YouTube Feedback Forum

Good idea, except:
#1. Anonymous does not care about youtube.

#2. Google owns YouTube and has a perfect right to ruin it as they see fit. It is not a dictatorship. It is the equivalent of you staying at someone's house for free and them telling you to take your clothes off while you are inside. It is uncomfortable to be there, but you are free to leave.


I agree that they are ruining the service and that we need to find a way to get their attention. That is why I started THIS forum.

If you agree, please direct anyone you know (who cares) to this forum, so we can find an appropriate method that respects the rights of all parties involved.

thanks.

Hey everyone,

Thanks for coming to the Forum and letting us know what you think of YouTube’s new design. We’ve made a lot of changes to YouTube over the last week and appreciate the feedback you’ve shared with us about these changes. We are confident that, with your suggestions, this new design will improve your YouTube experience in the long run.

Over the past week, we’ve been reading all of your feedback and are working to incorporate many of your suggestions into the new YouTube design. We always do our best to build YouTube in a way that meets your needs.

We’ve been in an ongoing discussion with the team since launch, and want to provide you with an update to address what we’ve noticed and what we’re working on.



Hot Topics:

- X to Remove Videos From Your Homepage Feed
We recognize that consuming videos of Channels you follow and discovering new valuable content is an integral part of the YouTube experience.

We are currently experimenting with various ways to make it easier to keep track of what you’ve watched, and give you easier access to control the content you see from the channels you subscribe to. Over the next month, we will be working on delivering a better homepage feed experience while keeping a close eye on feedback and tracking activity around how features are used.

- Too Much Scrolling
You’ve made it clear that the new homepage layout can be a lot to scroll through, especially for those of you with a ton of subscriptions. To help you keep track of your new subscriptions and recent activity updates we’ve improved the subscriptions management page, which lets you control which subscriptions show by default in the left column (under “Subscriptions”).

With the subscriptions management page and upcoming improvements to the homepage feed (as mentioned above), we think you’ll enjoy the new homepage.

- Centered Design
Though the look and feel of the site has changed, the width of YouTube is actually no different from the previous version of the site and won’t be changing.

As mentioned above, we’re exploring improvements for the homepage feed that we hope will make this new design better and easier to scan.

2011-12-08
- Grey Background
The new background serves as a more subtle backdrop for the other elements on the page - the video, the thumbnail, the search results and related videos - and puts these elements front and center for a better viewing experience. For example, when you hover your mouse over a video preview, a white tile will emerge that will allow you to better focus on the content of that preview.

In more text-heavy areas of the site, we may be able to improve contrast for ease of readability and are currently exploring some improvements.

- Clicked Videos Links
All videos links you’ve clicked should turn dark violet blue so you can differentiate between videos you’ve watched and those you haven’t. We are making this consistent throughout the site to limit confusion.

- Recommended Video Area
Last, but certainly not least, we understand that it can be frustrating if you’re not able to remove content from your homepage (especially if you’ve already watched a video, the video is repeated, or you don’t want to see activity updates from a particular user).

Again, we hear you, and we’ll be working on improving the site based on your feedback.



What’s next?

We’ve taken your feedback to heart, and over the coming weeks the design & engineering teams will be looking at data around how the community uses the new site design as we figure out how to continue to improve on the new YouTube.

In particular, the team will be focusing on ways to enable you to better sort and control the content that appears on your homepage, and give you more context explaining why certain content appears on your homepage.

Please continue to let us know your thoughts. Your experiences are important to us and we want to know what you love, and how site changes impact how you use YouTube. 

Stay tuned as we continue to build on these new features. As always, we welcome your feedback and questions.

Thanks!
Kendall & the rest of the YouTube team

2011-12-08
Hey All - for those of you wanting a similar post like this, only about Channel changes, that is coming! I will post a link to it once it's posted. Thanks!

2011-12-08
For those of you asking about Friends, please see the post in the Sharing & Connecting on YouTube forum:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=5336e41c0fd5ea48&hl=en

2011-12-16
**Changes to Channel page, viewing Subscribers**
We have updated your Channel pages. If you are amongst those wanting to know who is subscribed to you, you now can.

- Visit your Channel
- Click on the Subscription number in the header of your Channel. You can now view all Channels following you as well as how many subscribers they have.

Please note, you can only see the Subscribers connected to your Channel. Clicking on the Subscription number on another Channel will not bring you to a similar screen.

Visit the updated Channels Feedback thread:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4bc40e9dee9c1af1&hl=en

Thanks, Kendall

Do you guys find this forum valuable, even on a morbid "screaming at the wind" sort of way?

YouTube is apparently keeping track of subscription numbers.  If we all bookmark, then unsubscribe from everything, maybe it will get through to them.

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