@TeamYouTube responds later that they will reconsider:
> Really appreciate your response, and can see how sorting by upload date is helpful when tracking breaking news. We're sharing this feedback live with our product team
I feel product management from a lot of large companies is often very disconnected.
A semi-random recent example from someone else, Samsung changed contacts list in recent update, so now recently added contacts is above favorite contacts, and it's done in such a way I now have to scroll to get to my favorites... like WTF.
Samsung aren't unique though. Microsoft for example has spent the first few years if each release of their OS usable since Vista, with the exception of Windows 7.
Yes YouTube, I have my browser set to French, but I read and understand English perfectly fine, please stop badly translating English video titles (or force-enabling french auto-dub, it's even worse).
At least I found an extension for this a couple of days ago :
Ive been trying to learn a new language and this feature is awful.
It constantly either translates language-learning videos entirely into english or into the language i'm trying to learn. Despite all settings on my account being set to english, if I include any non-english text in my search query that is enough to get youtube to translate all videos out of english. When it does this, there is seemingly no built-in feature to change this back, other than through addons. And there isn't even an indication that conveys the fact the video title and description are auto-translated, other than maybe i recognize the channel and can tell that its supposed to be in another language.
And part of me thinks, "maybe once i learn enough, such a feature could maybe be helpful in learning a language" But every video ive seen so far thats auto-translated into English is done so quite badly and confusingly. I can't trust the translation.
What’s even the point of this? Is showing random videos really driving up engagement more than surfacing the video I want to watch? This was shocking to me when I first came across it
Yes. They know that most humans typically have poor impulse control, and are easily pulled off task and will fall into an addicting and lucrative loop. Makes perfect sense to show random unrelated shit.
- Community translations
- Integrated in-video polls
- Annotations/Clickable links within videos
- Public precise subscriber counts
Likely a few others I can't remember right now.
Their AppleTV app is super buggy with same bugs for years. Most annoyingly it stars playing same video I already watched a while ago after resuming the device from sleep. It also often zooms-in 4k content after resuming, you have to kill the app to fix it.
It often resumes video at a random location after you paused it, you have to manually rewind it.
Some of these bugs are like boomerang, they come back after a year or so.
From UI perspective, they continue to hide the "recently updated" section, which should list your subscribed content only, and slowly turn it into a TikTok like app, serving you the content they think you need to watch, not the content you subscribed to.
Do you have autoplay enabled? I find it to be quite buggy across all of their apps.
Agree with you about the UX changes. I can easily get to “the end” of my feed and refreshing shows me all of the same videos but in a slightly different order. Definitely feels worse than 3 years ago.
Am I crazy or is "sort by (upload) date" or "sort by most recent" by far the most useful option on most sites that you want to use more than once? (If not the only useful option).
@TeamYouTube responds later that they will reconsider:
> Really appreciate your response, and can see how sorting by upload date is helpful when tracking breaking news. We're sharing this feedback live with our product team
- how important YouTube is in the real world and
- how disconnected the "Product Team" is, by inference from this reply.
A semi-random recent example from someone else, Samsung changed contacts list in recent update, so now recently added contacts is above favorite contacts, and it's done in such a way I now have to scroll to get to my favorites... like WTF.
Samsung aren't unique though. Microsoft for example has spent the first few years if each release of their OS usable since Vista, with the exception of Windows 7.
https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/releases/...
- I got one, "removed the dislike counts"
Yes YouTube, I have my browser set to French, but I read and understand English perfectly fine, please stop badly translating English video titles (or force-enabling french auto-dub, it's even worse).
At least I found an extension for this a couple of days ago :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-tr...
It constantly either translates language-learning videos entirely into english or into the language i'm trying to learn. Despite all settings on my account being set to english, if I include any non-english text in my search query that is enough to get youtube to translate all videos out of english. When it does this, there is seemingly no built-in feature to change this back, other than through addons. And there isn't even an indication that conveys the fact the video title and description are auto-translated, other than maybe i recognize the channel and can tell that its supposed to be in another language.
And part of me thinks, "maybe once i learn enough, such a feature could maybe be helpful in learning a language" But every video ive seen so far thats auto-translated into English is done so quite badly and confusingly. I can't trust the translation.
It often resumes video at a random location after you paused it, you have to manually rewind it.
Some of these bugs are like boomerang, they come back after a year or so.
From UI perspective, they continue to hide the "recently updated" section, which should list your subscribed content only, and slowly turn it into a TikTok like app, serving you the content they think you need to watch, not the content you subscribed to.
Agree with you about the UX changes. I can easily get to “the end” of my feed and refreshing shows me all of the same videos but in a slightly different order. Definitely feels worse than 3 years ago.
Search, the ui, recommendations, shorts, all the new ai features (dubbing, translations, upscaling).