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YouTube gets material design

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Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125722

I don't like it at all. It feels like it is made for touchscreens. Anything made mostly for touch screens kind of sucks with mouse and keyboard.

I also do not like how the "grids" do not have lines anymore.

The funniest thing is that Material redesigns are often worse for touch. When they gave Chrome a Material overhaul they made the toolbar icons smaller and harder to see. For something that started out as an Android thing it's pretty absurd. Chrome's recent UI overhauls also make it harder to access central features (like extensions) on touch by nesting them in obscure context menus.

The only good thing about this YT redesign is that they finally got around to making Theater mode fill all the horizontal space instead of playing videos in a tiny box, something they should've done 5 years ago.

It looks pretty good but is extremely buggy on Safari. Every so often the page will simply refuse to navigate, no matter what I click on or type into the search bar, so I have to hit refresh to get a "working" page again.

Same issue here.

All those Macs at Google must be running Chrome

Same here. It is indeed unusable on Safari.

There is an option in the top right menu to restore the old YouTube design and leave a feedback.

With Google, I wouldn't be surprized that it could be a mild but intentional attack on non-Chrome browsers. For such a high-profile web application, testing the usability for all their users is a must.

No, it's just Safari. YouTube seems to works alright on Firefox.

Safari is the new Internet explorer. If you use it, you should expect that many things break frequently.

YouTube was never really good at design, UI or UX, so it's no surprise they make it even worse.

I'm really glad they added a dark mode. But performance is absolutely horrible, I don't get how this made it through QA.

Probably the "move fast and break things" approach.

Might just be my machine but it feels extremely "heavy" (slow) in Firefox compared to Chrome. I'm assuming it is some rendering bottleneck in Firefox.

Probably due to usage of polyfills for Shadow DOM.

Now Youtube doesn't even open without javascript. It used to be possible to at least see what the video was about.

I love their detailed explanation of the benefits I will receive from their new logo. What groundbreaking innovation!

I can't quite describe it but the use of #F00 just looks wrong to me. Over saturated somehow

I have a lot of problems on Safari (macOS). It abruptly stops accepting clicks on videos. In the last 2 days, I've had to move to Firefox to browse Youtube.

http://toogl.es is a good replacement and still works.

It's funny looking at the time lapse of the UI and watching white space grow like a contagion across the screen.

I really want them to fix scrolling in the left rail. Frequently it fails to scroll until you explicitly click in the panel. Having to do this breaks the entire point of background scrolling

Except for the comment UX, I like the simplified visuals, and the black top on wide-player configuration.

Also the fat logo typography, it's a detail of smashing consequences. I cannot not see it.

I'm nostalgic for the clean and simple websites before the era of gifs...material design brings back the good parts of that...

Best part about it for me is the dark theme. No more plugins for making it work ! Kinda great for better web.

PS: Did anyone notice the blog's favicon looks a little pixelated.

Let me guess, even more whitespace and less information density. I wonder how much energy is wasted displaying all these useless white pixels.

Thanks goodness they're finally adding playback speed control to mobile.

The only thing nice about the new design is the dark theme.

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