What Changes would you Make for Youtube.com?

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Zeema

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as title say's

I personally would like to have a comment section in which you can't comment in till you watch the video in full.
Saying the Word 'FIRST' disable's you to comment for a day or something.
Changing the layout of youtube, During earth hour you could turn the White background black and the black layout was Awesome.
The Song 'Never goin give you up' is made a Perma Ban

what would you change or add?
 

tharglet

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I would make it so playlists are properly linked into the site again. I hate going to a channel full of playlists and not easily being able to click a "play playlist" button... seriously what's up with that?
I'd also make it so you can add a playlist to another of your playlists (e.g. the default "watch later" one).

I would turn off the default of having the last uploaded(?) video play when you view a channel page. It's incredibly annoying.
 

CleverNickname

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Trezu said:
During earth hour you could turn the White background black and the black layout was Awesome.
This, so much this. They also had it on and off before for some videos (no idea what the criteria was). Videos simply look better on black backgrounds, how does the largest video site on the net not know that? Well, I'm sure they do, they just like the clean white look better. And they hate user-friendliness, options and anything else that's not a self-promoting gimmick.
 

Layz92

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The black background was pretty excellent. I would go for the old dropdown for finding your favourites etc. Old one was much simpler. Also simply stop altering the damn site altogether. It works, leave what isn't broken alone.
 

Simeon Ivanov

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I'd bring back the star system, but with 10 stars now.
Also, more profile customization, like background color, or style or ... well something cool :D
Also, I'd do something about that um ... when you click on your profile at the upper right corner. Something about it just bugs me.
 

Lilani

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Layz92 said:
The black background was pretty excellent. I would go for the old dropdown for finding your favourites etc. Old one was much simpler. Also simply stop altering the damn site altogether. It works, leave what isn't broken alone.
I perfectly agree. Hulu has a function called "dim lights," where everything around the video will significantly darken, making it much easier on the eyes. Surely it's not THAT difficult of a function to put in. If they can get the Nyan-Cat video to have the wondrous Pop Tart Cat fly across the progress bar, surely they can add a button toggles a background fader.

And I couldn't agree more on the adjusting the layout thing. It's as though after all this time, they haven't figured out what people want. Simplicity. Not long ago, they had a layout that made making your Favorites list nearly impossible. Who the hell thought that was a bright idea? Finally after more than a week they got it fixed, but my God. I thought Google owns YouTube now. How can THAT many outrageously smart people not figure out what people use the most and that maybe, just MAYBE, they want to be able to find those functions with ease.
 

aba1

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The ads made me stop going there almost completly at this point so that I suppose
 

Private Custard

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TestECull said:
2: Remove the automated copyright system and replace it with a team of lawyers that tell industry execs to fuck right the hell off on 99.9% of the videos they want muted. Unless there's a link in the description allowing them to download the audio, or the user uploading it is profiting off of it, then I honestly believe fan-made music videos, lyrics videos and the like fall under fair use. Not only that but it would keep people's home movies from getting fucked over because there was five notes of Enter Sandman playing in the background.
A thousand times this.

I got my first major legal warning yesterday for using a track by Chase and Status in a flight sim video. I was forced to watch the most fucking condecending video on copyright law and then answer some multiple choice questions before I could have my account back.

The baffling thing is that I uploaded another FSX musical montage at the weekend, using a track by the same artist and from the same fucking album, yet there were no problems!!

We just don't know where we stand.
 

Scizophrenic Llama

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Lilani said:
Layz92 said:
The black background was pretty excellent. I would go for the old dropdown for finding your favourites etc. Old one was much simpler. Also simply stop altering the damn site altogether. It works, leave what isn't broken alone.
I perfectly agree. Hulu has a function called "dim lights," where everything around the video will significantly darken, making it much easier on the eyes. Surely it's not THAT difficult of a function to put in. If they can get the Nyan-Cat video to have the wondrous Pop Tart Cat fly across the progress bar, surely they can add a button toggles a background fader.
There was a time when youtube had a dim lights function for like a month. For some reason they got rid of it, I was rather annoyed. Darker videos can be watched so much easier with a function like that.
 

