cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13485819
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14192146
A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there’s a little something different with the look of the website.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13485819
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14192146
A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there’s a little something different with the look of the website.
As someone who has the “pleasure” to be selected as beta tester for YouTube changes all the time, I fully agree with the headline because I also have immediate bias when they change something. Every single time it has been awful and more often than not I get outright broken changes which is why I have a user agent changer installed to switch to an ancient Edge user agent when affected because YT’s legacy UI often doesn’t get the same changes.
Also, I’m a YT Premium subscriber. I’m not paying to be a beta tester.
Maybe by setting the expectation that the user will hate the update, when it becomes available to everyone it won’t be as bad as expected and thus more easily accepted.
IDK, seems like a lot of extra work when they could just not make a dogshit UI in the first place.
Whatever take the attention away from the unskippable 30 second ads!
Nah they’ll still hate the update and then call the journalist a shill for trying to put a positive spin on the change.