Why does google keep changing youtube to make it worse?

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#1 Pffrbt
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Where in the hell do I find my inbox?

And why are topic titles limited to 60 characters when that's practically nothing and it just lets you keep typing past that.

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#2 Lone_Wolf_Lance
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Youtube is constantly evolving, that's why it's always changing. If something isn't evolving it means it's dead. You don't want youtube to die now, do you?

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#3  Edited By JustBeYourself
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It used to be that videos buffered for me and I could just roll back the slider and rewatch it without it needing to reload (meaning I could even watch it offline) but now it reloads everytime I rewind, grrrr.

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#4 Pffrbt
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@lone_wolf_lance said:

Youtube is constantly evolving, that's why it's always changing. If something isn't evolving it means it's dead. You don't want youtube to die now, do you?

No, I just don't want it to be frustrating shit.

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#5 TAMKFan
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I remember not liking the most recent change they made to YouTube channels, but I have gotten used to it. It does feel like they change that too often though.

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#6 MarioFan264
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I haven't noticed it changing to be worse at all. Aside from it wanting me to make a Google Plus account to comment on videos. I don't understand that, but I don't need to comment anyway, the site works perfectly fine aside from that, as it always has.

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#7  Edited By kemar7856
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they keep changing my account to intergrate google+ I keep saying no but today they just said screw you and changed it anyways now I cant view comments or favourite videos

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#8 Fightingfan
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@kemar7856 said:

they keep changing my account to intergrate google+ I keep saying no but today they just said screw you and changed it anyways now I cant view comments or favourite videos

Yeah, like anyone even uses Google+ LOL

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#9  Edited By deeliman
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@Pffrbt said:

Where in the hell do I find my inbox?

And why are topic titles limited to 60 characters when that's practically nothing and it just lets you keep typing past that.

http://www.youtube.com/inbox

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#10 Stesilaus
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@lone_wolf_lance said:

Youtube is constantly devolving, ...

Fixed. :-)

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#11  Edited By Makhaidos
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Even though it's about Facebook, I think you need this reassuring video from George Takei:

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#12  Edited By AmazonTreeBoa
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They keep prompting me to use my real name and I keep saying no, but they keep bugging anyways. I had to make a google+ account just to continue using my Youtube. I made it and have never been back to it. If I have to make some useless google+ account and forget about it to continue using Youtube, then so be it.

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#13  Edited By dominer
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Google be so anal.

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#14  Edited By TheFlush
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There's no notification system when you get a new comment. Your inbox is buried quite deeply.
The whole left side navigation bar is still irritating to use after all this time, I can't get used to it.
I dislike the fact that the player size option is tucked away in an options menu.
The old space panda edition looked better and was better UI and UX wise.

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#15 Jimn_tonic
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The format is so bloody boring! it seriously looks like workplace intranet, just blank white void.

i also don't how your homepage is bombarded "more from channel (x)" kthx but i can click on a channel to see it, youtube. i don't need your help.

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#16 xWoW_Rougex
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Youtube is absolutely horrible. Everytime they change something, it's for the worse.

Recently they've integrated "disable comments & change resolution & change window size" into one popup menu so instead of just clicking "disable comments" I now have to click on that stupid pop up menu and then disable comments with a second click. Yet that stupid completely unused "watch later" button is still taking up space. It's frustrating how they took the 3 most used buttons and made it require more work to use them.

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#17 deactivated-5ed92e29dd85a
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I like how they allow for people to use a Google+ page as a YouTube Channel name, since many great usernames were wasted. I also like how I can have a Google+ page in another language and possibly even have symbols in it, making it much better than a username. Although some may disagree, I feel there should have never been a username system when YouTube was first introduced in my opinion, people should have been able to pick any name they wanted and have their YouTube account differentiated by a code like Google+ has done; provided I think it would have been better if YouTube had this option, but was never bought by Google.

Although I like the idea of using my real name, I realize I can never do it; so the times that I did have a Google account for YouTube related things, I had my real name in Katakana instead of English. I'd probably like the banner idea if they allowed for it to be a bigger banner and allowed for a background also.

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#18  Edited By dramaybaz
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Step 1: Earn billions

Step 2: Negotiate with Google

Step 3: Buy youtube

Enjoy any format you want.

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#19 Gaming-Planet
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Youtube is so buggy now and less intuitive.

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#20  Edited By megagene
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If they ask me one more damn time if I want to use my real name on the site, I swear I'm going to flip a table over. The worst part is when you refuse, that isn't the end of it. They just go, "OH, OKAY. WE'LL ASK YOU AGAIN LATER."

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#21 The-Apostle
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For the same reason Gamespot keeps changing and making it worse? OH!

Yes, I went there...

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#22  Edited By Lance2500
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@megagene said:

If they ask me one more damn time if I want to use my real name on the site, I swear I'm going to flip a table over. The worst part is when you refuse, that isn't the end of it. They just go, "OH, OKAY. WE'LL ASK YOU AGAIN LATER."

This. This x1000.

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#23 Ice-Cube
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@JustBeYourself said:

It used to be that videos buffered for me and I could just roll back the slider and rewatch it without it needing to reload (meaning I could even watch it offline) but now it reloads everytime I rewind, grrrr.

This is the one Youtube change that I absolutely hated.

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#24 touchscreenpad
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Before the videos buffered completely.

Then they don't.

Before the videos don't rebuff when you click/seek on a part.

Then they rebuff every time you click/seek on a part.

Before I can easily locate my inbox.

Then I have to click a seemingly non-related link just to see where my inbox is.

But I like the quality settings...though I'm not sure whether that was already available before. I think it was.

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#25 Netret0120
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When you own something, you can do whatever you want with it.

Hope that answers your question