Never understood why they would remove functionality... I watch way way too much YouTube and typically gravitate to channels that have timeline stories.
This was something I actually really annoyed about when the roved it. I really enjoy going to channels and looking at what the original videos, and seeing how different they were compared to the channel's current offerings.
I'm surprised to see it was removed in the first place, as it makes watching series in chronological order a pain (unless the uploader explicitly made a playlist in chronological order, which means extra configuration time and is prone to mistakes from the uploaders)
There are federated video file sharing services. Maybe Google saw how spez fucking up is causing people to search for alternatives - especially federated ones - for all services and went, "Maaaybe we should add some easy to add features that people are wanting, like returning the ability to sort by oldest"?
I have the feeling that the only reason they're bringing back the feature is because of their push to integrate podcasts within YouTube. It makes sense to be able to sort by oldest to newest in the context of podcast episodes.
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