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YouTube gets material design
- satysin 9y agoMight just be my machine but it feels extremely "heavy" (slow) in Firefox compared to Chrome. I'm assuming it is some rendering bottleneck in Firefox.
- butz 9y agoProbably due to usage of polyfills for Shadow DOM.
- emersonrsantos 9y agohttp://toogl.es http://toogl.es is a good replacement and still works.
- acidburnNSA 9y agoThanks goodness they're finally adding playback speed control to mobile.
- 1_2__4 9y agoIt's funny looking at the time lapse of the UI and watching white space grow like a contagion across the screen.
- sctb 9y agoEarlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125722
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- chrisper 9y agoI don't like it at all. It feels like it is made for touchscreens. Anything made mostly for touch screens kind of sucks with mouse and keyboard. I also do not like how the "grids" do not have lines anymore.
- kevingadd 9y agoThe funniest thing is that Material redesigns are often worse for touch. When they gave Chrome a Material overhaul they made the toolbar icons smaller and harder to see. For something that started out as an Android thing it's pretty absurd. Chrome's recent UI overhauls also make it harder to access central features (like extensions) on touch by nesting them in obscure context menus. The only good thing about this YT redesign is that they finally got around to making Theater mode fill all the horizontal space instead of playing videos in a tiny box, something they should've done 5 years ago.
- TheCoreh 9y agoIt looks pretty good but is extremely buggy on Safari. Every so often the page will simply refuse to navigate, no matter what I click on or type into the search bar, so I have to hit refresh to get a "working" page again.
- s800 9y agoSame issue here.
- bluedino 9y agoAll those Macs at Google must be running Chrome
- zenojevski 9y agoSame here. It is indeed unusable on Safari. There is an option in the top right menu to restore the old YouTube design and leave a feedback.
- a-nikolaev 9y agoWith Google, I wouldn't be surprized that it could be a mild but intentional attack on non-Chrome browsers. For such a high-profile web application, testing the usability for all their users is a must.
- pcr0 9y agoNo, it's just Safari. YouTube seems to works alright on Firefox.
- haburka 9y agoSafari is the new Internet explorer. If you use it, you should expect that many things break frequently.
- ateevchopra 9y agoBest part about it for me is the dark theme. No more plugins for making it work ! Kinda great for better web. PS: Did anyone notice the blog's favicon looks a little pixelated.
- philipov 9y agoI love their detailed explanation of the benefits I will receive from their new logo. What groundbreaking innovation!
- gp7 9y agoI can't quite describe it but the use of #F00 just looks wrong to me. Over saturated somehow
- agumonkey 9y agoExcept for the comment UX, I like the simplified visuals, and the black top on wide-player configuration. Also the fat logo typography, it's a detail of smashing consequences. I cannot not see it.
- saticmotion 9y agoI'm really glad they added a dark mode. But performance is absolutely horrible, I don't get how this made it through QA.
- Demiurge 9y agoProbably the "move fast and break things" approach.
- nik736 9y agoYouTube was never really good at design, UI or UX, so it's no surprise they make it even worse.
- denzil_correa 9y agoI have a lot of problems on Safari (macOS). It abruptly stops accepting clicks on videos. In the last 2 days, I've had to move to Firefox to browse Youtube.
- etimberg 9y agoI really want them to fix scrolling in the left rail. Frequently it fails to scroll until you explicitly click in the panel. Having to do this breaks the entire point of background scrolling
- zzzcpan 9y agoNow Youtube doesn't even open without javascript. It used to be possible to at least see what the video was about.
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- ecthiender 9y agoThe only thing nice about the new design is the dark theme.
- Grue3 9y agoLet me guess, even more whitespace and less information density. I wonder how much energy is wasted displaying all these useless white pixels.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoI'm nostalgic for the clean and simple websites before the era of gifs...material design brings back the good parts of that...