> TeamYouTube has confirmed that they are working to bring the sorting options back to the platform. Furthermore, they said that the options were removed due to some issues.
It's not clear if they wanted to remove it and reverted due to backlash, or if there were genuine technical issues/limitations that needed to be addressed.
It used to be a drop-down box, now it's pill buttons that (confusingly) are usually used for filtering rather than sorting.
So I'm assuming it was something to do with the UX rewrite getting in the way.
OK this kind of grandiose framing makes me giggle
This is amazing, I wanna use it someday. Were the issues technical? Maybe. Were the issues problematic decision makers who've been overridden? Also maybe.
We'll never know
"We'll show them ads in the logout menu. What are they gonna do? Switch to Linux?"
I can't even imagine what can be a technical limitation to break sorting on something what worked for more than a decade.
The default sort (which is reverse chronological) is more likely cached than chronological order. It could be that it's not really about if it could be done but assuming this is really a good-faith problem it could be that the chip crunch made optimising performance a priority and removing effectively-uncacheble (or alternatively space-consuming) chronological order did remove some pressure.
I dunno seems clear as day to me... Like what are the odds the company that processes the largest amount of data in the world on a daily basis can't sort some results by date.
How messed up does your DB schema need to be that you have issues with ordering entries by date?
Some things that are easy with one DB, get surprisingly hard when you scale up. Lets give them the benefit of the doubt regarding technical issues here.
I'm guessing they'll end up killing it.