Good god these lines of excuses really disappoints me from YouTube. These are the issues I'm really bothered by from the past few years, as an avid, paying, YouTube audience:
- Removal of annotations
- Removal of fan-submitted subtitles
-- (Not specifically few years) Limited choice of subtitle format. There is no way for dynamically placed/formatted subtitles, worse than FTA TV has available
- Removal of dislike counts
- Wildly varying recommendation quality, worsening a lot in the past year/6 month
-- Shorts. It's a pretty good product and there's a lot of good content, but the recommendation engine kneecapped it.
- No watch queues in the mobile app, even after 1 year of release on desktop
-- Inconsistent experience of queues in YT desktop, please just automatically queue any video i play so it continuously play, instead of having to queue -> play it
- Inconsistent sort by capabilities, especially no way to sort my own downloads (come on shouldn't list/playlist component be same/similar??)
- UI/UX obsession with line-count capping text. Component can be varying height and it's fine! I can't sort through all the great and free conference talks because the complete title is never readable on any view except when I open up the video.
- Bitrates. <<% wants 4k, most of the audience wants higher bitrate.
- Removal of annotations
- Removal of fan-submitted subtitles
-- (Not specifically few years) Limited choice of subtitle format. There is no way for dynamically placed/formatted subtitles, worse than FTA TV has available
- Removal of dislike counts
- Wildly varying recommendation quality, worsening a lot in the past year/6 month
-- Shorts. It's a pretty good product and there's a lot of good content, but the recommendation engine kneecapped it.
- No watch queues in the mobile app, even after 1 year of release on desktop
-- Inconsistent experience of queues in YT desktop, please just automatically queue any video i play so it continuously play, instead of having to queue -> play it
- Inconsistent sort by capabilities, especially no way to sort my own downloads (come on shouldn't list/playlist component be same/similar??)
- UI/UX obsession with line-count capping text. Component can be varying height and it's fine! I can't sort through all the great and free conference talks because the complete title is never readable on any view except when I open up the video.
- Bitrates. <<% wants 4k, most of the audience wants higher bitrate.