I don't mind the new design... however I understand that people would grow tired of companies trying to post-modernise everything.

Oh really Tasman

Yeah, the site seems to be getting heaps of complaints about it. Wonder if they'll change their minds  

Two days to go  

Seeing as Facebook haven't reverted their layout, I very much doubt that YouTube would be inclined to do so either.

I HATE how when you go to someones channel and click on their videos it plays on the same page, it doesn't let me right click and go open in new tab like I always do   And everyone has videos set to auto play, BANDWIDTH WASTE  

^^^ Yeah I hate that too. I still don't know how they do it either. Doesn't work for me   ...not that I would do it anyway.

Well the 16th went by and nobody looks to have been forced to change  


I do like the new Statistics and Data info for each video  

Quoted from Dara

I HATE .... And everyone has videos set to auto play, BANDWIDTH WASTE  

Yesterday every channel had auto play     ...and now today not  

Strange :S
It keeps reverting back and forth?

Yeah weird stuff is going on there as they keep making changes. But I see all the old template sites are still unchanged.

hey bro...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7UX8KASASU

I'll remember that now...

YouTube redesigns website


    * Glenn Chapman
    * From: AFP
    * April 01, 2010 9:49AM


GOOGLE-owned YouTube rolled out a major redesign aimed at clearing out visual noise and capturing the attention of viewers at the video-sharing website.

"We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter," Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman said at the site's headquarters in San Bruno, California as he provided an in-depth look at the revamped YouTube home page.

"Changes are based on how people actually use YouTube."

YouTube engineers said they studied the way people behave at the website and modified the home page accordingly. The number of links on the page have been cut by more than half.

Information about videos is grouped in one place and one side of the page is devoted to viewing recommendations personalized to what visitors are seeking.

There is a cleaned up "actions bar" for sharing, flagging or embedding videos.

Modified playlist tools make it easier to queue up videos for viewing or skip from one to another.

YouTube also eliminated a five-star ranking system and replaced it with a simple "likes/dislikes" choice for viewers.

It turned out that the vast bulk of ratings entered are five-stars while a meager percentage of one-star ratings get logged and almost nobody rates videos in between, according to YouTube interface designer Julian Fumar.

Makers of videos will get spotlights in YouTube comment forums and be able to add brand names to titles of their works.

YouTube has been testing the new page design with some users for about two months.

The basic objective is to get people spending more time at YouTube, according to Mr Rajaraman.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/youtube-redesigns-website/story-e6frgakx-1225848382896

I rate songs in between..
I hate how they've hidden the comment so I have to click to see them, and I hate how it looks like facebook now. Except it's a bit odd because it looked weird one day but now it's back to normal.
Oh and I hate vevo!