Author Topic: I loving hate youtube.  (Read 2994 times)

It's not user friendly anymore, it wont EVER play hd videos for me because it thinks my internet is too slow (which it is far from) and every time I start a video it plays in not 240p, but 144p and I have to change it every time.

Has anybody else noticed how stuffty youtube has gotten in the last few years? Seriously, I loving hate it :l

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=233356.0

YouTube has a problem right now, as I tried to outline best I could in that topic a few hours ago.

And nobody listened to you lololol ;D

https://spoi.com/software/yto/

Has an option to force video quality, plus a ton of other useful features.


I believe you can make it not adjust the quality based on internet speed in the options.

https://spoi.com/software/yto/

Has an option to force video quality, plus a ton of other useful features.

I found it strange how the top lists Chrome, Safari, and Opera. They link to their FAQ about Firefox, but it's like they purposefully didn't give a real answer. I guess being miles from "cool as it needs to be" means... not awesome, but versatile for their needs? It reminds me of how everyone used to speak about Chrome back when it came out and was very incompatible since it was still in heavy development to catch up to all the well-established browsers. I have tons of Firefox-compatible Add-Ons and Userscripts which add features and such to YouTube, so I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. I suppose they just don't like the differences they'd have in coding their thing for it, which I don't understand.

I believe you can make it not adjust the quality based on internet speed in the options.

Actually, you can't. A month or so back, my internet got oddly bad, and it bugged out YouTube. It'd keep lowering its quality to the lowest setting, and I'd have to force it back. I checked the settings, but you can't disable this. In fact, they made this feature worse. A week or two back, I was watching a video, and the quality gradually started going down over the course of 10-15 seconds, which I thought was the video since it wasn't snapping to it. But I checked, and it had gone from 360p to 144p. Shocked the forget out of me that it could slowly go stuff quality and I might not be able to tell since upload/rendering problems are possible, too.

Sucks that you have to make a gmail and give a phone number just to make a youtube account.

and this is why youtube should stop changing.

youtube prompts me every week or so to use my real name for my display name. I don't want to. why does it keep asking? I thought that was the point of a username??

they're trying to shove google+ down my throat and it's stuff and it can forget off.

I haven't experienced any of these problems ;)

Just join the HTML5 beta. No problems at all.

videos break if you leave them up overnight to resume

At least dailymotion has research

Occasionally YouTube has research. I remember a few times they tried to reopen adult content that had been taken down under some attempt at adult-only sectioning, which kept failing. Very quiet about it, too, but I remember some videos popping up which were adult and had special like "adult-only" markings. Apparently they had been blocked for being adult, but had come up again on an attempt for adult sections.