New Youtube Layout, your thoughts on it?

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Just fired up Youtube for the first time in a couple of days and noticed the new look and layout. I heard it was on its way but also heard there was still some bugs in it that were not yet sorted out during the beta, guess I'll find out more as I go along.

At first glance I don't like the new logo you get in your book mark tool bar and URL bar, not a big thing obviously.
Home page seems to be easy enough to navigate, a little more handy having both my subscription feed and recommended videos on there. With the recommended videos it makes it easier to avoid clicking on crap by installing the preview plug-in pc.mmgn.com/... pretty happy that still works after the update.

Also quickly setup up the account linking options with Twitter and Facebook which was surprisingly easy to do. Just be careful if you have multiple email addresses for different social media accounts. When I went to link my Twitter account it automatically grabbed the MMGN Twitter account without prompting me about it , had to go back are sort that out again.

Like I said still early days and I'll go about using at I normally do and see what problems I encounter and how much of the new stuff actually makes using Youtube better.

Share your thoughts and any tips, cool stuff, issues, bugs etc with us in this thread.

03/12/2011

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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gargoyles

i like it because it is neater and easier to navigate. i hate the new google though.

03/12/2011

It's none of your business: ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

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sjt333

sucks want the old one back

03/12/2011

To get shot and not do much else, turn to page 58 "I've always liked cowabunga."

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M@ndyz

I like the look.. Much nicer.

03/12/2011

They say great science is built on the shoulders of giants - not here. At Aperture we do all our science from scratch; no hand holding.

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SevenII

It wouldn't hurt for them to stick with a layout for longer than 12 months, but I don't mind it.

The twitter like feed is kinda samey, but they way you can view just uploads is ok.

03/12/2011

Far side of the world... (Sydney)

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Mik3y

M@ndyz said: I like the look.. Much nicer.

Yarp

03/12/2011

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Tsunamo

I don't mind it, it's a bit buggy though.

03/12/2011

[Perth, W.A | MMGN]

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Pilkingbod

Still plays videos the same for me, so yeah, I don't hate it, I don't love it.

Only recent addition that shits me off is the adverts before EVERY.SINGLE.VIDEO [Rage] [Rage]

03/12/2011

Melting pot of friendship

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gargoyles

Pilkingbod said: Still plays videos the same for me, so yeah, I don't hate it, I don't love it.
Only recent addition that shits me off is the adverts before EVERY.SINGLE.VIDEO

that is annoying

03/12/2011

It's none of your business: ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

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SevenII

They seemed to have added a monetisation option with it turned on by default.

Only found it on my channel by accident.

03/12/2011

Far side of the world... (Sydney)

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sjt333

SevenII said: They seemed to have added a monetisation option with it turned on by default.
Only found it on my channel by accident.

the content displayed along with my videos thing in manage account? i think thats been there a while

03/12/2011

To get shot and not do much else, turn to page 58 "I've always liked cowabunga."

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PS3K

I wished the thumbs up and the thumbs down button was still green and red. But other than that, I don't really mind it. I'm not gonna complain for something that we get for free.

03/12/2011

Sydney

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Gunz

How much money do famous youtubers make from their video's? Oh and youtube seems a little to simple [Shifty]

03/12/2011

Melbourne, victoria

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gamedevil

I thought it was just theoretical money

03/12/2011

melbourne,vic

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gargoyles

Gunz said: How much money do famous youtubers make from their video's? Oh and youtube seems a little to simple

yeah it does.

03/12/2011

It's none of your business: ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

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KainAussie

Gunz said: How much money do famous youtubers make from their video's? Oh and youtube seems a little to simple

ray william johnson makes about 30k a day and about 3 mill a year

03/12/2011

Gold Coast

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sjt333

see i like the video pages because they are basically the cosmic panda video pages in a different colour, its the main page that ticks me off!

the old main page was great, you could see multiple videos from multiple subscriptions at once. this new one has obviously been designed for smartphone use.

03/12/2011

To get shot and not do much else, turn to page 58 "I've always liked cowabunga."

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IAMColonel

Never liked any of Youtube's layouts, always cluttered and with a whole bunch of stuff that casual users like myself a) have no interest in b) have no idea what it is there for. No different with this one.

03/12/2011

Melbourne

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prodigyX

gargoyles said: i like it because it is neater and easier to navigate. i hate the new google though.

03/12/2011

Australia/VIC

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Kiriplant

If anyone wants to go to the old main page (though it is slightly different), just add /home on the youtube URL.

03/12/2011

Sydney, New South Wales

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sjt333

Kiriplant said: If anyone wants to go to the old main page (though it is slightly different), just add /home on the youtube URL.

i love you

marry my pants

03/12/2011

To get shot and not do much else, turn to page 58 "I've always liked cowabunga."

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ND88ct

Youtube's last layout has been the best by far I think, since if someone uploaded lots of videos at once it wouldn't clutter everything up. I don't mind the new layout as a whole, I just don't like the new home page.

gargoyles said: i hate the new google though.

I like the new google a lot better than the old one. A lot more neater in my opinion.

03/12/2011

In a that general direction

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DaNoSaUr

Haters gonna hate. But I think it looks really good :)

03/12/2011

Canberra

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Hugz

Gunz said: How much money do famous youtubers make from their video's? Oh and youtube seems a little to simple

5 to 30 cents per like on a video. It depends how 'popular' the Director is.

03/12/2011

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates The Philosopher.

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whaling

It doesn't affect me so much as it does others, as I view youtube primarily on my iPhone. It doesn't seem to much affect video watching itself, so I'm not complaining. The layout itself looks nice, though it seems a little over-cluttered. I suppose I prefer my webpages as minimalistic as possible...

03/12/2011

On a vessel.

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