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.