Youtube new channel design to be made mandatory on July 15th (12)

1 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-06-27 01:23 ID:dWwQcHBo

On the 15th of July, Youtube plans to change the channel design of every user on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw-NILysH1w
http://uk.youtube.com/blog?entry=Lm2Ai0sw1Io

Just a quick glance at the comments shows how many people feel about this.

And myself, I totally agree with them. The new design makes it difficult to open link in new tabs/windows, it looks nasty, it renders slower, and it's generally more cumbersome to use. Hopefully they'll listen to all the uproar, but I'm really not counting on it.

What's your opinion?

2 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-06-27 01:43 ID:pR60hRrc

Looks awful.
I am disappoint.

3 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-06-27 08:59 ID:XlnvgMdh

It becomes akin to a social website, so it sucks.

4 Name: Nanamika : 2009-07-05 01:00 ID:NoA97NtP

I honestly don't understand what google's obsession with this kind of "browsing experience" is.
I mean, sure, it's fancy and "cool", but the functionality is less than its desired for. =/

5 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-07-06 06:18 ID:vU/dW0NZ

Eh. I don't particularly give a shit.

6 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-07-06 13:48 ID:Heaven

people actually use that "channel" shit?

7 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-07-06 14:45 ID:dWwQcHBo

>>6
The 'channel' is basically a user's page. If you've looked at someone's user page to find their videos, you've used a 'channel'.

8 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-07-06 15:23 ID:Heaven

>>7
who cares who uploads a video? if a video isn't good enough to stand on its own without some idiot's ego attached to it i don't want to see it.

9 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-07-07 23:22 ID:dWwQcHBo

>>8
Well, if a particular person is uploading a lot of stuff you're interested in, you might want to check through all the stuff they've uploaded. This process is made more cumbersome thanks to this redesign.

10 Name: heh man!fi.Jek4HW6!!gGKYHXFO : 2009-10-14 01:13 ID:vwhpPCam

Bumping for no reason

I actually think the beta channel looks kinda decent if a bit cluttered. I wish they would let user's have a choice between the old channels and new channels.

11 Name: Benni : 2009-10-16 10:12 ID:LzVTi8qY

It looks nice but still using the functional old design

12 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-10-27 20:53 ID:FCxkYZmq

i typed something here but the captcha was wrong apparently and i can't be arsed typing it all out again

in summary-

  • new design looks nice
  • some usability issues they probably should have sorted out already
  • one being how its harder to open multiple videos in tabs
  • many sites act like this, apparently out of some belief that people never want to open stuff in a new window/tab - opening something to look at later then coming back to it to find a blank window with some bullshit javascript command in the url bar is v. annoying
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