Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the squeezing-the-pipes dept.
techmuse writes "YouTube has introduced a new, higher-resolution text mode for video. The new text mode is far more efficient than their previous high-end, high-definition offering, and should bring entirely new levels of realism to streaming web video!"
Re:Really?
by
ottothecow
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Unfortunately, it also looks like they are pushing through the new page design which I am not a huge fan of.
The *glaring* problems have been fixed, but the way things are placed does not seem as smart to me...particularily the video description. It should be to the side of the video...especially on wide screen displays. Often it will have lyrics or something you want to read while the video is playing and you can not do this with a longer block of text (or with any text on a netbook screen).
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Re:Really?
by
jrmcferren
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Oh Please don't remind me of that, not the OMG Ponies! thing, but the fact that I was stupid on that day. For a while first posts were getting modded up, I decided to start the first post stuff as myself. Later the mods started modding the trolls as trolls and my Karma hit rock bottom. In fact I think I'm still paying for it as I have to wait 10 minutes or more between posts, then again there may have been trolls on using an open WiFi I once had.
Unfortunately, it also looks like they are pushing through the new page design which I am not a huge fan of.
I've talked to a dozen people today about the new layout, and not a single person liked it - not the laymen, not the designers, not the programmers, nobody. The words "clusterfuck", "illegible", "wanky piece of shit" and "it's an April Fools' joke, right?" had been uttered.
Judging by how this thing looks and behaves, they probably haven't done any real usability testing, and they've partly left Opera out in the cold (videos now require "click to activate" and vertical centering is off on all "buttons", which is going to piss off tens of millions of people by itself). The comments are extremely hard to read, there are no borders, there is no colour, there is no real element grouping, ratings are binary shit... I'll be monitoring design/usability experts in the next few days to see what they have to say; I'd be extremely surprised if anyone found enough positive things about the new page design.
To be fair, the old design wasn't so perfect, either, but the new one has improved on very few areas.
I think they'll have to roll it back, or redesign the redesign, because the outburst is fairly significant.
Re:Really?
by
ottothecow
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Unfortunately, it is not a new thing.
I had a computer that was stuck in their beta test (until I figured out what combination of logging out/clearing cache and cookies would get rid of it). The layout was similar although they had some even worse features. The search tried to dynamically shrink the currently playing video (to the a small box in the top left) to display the search results next to the recommended videos...this simply did not work for me (firefox on ubuntu). The first search might sort of work but after that I would have to first go to the youtube homepage (search box would become non-responsive otherwise). Also, videos would frequently refuse to load, even if the same video in embedded mode played fine (or played fine on a system not running the new layout). Another hated change was the automatic play of the next video on the right hand side--you could disable it, but only per session...leave youtube and come back and it is back to autoplay.
There were a few posts about it on the youtube blog and the comments mostly seemed to hate it (although in the youtube language of "f this crap you are all idiots who cant design shitzzz"). There was an opt-out link that didn't work (and mention of an opt out link that should be on every single page in the new layout but I could never find it). Looks like they at least fixed SOME of those problems before releasing it into the wild.
I can still see a few clear formatting bugs (firefox, winxp) but at least the videos actually play...
I know, they selected me as a beta user some time ago, and I happily deleted the cookies responsible for that monstrosity. There have been some improvements since then (most notably, URLs now look like URLs, instead of 524987-character garbage, and not everything is a playlist), but it's still garbage. If you picked a random person from the street, they would probably be able to design the page better and in a more usable way.
I honestly have no idea what they tried to accomplish with this, and why they haven't hired someone knowledgeable to do the design...
Oh come on why not do it properly and port aalib to flash.
-- 0x or or snor perron?!
Could have done it for real...
by
alephnull42
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· Score: 2, Informative
This technology exists e.g. http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Text_Mode_Doom - would have been way cooler to actually implement the option permanently than just upload this Video
-- Not confused enough? http://translate.google.com/translate?u=www.slashdot.jp&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ja&tl=en
Re:Could have done it for real...
by
Deag
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· Score: 4, Informative
Gotta hand it to them. They usually manage to make their joke something entertaining rather than the boring stuff most other sites tend to come up with.
Apparently Youtube isn't the only one - Slashdot is finally killing off their buggy Web 2.0 interface and supporting real web standards. They'e waiting until tomorrow to announce it by first letting everyone overdose on the stupid flash "roulette chat".
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this is actually cool. i hope its not one of /.s April fools jokes
Its not my fault, someone put a wall in my way.
No more flash needed!
Oh come on why not do it properly and port aalib to flash.
0x or or snor perron?!
This technology exists e.g. http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Text_Mode_Doom - would have been way cooler to actually implement the option permanently than just upload this Video
Not confused enough? http://translate.google.com/translate?u=www.slashdot.jp&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ja&tl=en
Gotta hand it to them.
They usually manage to make their joke something entertaining rather than the boring stuff most other sites tend to come up with.
Apparently Youtube isn't the only one - Slashdot is finally killing off their buggy Web 2.0 interface and supporting real web standards. They'e waiting until tomorrow to announce it by first letting everyone overdose on the stupid flash "roulette chat".
Finally, YouTube for us Lynx users.
Are the ASCII images 7-bit clean?
Not all of us can afford 14.28% additional bits, you insensitive clods!
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Still doesn't work in links/lynx :(
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