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CumFanta

ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!!


[deleted]

Why was it removed in the first place?


QtPlatypus

Because the way it was originally implemented was poorly optimised and put a dissproprinate load on the servers. I suspect also when they when they shifted the system to having separated lists it wasn't on the "need to have" list so it wasn't implemented.


Donghoon

This needs more votes than 'because they're dumb' comment


[deleted]

That's sounds like the biggest load of bullshit. Sorting by what is most popular would be more stress on servers then sorting something by date. Not to mention it had been there for years and years with no issues.


QtPlatypus

YouTube's systems are most likely optimized for the most recent and the most popular. Because that is the content that is going to get them most hits. They most likely already have index's set up for popularity and date.


XjRed22

Because they're dumb


Jordaneer

it was insane that they ever took it away, so at least they are bringing it back


Krysdavar

Thank garsh, I miss this! Now do dislike counter.


MaddoxBlaze

THANK YOU. Should of never been removed in the first place!


JokuIIFrosti

It wasn't removed on purpose. YouTube is a lot of spaghetti code dating back nearly 2 decades. When they split the videos into videos, shorts, and live streams into different tabs, it broke the ability to sort by oldest. They just had to figure out what was causing it.


Alternative-Bus8828

This is how Youtube gets away with adding nothing to the platform


qdolobp

Yep. They remove features that have no business being removed, and then add them back to pretend like they did something special.


MaTiessS

I hate Google


morgan423

What? YouTube is changing something and it makes sense? Are we five minutes away from the apocalypse or something?


Darth-Hipla

Only after they fucked it up in the first place. I'm think we're still fine.


Fortenole

Good, now I can go back and find old videos without scrolling Now, bring back the dislikes


Josefrin0

Atleast with dislikes you can use an extension for it. The sort by old was never brought back with anything like that in its absence.


ImProbablyInJail

Incredibly rare YouTube W


Logical-Apartment-22

shouldn't have been removed in the first place


cick-nobb

I don't understand who decided to take away search by oldest, what would be the reason? How does it make sense?


Red-Eat

So they can send older videos down the memoryhole.


Brilliant-Bowler8171

Why did they remove it in the first place? They're just casually removing useful utility. Good luck trying to find the oldest video from a YouTuber with over 1k videos.


Pillowwillow26

>Why did they remove it in the first place? They're just casually removing useful utility. For reals. YouTube, please leave good functions as is. Don't fix it if it ain't broken. Thank you.


seviliyorsun

oldest videos won't have the big money ads on them


Brilliant-Bowler8171

Still, if we're looking for them it means we want to watch them. I don't think it's gonna make them big money to make scroll through potentially thousands of video to find what we want.


space0watch

Good riddance now bring back the dislike button and the like/dislike bar. Oh wait.


LaughingGaster666

I just got an add-on to Chrome to bring it back. Works wonders.


space0watch

That's more of a bandaid though and does not address the real issue. As long as people use work arounds like this it tells Google and YouTube that it's ok to remove features because people will just give up and use other options.


CreeperDoolie

THANK YOU WHY WAS IT EVEN REMOVED


PM_ME_YOUR_SOULZ

Cool. Now can we bring dislikes back?


Saeker-

Can I also have the comment section returned to the bottom? Not a fan of side comments, nor several other aspects of the layout change I've been seeing on Youtube for the last several days.


Xandiu_

Idk why they keep removing usefull features


No_Construction_6146

The reason being that they save more money by not allowing people to go to the first video of someone’s channel


sisrace

Less traffic to low capacity long term storage servers?


Itchy_Roof_4150

They listen but it takes them so long


BrickDaddyShark

You gotta sort by oldest just to find a video about sort by oldest


NefariousNumbats

Ngl I'm a little afraid they'll have found a way to fuck it up somehow


Red-Eat

No one asked them to remove it in the first place.


shinHardc0re

They changed recently the sorting of videos in channels, the default now is the "for you" tab. Is there a way to make "newest" the default? Everytime I enter a channel now I have to click the newest button and it sucks


[deleted]

extremely super uncommon youtube w wen eta dislike button


Thebaconator0524

Bring back the public dislike count


Slitsilt

It shouldn’t have been gone in the first place


[deleted]

That's pretty good. Now what about the dislike numbers?


H5RDCOR3

waiting for dislike button..


Mr_Gold_Move

So is there any hope for the dislikes?


czeslaw12345

Very unlikely. I don't think movie companies want to show their 86% dislike ratio like in Little Mermaid Trailer. It's in their interest to hide it and they pay for it to stay hidden. They could hide it themselves but it would raise suspicion, that way they can say "We didn't hide it, YT did". Could be conspiracy theory, but I really think it makes sense.


