Now what's going on with YouTube?

[D'Snowth]

Facebook, Myspace, and Youtube are all changing, and now this happens...

"Wikipedia's getting a new look"

ENOUGH ALREADY! ! !

Actually, Facebook has never changed its look, but yes, MySpace has been Facebookifying themselves for the past several months, as has YouTube. And let us not forget Yahoo! changed their homepage last year as well.

Still, enough is enough!

 

[D'Snowth]

Aw gee, have you guys seen how YT has rearranged video comments now? You can't even read them, they're cluttered into no kind of organization whatsoever.

EDIT: Okay, apparently Wikipedia's already went ahead with their new look... the layout isn't much different, but now the text is so ridiculously tiny you can't read it without a magnifying glass (or adjusting the page text setting to like medium or something). That, and you can't really search for anything, because it automatically begins search before you finish typing in your query.

 

[frogboy4]

The culprit: Young adults who want to watch YouTube clips, post Facebook and Twitter updates on their internet phones.

Everything seems to be getting reconfigured for the cell phone. Much of YouTube's initial restructuring a couple years back was due to the iphone's campaign against Flash support so much of the embedding had to be changed throughout the site. Facebook figured out this format preference early on and that's why users have jumped ship from MySpace. Facebook is simply leaner and quicker for that format, but it does shave off A LOT of bells and whistles that MySpace users really appreciate.

Expect this trend to continue. I'm just as upset by standards changing as anyone. My Muppet Central interactive menu designs have lasted beautifully for nearly 8 years, but tech leader Steve Jobs has a hate on for Flash and wants to kill its future for various reasons that benefit his pocketbook. It's all arbitrary, but in the end the internet standards are enforced by mob rule. If the majority of users don't like something those in charge will want to fix that.

One thing for certain is that we're going to have a lot of tweaky technology attempting to eclipse standards that we're already comfortable with and that's all in the name of progress...and profits.

 

[Frogpuppeteer]

Facebook is constantly changing i find it worst than youtube changes

 

[D'Snowth]

The culprit: Young adults who want to watch YouTube clips, post Facebook and Twitter updates on their internet phones.

Everything seems to be getting reconfigured for the cell phone.

Well, that's why it would behoove these sites to create cellphone/palm device ONLY versions of their sites.

Not ALL site do this, but they should, I've seen some with this feature, and it's rather useful.

 

[Drtooth]

Expect this trend to continue. I'm just as upset by standards changing as anyone. My Muppet Central interactive menu designs have lasted beautifully for nearly 8 years, but tech leader Steve Jobs has a hate on for Flash and wants to kill its future for various reasons that benefit his pocketbook. It's all arbitrary, but in the end the internet standards are enforced by mob rule. If the majority of users don't like something those in charge will want to fix that.

I love how Apple has the "we're the cool, outsider individuals" attitude and it's JUST as bad as everyone else.

Really... and for like 20 minutes Youtube videos didn't play for me at all. I was trying to watch that Lost thing with the Muppets.... took me 20 minutes and like 10 tries.

 

[Beauregard]

WHAT has happened to Google? It appears to have turned into Bing and the clear, clean layout that I always loved so much is a mess, mess, mess. And like my reflection after all that plastic sugary I had done, I don't even recognise it! (Note: I have NOT had plastic sugary...that was obviously a joke...)

 

[D'Snowth]

Google looks... exactly the same as it always has on my end...

 

[Beauregard]

Not here. For me it has two sidebars with the options such as "news" and "videos", related searches and really ugly icons. Its so obviously trying to be Bing.

 

[D'Snowth]

I laos forgot to mention that the new Wikipedia is also, and not surprisingly, significantly slower now.

I think the worst of it all is still MySpace Facebookifying themselves, ever since then, there was no more speed - it sometimes takes up to two minutes for your homepage on MySpace to finish loading since they went Facebook, and speed used to be one of the reasons I prefered MySpace.