went out of their way to disable in their app!

I'm a Red member already! I don't believe the PiP is int he app or maybe this update will work. I'll check after I update.

 

[CyclopsRock]

Hey guys, guess what? Sometimes vertical formats are better for videos

 

[Vuze]

I'm a Red member already! I don't believe the PiP is int he app or maybe this update will work. I'll check after I update.

(I was being sarcastic, sorry if I got your hopes up lol. It's just unbelievable they locked background playback behind a paywall so I wouldn't be surprised if PiP was another paid feature at some point however.)

 

[trixx]

Vertical video support nice, logo change not so much

 

[The Real Abed]

reminds me of

Am I crazy?

I think you just want a cigarette. They don't look the same at all.

 

[Chase Lebowski]

So... now how do I update Youtube Center on Safari? I need to disable the black background you have when you watch videos in a large size.

 

[What did he mean by this?]

Material design is ugly

 

[-griffy-]

The new red is damn bright.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Yeah, but most aren't.

If your recording with your phone camera it is. And phone cameras are likely the most common recording device these days.

Why not have those videos shown how they were recorded?

 

[LiK]

(I was being sarcastic, sorry if I got your hopes up lol. It's just unbelievable they locked background playback behind a paywall so I wouldn't be surprised if PiP was another paid feature at some point however.)

Yea, I'm just happy I get no ads on mobile cuz I watch most YT there now. The ads from some of my fave channels were becoming ridiculous. Gotta make money.

 

[Souzetsu]

The new red is damn bright.

That was what I first noticed when I loaded the site this morning. Then I thought "Uh oh, Google is changing things again..."

 

[Scully Scully Scoo]

The annoying thing about YouTube is the lack of picture in picture support for ios and why the hell is dark mode not a thing, i found a way to activate it through developer tools but shit like this should be standard.

 

[daviyoung]

reminds me of

Am I crazy?

Why haven't they made a Marlboro branded PacMan?

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Because viewing vertical videos on a horizontal screen (computer, TV, etc) sucks ass. Horizontal video works everywhere.

You don't really view vertical videos on a horizontal screen 8/10 its on a phone

And vertical videos work everywhere too.

 

[D4Danger]

it was right there.

 

[Funky Papa]

Stage6 died for your sins.

 

[Neuromancer]

Deleting every vertical video on the site would have been a better option. Unless you're an alien with one eye on top of the other.

 

[Zombie James]

Trying to edit a playlist still kicks you back to the old interface :/

 

[Junior Mint]

Yeah this shit is terrible. Although I guess everything about the app has always clashed with iOS. From the fonts to the animations to the UI elements like the toggles and back arrows. Nothing in google apps seem to work the way you expect an iOS app to work

 

[Chase Lebowski]

Deleting every vertical video on the site would have been a better option. Unless you're an alien with one eye on top of the other.

AHAHAAH yeah, I get the joke because no one here is an alien with one eye on top of the other...
Definitely not me.

 

[Caayn]

The Home, Trending and Subcriptions buttons at the top are removed on desktop

 

[mlclmtckr]

I can't believe they kept the camel caps.

 

[CyclopsRock]

I don't understand how anyone can form a strong opinion one way or the other on that logo "change".

 

[Sou Da]

That's pretty bad looking.

 

[Vashetti]

Is there a dark theme for the mobile app?

Nope, at least on iOS.

 

[dallow_bg]

If your recording with your phone camera it is. And phone cameras are likely the most common recording device these days.

Why not have those videos shown how they were recorded?

Read what I was responding to (and had bolded) .
They stated if the action that was being recorded was a vertical action, aka, something that arguably makes sense for recording vertically.
Most aren't.

I'm fine with the app showing the videos more suited to how they were recorded though. Less space wasted.

 

[TheOMan]

Megaton right here for me.

Am I missing the sarcasm? I feel like that's been around for ages.

 

[starry sonata]

Speeding up videos is a super nice feature for being able to catch up on backlog of YouTube videos.

 

[-griffy-]

Am I missing the sarcasm? I feel like that's been around for ages.

Only on desktop. It's new to the app.

 

[Intheflorsh]

That's pretty bad looking.

People are usually hyperbolic about logo redesigns, but this one actually sucks.

 

[Jafku]

I wish background playing wasn't relegated to YouTube red. Sucks

 

[nekkid]

Only if TV companies start making it easy to turn my TV sideways.

Why do people equate short videos of people's lives to shooting movies or TV?

It's fine that the two orientations complement the different subject matters.

Moaning about it is just 'old man shouts at cloud'.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Vertical video makes me mad. I hate our stupid smartphones.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Downgrade total

 

[Schrade]

As a side note, they redesigned their tv/console app and it's hot garbage. There's no way to log in to a sub account on it - it's literally not possible when it was possible in the last version.

What do you mean by sub account though? I was able to switch between all of my different accounts.

Edit: Nevermind. You were talking about the TV/Console App. My mistake.

 

[Mister_Ruck]

I wish background playing wasn't relegated to YouTube red. Sucks

When YouTube was a default app back in the early days of iOS it was free. Kinda impressive that Apple lets them get away with charging for a default feature of iOS. Guess they don't have a choice. Android users would be SOL either way though I suppose.