Youtube changed their homescreen?

[Jezza819]

Yesterday I pulled up Youtube and noticed that the homepage has changed. Before there were 5 smaller tiles across. Now there are three huge tiles. It makes it harder to browse. Anybody else noticed this?

 

[ScottPuss20]

Yeah I'm not a fan of it either.

 

[Tornado]

If UI designers didn't unnecessarily ruin stuff that worked they wouldn't be able to get paid to revert it.

 

[Meythia]

Bloated UIs are cancer and growning like that.

Im not using browser video history or whatever it might be called.
I prefer empty screens that dont try to convince me of what I have to watch.
Also I do not watch any YT video on YT directly but use the embed feature to avoid any ads they want to play - as long as the video can be played that way. There propably are other/better ways, who knows, who cares.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Yesterday I pulled up Youtube and noticed that the homepage has changed. Before there were 5 smaller tiles across. Now there are three huge tiles. It makes it harder to browse. Anybody else noticed this?

I hadn't but if you're using the skinny menu on the left, you get 4 tiles across.

I prefer empty screens that dont try to convince me of what I have to watch.
Also I do not watch any YT video on YT directly but use the embed feature to avoid any ads they want to play - as long as the video can be played that way. There propably are other/better ways, who knows, who cares.

I would prefer YouTube's home screen prioritised stuff that it knows I want to watch (based on my subscriptions), ahead of stuff it thinks I want to watch, and definitely ahead of stuff I've already watched.... but I also don't mind it showing me stuff I might want to watch... there's been masses of stuff over the years that was worth watching, but I'd not have seen if it relied solely on me doing a search for it.

To me, If you watch a lot of YouTube paying for premium is an absolute no brainer. It's better for me (no ads), the channels get more money for premium viewer time than ad-supported views - which is good for them, and I don't begrudge YouTube making money off it since they're the platform.

 

[Jezza819]

I did notice that if I haven't been on the website for awhile, then click on it, when it's loading it shows the outline of the old layout with empty boxes. It was 6 tiles across. Then it flips to the new 3 tile layout so the old one is still in there somewhere. I first primarily use Firefox but it's also changed on Chrome.

 

[EngieDiesel]

The change to larger tiles is entirely down to a growing majority of people watching Youtube on phones and tablets, so they need those larger tiles to actually see and tap on the video thumbnails on the smaller screens. Personally I think they should at least give the user the option to decide how many tiles per row are on the screen, but we all know Google doesn't do that "user choice" thing.

Though it does also have a smaller side benefit of making it more difficult for slop channels to create a deceptive AI-genrated thumbnail that doesn't actually represent the video's content and is designed for clickbait, which that would be harder to notice at small resolutions.

 

[Jezza819]

The change to larger tiles is entirely down to a growing majority of people watching Youtube on phones and tablets, so they need those larger tiles to actually see and tap on the video thumbnails on the smaller screens. Personally I think they should at least give the user the option to decide how many tiles per row are on the screen, but we all know Google doesn't do that "user choice" thing.

Though it does also have a smaller side benefit of making it more difficult for slop channels to create a deceptive AI-genrated thumbnail that doesn't actually represent the video's content and is designed for clickbait, which that would be harder to notice at small resolutions.

Yeah I searched all over the site looking for "layout options" or something like that in settings but didn't find anything.