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Re: PETITION To get the OLD YouTube Homepage Back

Saur Jan 24, 2011 9:01 AM
Posted in group: YouTube
 @tjw1963 Then why can't we have Recommended Videos as a tidy module instead of the randomly placed snippets the new Homepage provides?

THIS is the problem. It's not that the information is not provided, it's that the information is a random mess which requires a large amount of scrolling and manual loading to access.

If Recommended Videos is viewed as an important feature, then where is the sense of presenting this information in a segmented, random fashion?
(example below taken from what my page looks like right now);

Subscription Upload;
Liked By
Subscription Upload;
Recommended Videos;
Favourited By;
Subscription Upload;
Subscription Upload;
Liked By;
Subscription Upload;
Recommended Videos;
Favourited By;
Subscription Upload;
Subscription Upload;
Recommended Videos;
- and on and on, via the tedious Load More button.

If a person has a large amount of subscriptions, then a lot of content will end up being missed as that person will not have the time/patience to manually pick through a random stack of content.

It's useless making the point of video Recommendations being useful for gaining views, when the content in question is randomly placed within a huge stack of content which must be manually loaded by the user.

Instead of making these excuses for the layout, I strongly request that you try listening to what people are saying. I have been using Youtube for 6 years, and I have never once found it difficult to track new content - until now with this Homepage.