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YouTube has removed the ability to search by upload date

72 points by sergiotapia 10mo ago

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SockThief 10mo ago
https://xcancel.com/TeamYouTube/status/2009744367834022320#m https://xcancel.com/TeamYouTube/status/2009744367834022320#m @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
- ncr100 10mo ago
  Kinda gross - how important YouTube is in the real world and - how disconnected the "Product Team" is, by inference from this reply.
  - magicalhippo 10mo ago
    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.
    - 7bit 10mo ago
      I'd don't think they are disconnected. That would just attribute carelessness where malice should be attributes I believe they are intentionally removing these features to push some metrics to increase their bonuses.
    - ncr100 9mo ago
      LOL - great terrible example <3 "the market moves faster than the tech" and in this case the tech is not evolved (e.g. to protect the fact YOU want your favorites at the top) because the PMs may never prioritize it.
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- slurpyb 10mo ago
  The removal of sort by date makes any search result algorithmic and thus can be manipulated to match advertiser or paid boosting. No doubt the team doesn’t want this. It’s just enshittification in motion
Nextgrid 10mo ago
Let me guess, they're seeing less "engagement" with AI slop since people were using this to filter them out so they removed it?
vivzkestrel 10mo ago
- anyone got a list of youtube downgrades from the last decade? - I got one, "removed the dislike counts"
- 2gremlin181 10mo ago
  Search results is by far the biggest one. Now after 3-4 relevant results it just shows shorts and other recommended content
  - samename 10mo ago
    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
    - sockaddr 10mo ago
      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.
    - efilife 10mo ago
      It's been like this for a long time so it must be working. My guess is that fewer choices = easier to choose a video.
      - samename 9mo ago
        But it's not fewer choices, it's worse choices, or more distracting choices.
- LelouBil 10mo ago
  Forced translations. 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-translation/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-tr...
terrycody 10mo ago
Its still there for me, HK IP.
ulfw 10mo ago
Youtube has been getting worse and worse since the new CEO
insin 10mo ago
The `sp` URL parameter for sorting by upload date still works, so I've added an option to restore the Upload date filter to Control Panel for YouTube: https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/releases/tag/v1.27.0 https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/releases/...
Kim_Bruning 10mo 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).
Vipitis 10mo ago
sorting by upload date was the only way to get exact matches in your results, no recommendations, no recent, no relevant, no similar. Basically means no more actual search
RevEng 10mo ago
Why remove this? Who made a ticket saying "Remove sort by upload date"? This isn't something that happens on a whim. What is the benefit to YouTube?
Lio 10mo ago
Textbook enshittification from YouTube. You'll watch what we want you to watch.

72 points by sergiotapia 10mo ago

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https://xcancel.com/TeamYouTube/status/2009744367834022320#m https://xcancel.com/TeamYouTube/status/2009744367834022320#m @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

ncr100 10mo ago
Kinda gross - how important YouTube is in the real world and - how disconnected the "Product Team" is, by inference from this reply.
- magicalhippo 10mo ago
  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.
  - 7bit 10mo ago
    I'd don't think they are disconnected. That would just attribute carelessness where malice should be attributes I believe they are intentionally removing these features to push some metrics to increase their bonuses.
  - ncr100 9mo ago
    LOL - great terrible example <3 "the market moves faster than the tech" and in this case the tech is not evolved (e.g. to protect the fact YOU want your favorites at the top) because the PMs may never prioritize it.
- deleted 10mo ago
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slurpyb 10mo ago
The removal of sort by date makes any search result algorithmic and thus can be manipulated to match advertiser or paid boosting. No doubt the team doesn’t want this. It’s just enshittification in motion

Nextgrid 10mo ago

Let me guess, they're seeing less "engagement" with AI slop since people were using this to filter them out so they removed it?

vivzkestrel 10mo ago

- anyone got a list of youtube downgrades from the last decade? - I got one, "removed the dislike counts"

2gremlin181 10mo ago
Search results is by far the biggest one. Now after 3-4 relevant results it just shows shorts and other recommended content
- samename 10mo ago
  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
  - sockaddr 10mo ago
    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.
  - efilife 10mo ago
    It's been like this for a long time so it must be working. My guess is that fewer choices = easier to choose a video.
    - samename 9mo ago
      But it's not fewer choices, it's worse choices, or more distracting choices.
LelouBil 10mo ago
Forced translations. 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-translation/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-tr...

terrycody 10mo ago

Its still there for me, HK IP.

ulfw 10mo ago

Youtube has been getting worse and worse since the new CEO

insin 10mo ago

The `sp` URL parameter for sorting by upload date still works, so I've added an option to restore the Upload date filter to Control Panel for YouTube: https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/releases/tag/v1.27.0 https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/releases/...

Kim_Bruning 10mo 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).

Vipitis 10mo ago

sorting by upload date was the only way to get exact matches in your results, no recommendations, no recent, no relevant, no similar. Basically means no more actual search

RevEng 10mo ago

Why remove this? Who made a ticket saying "Remove sort by upload date"? This isn't something that happens on a whim. What is the benefit to YouTube?

Lio 10mo ago

Textbook enshittification from YouTube. You'll watch what we want you to watch.