You're literally just being difficult. The Blockland Forums isn't the same thing as Youtube. It's a bulletin board style forum used by <1,000 people per day. Youtube is a social media platform, a video broadcasting platform, a video sharing platform, a discussion thread platform, a private messaging platform, an update feed platform, a marketing platform, and so much more and is used by MILLIONS of people per day. Comparing the two is like saying that construction machinery is stupid because you can do small home fixes with your bare hands.
I never claimed the old youtube was unusable or even less featured. I said that it would look like that. Human beings are extremely visual creatures that have a huge focus on aesthetics -- that website just won't cut it in this day and age. People would literally be driven away by the archaic styling. It's the same reason that cars look different every generation -- there's nothing wrong with how a '67 mustang looks and some people even like that better, but it looks a lot different than a 2015 mustang. Things update. Things evolve. If you can't adapt, you'll get left behind and that's your fault, not the fault of the technology that's surpassing you.
There's no problem with comparing the
visual styles of two websites just because one has orders of magnitude more users.
It's the functionality that would be uncomparable, but 1,000 people are still as human as 1,000,000,000 people.
People tend to treasure classic cars, at least the better quality ones.
And there's a lot of people who treasure the older youtube designs.
That metaphor just doesn't work. Sure there'd be a decent amount of soccer moms with safety concerns, but the majority of people would trade in a used kia civic for a
brand new '67 mustang.Lastly, google can do whatever they want and not worry about losing users.
They could make youtube like in 2009, or they could force total integration with google plus. Either way would get a lot of hate, but people would keep using the site.