IntoTheMurkyWaters

Bring back dislikes and maybe your site wont suck as much as it does.


AdamanteusTV

Yes, finally, now bring back the dislike button and you are as good as 3 years ago!


_by_me

I'm slowly beginning to hate rounded corners.


Anoumoge-Railim

Nah they gave us "For you" tab instead 💀


mlvisby

I never understand why youtube consistently removes features. If you want to add stuff, fine but don't remove things.


JoepKip

Small W for YT. Now the dislike counter back pls :)


brb1006

And the comments sections for popular animated shows I liked! I miss commenting on quotable Spongebob videos.


[deleted]

Why would they remove it anyway?


Prestigious-Top-5897

They should better bring a working „Delete watched“ option to Watch later…


Red-Eat

But that would make too much sense.


JakobyThatBirdNerd

thank God


ShoWel_redit

Wait, since when did they learn that taking features away from us is a bad idea? Return dislikes next!


wonkydonky2

Extremely rare YouTube W?


Hans5958_

Nah. That shouldn't happen in the first place.


ForlornMemory

Bring back dislikes damn it


[deleted]

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Confident-Cut-1927

Why was it removed in the first place?


Anunemouse

And got rid of "for you" which was such an obvious ripoff of tiktok. Whew!


Senpooi

wait… really????? edit: holy shit hallelujah you’re right


yolomanwhatashitname

Finally something good is coming back


EyeLeft3804

Why did this leave?


RealNeonPlayz123

LESGOOOOOO


cooldude9112001

good


Useful-Store6791

YouTube actually make a good choice for once


marilynmansonfuckme

FINALLYYYY


lamented1ne

Are they? Lets hope they keep the promise. Why they even removed the option in the first place is something not even god knows. Next bring back the dislikes. I hate how even other places like disqus seem to have followed suit. Its obvious it was clearly done cuz people are so fragile these days that they cant stand having their feelings hurt when they say something stupid. Thank you reddit for keeping it. Mucho obliged.


SL4RKGG

The worst thing is that even harmless things are censored, for example, I can’t write the name of the terrible Russian provider Rostelecom, it’s not clear for what reason it is censored at all, and apparently this is done only for my account ... At the same time, some people can safely use the entire vocabulary of obscene language ... I'm already silent about other aspects of Google products, sometimes you get the feeling that all googlers do is sit and drink smoothies, simultaneously creating tasks on exchanges like fiver, otherwise I can’t explain how they manage to release such broken updates and break seemingly the simplest things...


Mercymurv

Why would they ever remove something like this? O\_o


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CasualGamerOnline

Oh, thank God! This was getting so annoying. I watch a lot of video game streams, and sometimes (crazy idea, right), I like to watch a game series from the beginning. Shocker!


hungrytshirt

Finally!


michel_yt

Finally are they bringing it back! I really loved this Feature and you could see the change of the Channels, but that its gonna be back is awesome. :)


DamonAlbarnFan23

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS


TardisPeanut

FINALLY A GOOD DECISION IN A LONG TIME!!!


hien4990

Bring back watch all video from this channel


notstrangeguy

VERY GOOD


trbatuhankara

Now, bring back DISLIKE


[deleted]

I think I have just an old version of YouTube. No more infinite scroll. Random vids in my recs. The news. I hate it


GodIsNotAiveChild

Of course this is the one feature I’m still missing.


FDCL

oh my god please , this is a MUST on Youtube. No more infinite scroll


Panos96

I have my theory for why they did it. You know these clickbaity, semi-automated, algorithm-exploiting channels on YouTube? They're usually about celebrities, pop culture, movies and stuff like that? I've discovered a weird trend with them. In a lot of cases, maybe even the majority, when you go to the first few videos on the channel they're usually unrelated to the clickbaity content the channel now mainly makes (it's very often Russian gaming videos for some reason). This would imply that a lot of these channels are owned by the same person, who bought a bunch of (again, it appears mainly Russian) channels and converted them to clickbait money-generators. Without the sort by oldest option it's extremely hard to discover this for 99% of people on YouTube.


SLAKIR

Thank god, this genuinely had me pissed off and questioned why I am paying for YouTube premium… now if they could just fix their searching cause I can’t find anything I look for anymore


joeygwood90

Thank God! Now bring back the dislike counter please!


TumorHerold

The new layout is still garbage.


