YouTube is so ass these days. It's the UI for me that turns me off. It's simplified yet it somehow also fails to communicate essential information.
I use the Youtube app on my old smart TV. One of the things that bothers me the most is navigation. Navigating the side bar makes every option load in its entirety as you scroll down it. Want to resume a video you already partially watched? You have to scroll to “Library” to get to your history. But you can’t just scroll there and get it over with, because just going down the menu means having to wait for every single page between “Home” and “Library” to load. What should be a quick, “click down four times, click right once, start video” becomes, “click down once, wait. Click again, wait. Click again, wait. Click again, wait…”
I see no reason why we can’t navigate the side menu without having shit load every time we click. If I wanted a preview of what’s available, I’d just choose that tab and go from there. If I’m trying to navigate to something specific I want to watch, it’s like YouTube goes out of their way to make it a pain in the ass.
YouTube should never have been an app in the first place.
A game I like to dip my toes in has a game mode called 'shorts'.
So searching for 'Trackmania Shorts' is a Wilde card if you get relavsnt info, or 5 year old videos rimmed into shorts.
youtube has to cater to the new gen of brainrotted kids with the attention span of a goldfish with adhd
I use notube, youtube and youtube music in one app ad-free and on tv trizentube cobolt. You can block shorts in their settings as well. (Android phone and androidTV)
Is notube currently working fine? The past week all the newpipe forks have been borked :(
How is everyone in here suddenly a YouTube connoisseur? "I only watch super important videos, shorts are not information". Fuck off. YouTube has always been a website to waste time on with stupid memes. I've seen lots of entertaining, funny, interesting shorts. I'm over 40, so not a zoomer. But yeah you go ahead and watch a cartoon and pretend it's high art just so you can do some generational culture war "these kids today with their short shorts"
I blocked them with an extension in Firefox and it has improved my YouTube viewing experience, well, back to how it was before shorts, but still not quite as good as it was when we could still see downvotes.
You can block them on Android in YouTube morphe too (the successor to revanced which is on its way to being abandonware atp)
If your computer is doing something you don't like, change it so that it doesn't do that. It's YOUR computer.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-youtube-shorts/
what would you choose as a big ass copoeate multi-billion conglomerate
•Consumer Satisfaction
It's asinine because you could already upload short videos if you chose to
Install Revanced or Morphe. Delete ahorts from app. Profit
I agree but from google's perspective siloing shorts off into a separate app would have meant nobody using it and it dying in a year by forcing it into YouTube's regular algorithm they're forcing everyone in their captive audience to engage with them which makes the experience measurably worse but is nice for somebody whose job relies on metrics I'm sure
I have strong ADHD and no self control. will spend all day on short form content if I can. and I hate it.
Revanced saved me. thank Revanced
Shorts is the most braindead form of content. No important and worthwhile information is going to be explained in less than 30 seconds. Block that shit.
I create content but not for any form of monetization or trying to be popular, I just like to make things that are useful. I'm not happy about it, but my most successful video ever, 40,000 plus views was how to fix a lighter. YouTube automatically made it a short because it was under a minute.
I crapped that video out in about 20 minutes... Meanwhile the videos I put dozens of hours into get maybe 3, 4, 5, 600 views
There are some that are a couple minutes long, but those are mainly cropped sections of longer videos
Ha ha, look at that guy who thinks that the users ' interests are of any concern to social media companies.
It's also funny looking at it from the other side, from youtube creators saying they feel pressured to make shorts because shorts are so popular right now.
They're only 'popular' because youtube is pushing them like crazy on everyone they can. Youtube is manufacturing the demand, and creators feel the need to cater to that demand.
I hate shorts!
How dare you besmirch the traditional clothing of my people! (Australian adult males)
No Shorts for me, thanks. ReVanced.
PipePipe is also great at filtering shorts.
FYI Morphe is the new ReVanced
Getting Revanced to remove shorts and ads is a must.
Even if you were to pay YouTube, you can't remove the shorts.
I don't know what you are talking about because I've had an addon that removes shorts for years now.
I use revanced so I can block them entirely.
Most devs have abandoned Revanced because the owner is an asshole. They've started a fork called 'Morphe'. Revanced is allegedly carelessly stealing code from Morphe, including using AI to "copy" patches from Morphe to Revanced, but the Revanced subreddit and discord mods are suppressing all mention of Morphe.
The only way to use youtube anymore
Also smart tube on the tv, my one complaint is that movies don't work on that one.
That's because the movie streams are encrypted and cannot be watched on third party apps. And even worse, YT is now experimenting with encrypting all the videos... Only reason I know this is because my account was unluckily chosen in an A/B test and I couldn't watch anything on VacuumTube or SmartTube...
That's very annoying. It's only a matter of time until all workarounds stop working and youtube becomes completely unusable
I'm able to watch the movies on revanced without ads
Oh no that works fine for me too, but it only works because it's technically the "official" app except it's just patched. Everything else like the apps made for TVs and such will not work with encrypted streams. I really hope they don't go through with it. I quite enjoy casting stuff to my steamdeck and second monitors.
I use a grease monkey script to redirect shorts links to regular videos.
But I also only watch videos from preexisting subs and never leave the subscription tab now
Same, I have a couple of extensions to fix youtube. No ads, no shorts, no recommendations, no autoplay, no "most relevant" whatever the fuck yt thinks that means, then keyword filters and auto-hide played videos. The subs tab is just unwatched stuff from the people that interest me.
When it becomes too hard to keep up with fixing all of the shit they break each update to try to make free users' experiences worse, I'll leave before letting them push anything on me I don't ask for.
The only shorts I like are the ones I'm wearing.
I don't mind them too much. I also don't watch a lot of them and I especially don't scroll through them. But I like that they (usually) get right to the point instead of waffling about and I don't have to block any ads.
And contrary to sentiment elsewhere in this thread, some are really informative. If someone’s feed is filled with brainrot I feel bad for ya son, I 99 video suggestions and brainrot’s getting blocked (I know it doesn’t rhyme, we can workshop it.)
The one that would most fit the bill for Lemmings is Chris Boden aka Physicsduck but there are heaps of informative creators making short content that doesn’t waffle on just to pad the runtime.
That being said; obviously if the goal is to watch a 1 hour deep dive into a subject and the reaction is “shorts can’t do that”…. Well, yeah, they’re like the fun facts you could get on Minty’s wrappers not documentaries.
This always makes me feel like an alien. Just don't use YouTube. Go get a book from the library. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go yell at clouds.
There are some that i really like, e.g voice-acting out tumblr posts, but i hate that it sends you to the shorts dimension every time you open it