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

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Skidmark

sjt333 said:
add /home to youtube.com to get the old main page back

A thousand "thankyous" to you. That just made my day.
I hate change. @_@

05/12/2011

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Gunz

KainAussie said:

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

WOAH didn't think it would be that much!

05/12/2011

Melbourne, victoria

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kiryuu

It's not bad, as long as it works.

05/12/2011

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LMA0

Gunz said:
KainAussie said:

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

WOAH didn't think it would be that much!

God damn I bet he gets alot of pussy too. [MOG]

05/12/2011

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sjt333

oh **** you youtube

/home just show the "updated" home page now

05/12/2011

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Guyver

sjt333 said: oh **** you youtube
/home just show the "updated" home page now

So there goes the bypass trick.
The videos I have watched from by subscriber update feed seem to linger around longer than they used to do in the old build.

06/12/2011

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DerekRyan

Guyver said:
sjt333 said: oh **** you youtube
/home just show the "updated" home page now

So there goes the bypass trick.
The videos I have watched from by subscriber update feed seem to linger around longer than they used to do in the old build.

yep, pissed off now.
I just wanna remove the video's i've already seen.. shouldnt be such a problem ._.

06/12/2011

NSW, Sydney, Wakeley.

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SevenII

Is anyone else finding youtube to be very buggy since the release of this new layout?

Like, the old trick of pausing the video to let it load up a bit doesn't work half the time. If the video even loads at all.

24/01/2012

Far side of the world... (Sydney)

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Guyver

SevenII said: Is anyone else finding youtube to be very buggy since the release of this new layout?
Like, the old trick of pausing the video to let it load up a bit doesn't work half the time. If the video even loads at all.

That only happens to me with random videos. It used to be really bad when I had an ADSL connection but is almost gone since I switched to cable.

24/01/2012

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gargoyles

SevenII said: Is anyone else finding youtube to be very buggy since the release of this new layout?
Like, the old trick of pausing the video to let it load up a bit doesn't work half the time. If the video even loads at all.

yeah i am having the same trouble. i thought it was my safari but it is also with my firefox. it randomly does it.

24/01/2012

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SevenII

I've been getting it the whole time with cable and no matter which browser. :'( So irritating.

Paused an hour-long video to watch later while I went out for dinner last week to come home and see it hadn't done anything that whole time. [Rage]

24/01/2012

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RSOP

That's actually One of YouTubes new features that allow you to play and resume videos anywhere. It's a handy feature but I also like to load videos before I watch them. I also have a plug in which auto pauses the video before it starts.

24/01/2012

www.youtube.com/thepapadumgeek (Melbourne)

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Guyver

Clear out cache? might have something to do with it.

24/01/2012

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RSOP

Guyver said: Clear out cache? might have something to do with it.

Great point. I was at a YouTube event and they spoke person said that YouTube updates there site with regular bug fixes and updates, but most users don't see all this because of some browsers keeping old files. Clearing out the cache might or mightn't fix the issue but might fix somting else. Who knows ?

24/01/2012

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SevenII

I clean it out every week. :S

Might be because I have 10+ tabs open at a time.

24/01/2012

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sjt333

SevenII said: Is anyone else finding youtube to be very buggy since the release of this new layout?
Like, the old trick of pausing the video to let it load up a bit doesn't work half the time. If the video even loads at all.

i find youtube to just be slow sometimes, it will load a 12min 720p video in either 5ish minutes or 45 minutes

also lately it likes to load but not update the progress bar

24/01/2012

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SevenII

I just noticed it do that earlier. Might just be the problem I'm having.

24/01/2012

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TristanG_

I closed my YouTube account which used my hotmail email because I thought it would be easier just to use my gmail account for it. I tried signing in using my gmail account but all it does is take me back to the home page with it still showing create account and sign in on the top of the page. I tred adding my hotmail email to my gmail one and signed in using that, but I still get the same result. -_-

25/01/2012

Melbourne, Victoria

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Heller

Time for a new YouTube account me thinks!

25/01/2012

Melbourne, Victoria

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TristanG_

Another one! I tried to use my gmail account just so that I did not have to sign in and out everytime I want to look at something on my gmail then switch again to look at my YouTube stuff.

25/01/2012

Melbourne, Victoria

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Guyver

Is there any way to add an audio track to a video that you have already uploaded? I'm not interested in any of those tracks Youtube offers.

10/02/2012

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