It being the 1st April and -allegedly- the day my school breaks up for the Easter holidays, I did wander if that was all going to be one big April fools prank. Thankfully, it wasn't.
Right, better spend the holidays revising then.
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I was going to end this blog right there and then, but having seen what YouTube has done to itself I feel the need to rant about it. Feel free to bear with me.
Personally, I seriously dislike this new layout. Firstly, I don't understand why they got rid of the sidebar, which was easy and simple and a good way for a vlogger to laugh at his or herself if they pointed in the wrong direction. Where is the fun in just pointing up or down? Secondly, I think that putting some of the info under the video title is far less aesthetically pleasing than just the video title on its own. Frankly, this layout is ugly and now I'm going to be looking at the Next in subscriptions box thinking that's where I'll find all the info.
Thirdly, I don't see what was wrong with the star rating; I may be over critical but I'd watch some videos think 'well some bits I loved but that bit sucked' and rate it three stars, to let the uploader know it wasn't bad, but could be better. Not something everyone is interested in, but I would be on my videos.
And while you can still like peoples comments, you can no longer see what other people rated them -except for the top rated ones. So if someone wanted to thumb up a comment they liked particularly funny, or thumb down a comment they found particularly offensive, well now they can't. The only thing that seems to have been improved is the embed option, although I haven't tried it yet so for all I know it could be no easier.
The next-in-subscriptions-bar is convenient, but I never ever felt the need to complain about clicking the YouTube logo at the top of the page to go back to home so I could click on the next subscription. Its almost like YouTube are taking its users, such as myself, as idiots.
Agree? Disagree? Leave what you think in my Twitter! Links in the Sidebar.
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"I don't know what to do, stuff it." - Rick C
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