Coraxian

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Amongst other things posted above I'd make it easier to follow what the comment contained that someone was commenting on. Not that it's hardly ever worth it, but when there is a worthwhile discussion going on, it can sometimes be hell to track it when it's spread out over months.
 

Scarim Coral

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Let see-
When you go on a channel, depending on that channel layout, it should not automatically play the video (I'm looking at you Machinima!)

Get rid of that rubbish attempt at subtitling the video base on what being said, it useless. They should edit remove it and invest a greal deal on making it work or don't use it at all.

Getting rid of the troll like comments.

Getting rid of those copyright, fair use and legal stuff.
 

SoulSalmon

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I'd replace the player... having to RELOAD an ENTIRE video merely to load it in "fullscreen" mode sucks, The Escapist has a much nicer player...

Also, the limited time Earth Hour colour scheme was WAY better.


Trezu said:
The Song 'Never goin give you up' is made a Perma Ban
Fuck you, a fair few people legitimately LIKE listening to Rick Astleys songs, permanently banning someone for uploading or listening to a song has to be the dumbest idea in this thread...

TestECull said:
1: Remove the ads entirely. They make it impossible to browse.
2: Remove the automated copyright system and replace it with a team of lawyers that tell industry execs to fuck right the hell off on 99.9% of the videos they want muted. Unless there's a link in the description allowing them to download the audio, or the user uploading it is profiting off of it, then I honestly believe fan-made music videos, lyrics videos and the like fall under fair use. Not only that but it would keep people's home movies from getting fucked over because there was five notes of Enter Sandman playing in the background.
3: Invert the colors. Black background --> White text is easier on the eyes than white background --> Black text, and it will focus more on the video anyways.
4: When you're in full screen and you click on a new video, the page for that video is added to your browser's history. I can't count how many times I've surfed past an awesome video, or one I wanted to comment on, when in fullscreen mode only to find it nearly impossible to get back to it.
5: VEVO gets to DIAF.
6: The old channel style will come back. The new one still blows.
7: There will be no limits on subs in either direction.
8: Sending videos is only possible if the two users in question are friended. This should curb all the annoying spam videos that get tossed around.
9: There will be no facebook integration.
10: The support forum will be moderated.
11: Going fullscreen retains the same video quality the non-fullscreen video was playing in.
12: Favorites and inbox will have a link at the top of the page that, when clicked, takes you directly to those pages. No drop down menus required.
13: By default ALL videos on a given page will load, not just the first fifty. This may be re-enabled in your options if your computer sucks too much to handle it.
14: Subscriptions will update properly.


In short I'd pretty much just revert it back about four years.
Roughly this, I wouldn't want the ads removed ENTIRELY but the minute-long unskippable ones need to be gone, I've had ads longer then the video I was trying to watch on numerous occasions.
 

aba1

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ash-brewster said:
aba1 said:
The ads made me stop going there almost completly at this point so that I suppose
Just use Mozilla Firefox as your browser and get the adblocker + plugin. Gets rid of the ads and problem solved.
I meant the ads that play before the video begins which that doesn't block
 

FalloutJack

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No comments, no likes or dislikes, no bullshit copyright video disablements.
 

LITE992

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When browsing through comments, any comments with replies will have all their replies underneath the original comment, indented to distinguish them from regular comments. You can expand and collapse the replies if there are a lot of replies to a comment. This will stop people from having to go to all comments and Ctrl+F to find the conversation.

Also, VEVO can fuck off and die.
 

philip1228

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ash-brewster said:
aba1 said:
Just use Mozilla Firefox as your browser and get the adblocker + plugin. Gets rid of the ads and problem solved.
SHHHH The admins don't like the word ad-block around here.

On topic: Make it like it was before Google bought them out. It was better in many ways.

Also, make it so a YouTube account doesn't HAVE to be a Google account, I really hate having to sign out of my YouTube account to check my Gmail and vice versa.
 

LuckyClover95

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Black back round would be more environmentally friendly, see blackle.com
Also, I want to be able to press play playlist as somebody said.