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« on: March 11, 2012, 04:32:33 pm »Dear Youtube Design Team,
Many of us have enjoyed your website for many years, and have enjoyed the thriving community that has grown up around your service. But in the past few months, your service has changed. It began with the experiment named "cosmic panda". This was a new look for YouTube, a more polished format. This format eventually took over the entire site.
Although some people like this new look, the overwhelming majority of people consider it to be more difficult to use, and less user friendly. You see, people come to YouTube for different reasons. Most come from other sites, looking for a particular video, and nothing else. Some come to the site specifically to see the content to which they have subscribed. Still others come to randomly browse videos. There are also the people who make their own channels. They customize them and load their videos as a way to express their individuality. These and other types of users are what make the youtube community valuable for your advertisers.
The new gray layout has made it all but impossible for anyone but the random browsers and the specific video watchers, to use your site. The new "one size fits all" channel design allows for much less customization and therefore less incentive for users to express themselves by creating content. In short, you are destroying the very reason that advertisers are willing to give you money. The established community. So, we are begging. Please give us the option to use the layout that makes it easier for us to use your site, the way we choose.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Community
Many of us have enjoyed your website for many years, and have enjoyed the thriving community that has grown up around your service. But in the past few months, your service has changed. It began with the experiment named "cosmic panda". This was a new look for YouTube, a more polished format. This format eventually took over the entire site.
Although some people like this new look, the overwhelming majority of people consider it to be more difficult to use, and less user friendly. You see, people come to YouTube for different reasons. Most come from other sites, looking for a particular video, and nothing else. Some come to the site specifically to see the content to which they have subscribed. Still others come to randomly browse videos. There are also the people who make their own channels. They customize them and load their videos as a way to express their individuality. These and other types of users are what make the youtube community valuable for your advertisers.
The new gray layout has made it all but impossible for anyone but the random browsers and the specific video watchers, to use your site. The new "one size fits all" channel design allows for much less customization and therefore less incentive for users to express themselves by creating content. In short, you are destroying the very reason that advertisers are willing to give you money. The established community. So, we are begging. Please give us the option to use the layout that makes it easier for us to use your site, the way we choose.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Community