> What if I want to go straight to the channel? This was possible, once. What if I want to highlight and select some of the text from the preview? I can’t. Inst

> What if I want to go straight to the channel? This was possible, once. What if I want to highlight and select some of the text from the preview? I can’t. Instead, the entire preview, rather than acting as an integrated combination of graphics, text, and hypertext, is just one big, pretty, stupid, button. When designing user interfaces, you need to think about all sorts of users. When less precise input methods (touchscreens) are involved, or when your users might have issues with precise use of a mouse (and YouTube targets people of all ages and abilities), making everything lead to the same place is much better than some parts of the row leading elsewhere and potentially confusing users. If you’re searching for a channel by name, it should get its own entry on the list. > We were shopping for a card for a friend or relative, in the standard Library of Congress-sized card section in the store. Looking at the choices, comprehensively labelled 60th Birthday, 18th Birthday, Sister’s Wedding, Graduation, Bereavement, etc., he commented, Why do they have to define every possible occasion? Can’t they just make a selection of cards and I write that it’s for someone’s 60th birthday? You can certainly find plain cards. You may need a more generic card if you’re targetting an unusual occasion (say, 31st birthday). But the _wedding_ card has wedding-related imagery and a pre-written cringy text, whereas the _bereavement_ card is less happy and more appropriate for that occasion. I can’t draw, but the card company can hire artists to draw something nice on the card for me. > This is a list of the processes that the operating system has launched successfully. It runs through it every time you start up. I see more or less the same thing now, running the latest version of the same Linux. It’s a beautiful, ballsy thing, and if it ever changes I will be very sad. You may be able to see that something went wrong — or not, because it scrolled off the screen too fast. You may be able to tell that it’s still working — but you can’t tell when it will finish. Measuring progress is not always easy. Google probably opted not to, since they expect this to only take a couple of seconds, so instead of inventing a way for the conversion service to report progress to the few users who may care, they just show an indeterminate animation.