[zaarn]

>Do you remember hiw bad YouTube comments have been?

Yes

>And it's significantly better lately?

It's gotten worse and a few youtubers I follow have simply disabled it in recent time (less than 1 month ago was the most recent one)

Normal conversation on youtube is barely possible since the algorithm randomly decides to not notify me of responses anymore or removes entire comments from my view that other people reference and I'm left wondering what is going on.

The only good thing about youtube comments is that I can remove them easily with a plugin.

[mgkimsal]

> Normal conversation on youtube is barely possible

It's also interface. I've been notified of replies to comments, click the notification, and I'm not taken to the reply. This happens to me on mobile enough that I've basically just given up trying to engage for most things on youtube.

[overcast]

Happens on the desktop too. It's impossible to respond or follow up to anything on there. You'll get notified of unrelated comments, you're not able to respond to a specific person, everything is just in one parent thread. I've since blocked comments from even displaying.