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Check out the beta for "lightweight" Youtube, dubbed Feather[1]. It's a streamlined layout without comments or other junk. I've found that the user experience w
by zedpm 13y ago
Check out the beta for "lightweight" Youtube, dubbed Feather[1]. It's a streamlined layout without comments or other junk. I've found that the user experience with Youtube has been steadily declining for several years; this seems to mitigate many of the issues I've had.
[1]http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta
- rplnt 13y agoI only miss the bigger-size player in feather. Still using it though.
- Trufa 13y agoI didn't know about that, can't thank you enough!
- josteink 13y agoSo the fix for youtube breaking perfectly fine comments in a move to push G+ on the unwanting, is to remove comments all together? Seriously?
- TheCraiggers 13y agoPerfectly fine? Maybe you only watch videos in an extremely narrow group, which typically have only the most eloquent and empathetic commenters, but I think most people would argue that comments have been the worse part of Youtube since their inception. Spam, trolls, racists, and flamers were routinely "thumbed up" in comments. And then we have the comments consisting entirely of "exact quote from the video you just watched" which typically have hundreds of thumbs up as well, and add absolutely nothing to any discussion on the video itself. I don't think I'm alone in saying the SNR of Youtube comments was low to the point that I never sought out to read them any more. And when I did, it was more of a "lets see how bad the train-wreck is" mentality.
- conradfr 13y agoStupid comments never bothered me, sometimes they are even funny, that's the beauty of it. Moreover, did Google/Youtube said they pushed the change due to quality of comments ?
- oblio 13y agoThey're funny until you see a gazillion pages of them.
- fluidcruft 13y agoYou don't have to see a gazillion of them if the good stuff is on the first page.
- oblio 13y agoQuote from parent: "Stupid comments" Stupid comments = good stuff? :)
- Anderkent 13y agoThere's two kinds of videos I watch. The first ones are ones I find on the internet, usually immensely popular. I ignore comments on these. The second are videos from my friends, or select channels I subscribe to. These usually have a small viewer base (<10000 views), and in the comments one can actually have a useful discussion. Of course now many of these small feeds say 'Comments are disabled for this video'. I assume it's because the channel owner does not want to link their google+ account, or some technical fuckup - it seems unlikely they'd all change their settings, but I guess it's possible.
- jff 13y agoComments generally get disabled because people were Saying Mean Things. Next time you see that, look at how many likes/dislikes the video has--odds are it may have a lot of dislikes. Or the owner could just be taking a stand against the terribleness of Youtube comments by not allowing any.
- Nickoladze 13y agoI've had YT comments hidden for years with browser extensions. It's quite good.
- zedpm 13y agoIt is for me; if you want to wade in that particular cesspool, that's your choice. I go to Youtube to watch a video and leave.
- babysteps 13y agoNoticed that duckduckgo gives you quite a nice stripped down youtube experience.
- thinkalone 13y agoInteresting - I opted in and will give it a try. I frequently use the https://youtube.com/tv https://youtube.com/tv layout after seeing it on my Samsung Smart TV