Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    view counts, I’m okay with. I do want to see how old a video is and how long a video is.

    I watch niche stuff on Youtube. I watched a guy copy an old ISA adapter card for the very first CD-ROM drive. That’s not gonna do BeasTiePie numbers, and I don’t care. It isn’t information I use to select a video. I think it’s useful information to have generally available, but I don’t necessarily need it on the home screen. It should maybe be displayed on a channel’s Videos page, where there’s more screen real estate per video, and in the video’s description header.

    Date uploaded is pertinent information. Is this a recent entry in a series I enjoy? Is this breaking or old news? Has ANOTHER 10,000 people died in a hurricane or is this just a month old? Is this from before ThE iNcIdEnT, or after?