After months of planning and testing, the Internet’s No. 1 video-sharing site, YouTube, launched a new look and received mixed reviews. The redesign eliminates one of the chief irritants to tubesters: clutter. “We heard from users that there are a lot of unnecessary features and clutter that could be cleaned up,” said YouTube spokesperson Chris Dale. “Video is the center of our universe, and it’s the center of the user’s universe, and that is much clearer in this redesign than it has been in the past.”
It is sad that this article is writing on behalf of google/youtube's benefits, and not on the actual reaction to the new concept. This is the age where the media can be bought, the actual opinions of average users are never expressed. Furthermore we have congress trying to pass internet restriction bills. They fear the voice of the people getting any upper hand, and the internet is one of those stronger sources. I hope youtube stops pushing its agenda and listens to its users. We made youtube by support, and we can break it by a lack-there-of.
This is absolute garbage. Let's just forget all about the techies, geeks, and nerds and make things just a bit more geared toward the average user. Now anyone who knows how to turn a computer on can also choose between like and dislike. Oh boy...
What about people like me who still use the internet for what it was originally intended? The sharing of information? Are we just screwed? Do we have to watch useless tutorials all the way through now, because we have no indication of what rating it has? People like us that are looking for specific content for informational purposes are screwed.
I guess Hollywood and the music industry, and some fags webcam interview is more important to YouTube than the people who make their technology possible.
I rarely comment on articles but this one compels me.
This article contradicts itself right off the bat. The title says "draws mostly cheers," then the first paragraph states "received mixed reviews." Do you proofread anything on this site?
I agree with the other comments here. This article is just repeating the same information from the horse's mouth. Where are your citations and research, besides what Youtube and a random user told you?
It's quite sad that the horrific new layout is the best that the web designers of a billion dollar company could muster after eight months. That's a level of incompetence COMPLETELY UNPARALLELED!
It all boils down to incompetent managers who constantly need to change things so it looks like they're doing something. They change things that don't need to be changed, label it as an "evolved" product, and slop it on their resume so they can climb the corporate ladder.
This article is nothing more than a fluff piece. Stop spraying perfume on a turd and pretending like it's a beautiful product. It's not. It's amazing how few honest articles I've read about the new layout. YouTube must be doling out a lot of PR money.
I'm with the commenter above. Where are your citations? Where's this proof of your article? Just do a search on YouTube and you'll see that people absolutely hate this new design. Hell, there's even people who've never made videos before coming out to protest the crap they've put out.
I can't believe that you'd write an article that's so obviously wrong and post it on this site. This is a professional website by the looks of it and therefore commands that the truth, especially when it comes to technology, be spoken so that people can make wise choices about their consumption of it.
Please don't write anymore articles until you can provide citations for your claims.
Really, general feeback is positive? Bullshit. Cite your sources. Cause I can. Go to the YouTube blog, the google support forums, or user profile pages themselves. Or better yet go to YouTube's very own youtube profile to see that the majority of feedback is negative. Why you would try and make it seem like this is being heralded by the users as a good thing is beyond me but it smacks of lazy journalism.
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YouTube's New Look Draws Mostly Cheers
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. April 1, 2010 09:17 AMAfter months of planning and testing, the Internet’s No. 1 video-sharing site, YouTube, launched a new look and received mixed reviews. The redesign eliminates one of the chief irritants to tubesters: clutter. “We heard from users that there are a lot of unnecessary features and clutter that could be cleaned up,” said YouTube spokesperson Chris Dale. “Video is the center of our universe, and it’s the center of the user’s universe, and that is much clearer in this redesign than it has been in the past.”
What about people like me who still use the internet for what it was originally intended? The sharing of information? Are we just screwed? Do we have to watch useless tutorials all the way through now, because we have no indication of what rating it has? People like us that are looking for specific content for informational purposes are screwed.
I guess Hollywood and the music industry, and some fags webcam interview is more important to YouTube than the people who make their technology possible.
This article contradicts itself right off the bat. The title says "draws mostly cheers," then the first paragraph states "received mixed reviews." Do you proofread anything on this site?
I agree with the other comments here. This article is just repeating the same information from the horse's mouth. Where are your citations and research, besides what Youtube and a random user told you?
It's quite sad that the horrific new layout is the best that the web designers of a billion dollar company could muster after eight months. That's a level of incompetence COMPLETELY UNPARALLELED!
It all boils down to incompetent managers who constantly need to change things so it looks like they're doing something. They change things that don't need to be changed, label it as an "evolved" product, and slop it on their resume so they can climb the corporate ladder.
This article is nothing more than a fluff piece. Stop spraying perfume on a turd and pretending like it's a beautiful product. It's not. It's amazing how few honest articles I've read about the new layout. YouTube must be doling out a lot of PR money.
Shame on you, TechNewsWorld.
I can't believe that you'd write an article that's so obviously wrong and post it on this site. This is a professional website by the looks of it and therefore commands that the truth, especially when it comes to technology, be spoken so that people can make wise choices about their consumption of it.
Please don't write anymore articles until you can provide citations for your claims.