elgordio, Seems like an interesting spin on what is basically ’random’. Probably a decent way to get content in front of users that might be outside their normal recommendations.
Is it some essential new feature, no, it’s just a bit of fun to find some new content.
rollmagma, Mate, just make sure you’re not getting into trouble with all that positive thinking, ok? Take care.
Ookami38, It seems like a feature that should be implemented April 1,and April 1 alone, and is tone-deaf to the actual problems on the platform.
BradleyUffner, That was my first thought when I saw this “feature” show up the other day. It actually made me laugh.
hollo, I was feeling optimistic about it because I’m always wanting some way to get more diversity into my recommendations. I was disappointed when it mostly presented the same videos I’d been seeing in my recommendations anyway, just only those with a particular color in the thumbnail.
bionicjoey, Sees CTC video
Ah, a fellow man of culture I see…
nudnyekscentryk, 😊 i’m one of the very favourite people
bionicjoey, Sounds like you know the secret
JK_Flip_Flop, 🎶That’s 3 in the corner 🎶
🎶That’s 3 in the spotlight losing its religion 🎶
nl4real, If YT wants to do aesthetic stuff, why not bring back custom channel backgrounds? Or better yet, add more site-wide themes like dark mode.
wholehalf, I found myself frantically tapping on the x on your screenshot before I remembered I was on lemmy… I am still too angry at youtube (and myself) for the time I have wasted on shorts to try out anything new it suggests. Plus it tries to recommend right wing crackpot youtubers to me everybso often which is really annoying. /rant
SpiceDealer, Quackery has gone digital, baby!
gun, This is a data collection strategy, not a feature
quaternaut, you know, I shouldn’t be surprised but I didn’t even think about that
Tangent5280, Remember the old days, when your aunt would send you an invite to a facebook game that would predict which celebrity you’re most like based on unrelated and harmless pieces of data, like: (1) Your favorite color, (2) Your first pet’s name, (3) The school you went to, (4) Your mother’s maiden name (5) Last four digits of your social security number (6) Birthdate
This sounds similarly comical if it was intended for data collection.
EDIT: I’ve reconsidered. Knowing color preferences is very useful for an advertisement company.
werefreeatlast, How about astronomy but with a little more penis please 🙏?
mmagod, their good devs and engineers have left
hal_5700X, …okay.
Use Freetube, people.
nudnyekscentryk, But this is for desktop?
hal_5700X, Yes.
nudnyekscentryk, Then how is this helpful for a feature on the mobile app?
hal_5700X,
nudnyekscentryk, Then why did you recommend FreeTube in the first place? I’m fully aware of LibreTube, Newpipe and Grayjay, but I choose to use Revanced due to factors mentioned in other comment. Using an alternative clients such as those listed above does not solve the global issue of Google making fucking stupid decisions, even if you yourself are not touched by them because you happen to use Newpipe
raiun, Are you asking Hal to fix Google’s business making decisions?
Jokes aside, the community welcomes all alternative clients Desktop, Mobile, etc. No one can fix Google’s poor decision making except Google. What can we do as consumers of Youtube to fix what is broken in the short term? Any alternative interface that fixes the problems for which we have control over.
BaardFigur,
zanyllama52, This is the answer
Minotaur, I just used it and I thought it was kind of cute. It’s obviously “useless”, but as a small (I assume temporary) change I thought it was interesting to see how different “genres” of videos tend to color code themselves in the thumbnail.
I’m all for small, fun little things in websites. Like anytime google has an interactive daily theme
Llewellyn, This is just farts and whistles, though
Minotaur, Fair, but so are most of the little interactive google things. I still like them.
Joelk111, Holy crap, the amount of hate in here, and no actual description of what it does. It’s essentially your normal home feed, but only the videos with thumbnails of the selected color. It’s also way over at the right of the home feed filters, so it isn’t like it’s being shoved down your throats.
Jknaraa, Yea, seems like a fun and quirky feature, but unfortunately I don’t think there’s anything big tech companies can do at this point to turn things around with public opinion given how utterly egregious their other sins have been (and continue to be).
Meowoem, Most people love YouTube, I know it doesn’t feel like it when you’re inside the Lemmy bubble but the big tech companies are far more popular than anything we like
KeenFlame, I love the videos on it, and fist off I liked the site too, but they have been enshittifying it pretty hard lately
wildginger, Fun quirky features are things you make when you have a good product.
These types of features added to things with genuine ongoing problems will always piss off users.
MaggiWuerze, For me it was embedded in my feed, not in some remote setting
Joelk111, Yeah, it shows up there once, then is buried to the right of the filters afterwards.
Tattorack, Doesn’t stop it from being a dumb, pointless feature.
Joelk111, Why bother caring? Doesn’t make a difference to me.
Tattorack, I care because it shows YouTube is more interested in wasting resources on dumb, pointless features rather than fixing various problems that have been plaguing content creators over the years
Joelk111, At this point I feel like it’s intentional, and either way, am not surprised. Unlike a lot of other commentors here, I don’t see the point in wasting mental power on worrying about it.
Buddahriffic, The resources used to implement this aren’t the same as the ones that would be used to address some of the other issues, as the ones I know of are more social/legal ones.
I bet this was mostly done by a single coder who showed it off and management thought it was a fun thing so added it to the main site.
DingoBilly, Seems great for giving more options for people who want this. I know a few neurodiverse people who would love something like this.
Just because it doesn’t work for you doesn’t mean it’s bad.
cabron_offsets, Wtf
snek, How revolutionaly. How disruptive. How innovative. /s
Jorgelino, Wait that’s supposed to be for suggesting videos? When I first saw it I thought it was just for customizing the look of the feed and was very disappointed that it changed basically nothing.
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