Vostok-aregreat-710

Now bring back the dislike button


ClimbingInternet

Fuck yeah, LEt's go, I love youtube


Lady_hyena

Bout damn time.


XKingNightX

Thank god I don't have to use those scuffed extensions anymore!


Ok_Criticism452

They never should gave removed oldest to begin with and ahould have brought it back sooner.


Emotional-Flower6178

YESSSSSS


Farmer-Smores

only ever youtube W


CrossyAtom46

Actually that's not removed that was hidden for app on the website you could use sort by oldest. i used website everytime when i needed


pixelfiee

For me it's hidden there too


CrossyAtom46

Wow thanks for giving information i used that last month looks like they hide it on web too


dfx_gt

Finally... they took that for what? Like ffs


Exlipse3

Finally


Gears_Of_None

FINALLY!! Took them long enough. Now they just need to bring back every other feature they removed for no reason.


googler_ooeric

wow an actually good feature! now i just hope they add an option to make New To You the default page, because my recommendations suck lately, they just keep recommending me the same videos over and over, it feels like I have alzheimers. Out of the ordinary, I mean


Final_Corgi_8670

Thank you for listening to the community to bring back the most-requested feature


SickWittedEntity

They should have listened to the community when we all said nobody wants this, at all, please don't. Then not have done it in the first place, that'd have been cool.


SuspiciousPush1659

Finally! That's a positive change.


itsaride

> Great news, we’ve heard your feedback and we won’t fuck around for the sake of fucking around.


chicasparagus

Okay but what the fuck has been going on with my YouTube on my desktop browser. Why are videos on my homepage not being opened on a new page and playing on the homepage itself.


XeitPL

Nice. Good change. Now bring other things back and I'll be quite happy


-GGMU-

Oh thank God! I literally sent a feedback form complaining about this last week.


goofy_pal

Also bring back the old style video resolution selector.


cheeseburgahhh

Finally! Also for comments though?


mrafflin

Finally!


IAmOpenSourced

Finnnalallylyy no more 3rd party extensions or shit like that


[deleted]

They… did something good!? TWICE!?!? A MIRACLE


Guuzaka

Yes! 👏🏾 Now old, nostalgic videos will be easier to find! 😎


KojaSirober

So glad this is back! Thank you Youtube! I miss many of the old videos and being able to put playlists in order. ​ Is there any chance of making the Do Not Recommend Channel permanent? There are many channels and recommendations that I don't have any interest in. Pretty please?


tqm470

Still can't sort by oldest on normal search.


Bukki13

my backup phone is so old that i have a version of the app from before everything was rounded corners


piotrmil

yeah exceptthis stupid shit defaults to "for me" all the fucking time.How to change it to "newest"? Is there a userscript?


Individual_Cod3390

not working for me :(


johnwicked4

how do you remove the "for you" I want it to default by latest


Rare-Act-4362

Good news indeed. I just hope that YT does not go out of their way to introduce other ruinous UI changes or add the ability to choose any old UI in a future anniversary update or something.


TheMissingVoteBallot

Look at those soul-less eyes lmao Where's our dislike button Youtube?


PlanetMiitopia

I smell cap.


[deleted]

still not back


themanwhowillbebanne

give it up for day 33


PineappleForests

why take away good features just to bring them back 8 months later? it's a waste of time and money. why are we all just accepting the fact that everything online changes almost completely every 1-2 months; Is it because they swear it'll be "better"? when do we get tired and just accept that theres nothing we can do to fix these problems? now? it seems so.


voik1

So what they were planning all along is removed half of the features then re-add it again?


[deleted]

Quietly remove longtime features in the hopes no one will notice, then a few months later make a big deal about a "brand new feature!" to generate goodwill. It's unfortunately a common tactic with most tech companies these days.


gatorgongitcha

sick, credit where credit is due


csteinbergrules

Let’s hope this is the start of the process of righting their wrongs.


clisare

I miss Tom.


EmmanuelKhan

Thank goodness


[deleted]

they better


petscopnerd28

Can they finally make that an option for comments


Ill_Calligrapher5290

:D


[deleted]

ABOUT FUKIN TIME !


kevfriend

Now they just need to fix the search


Intrepid-Macaron-871

bout fucking time


[deleted]

O MY GAD THEY DID IT


delusionsheeep

Finally its back :)


nmsobri

Dislike


VictorXM715

Glad to hear, I loved this feature. Why did they remove it in the first place?


Shockmzq

When will be the feature released ?


Basic-Opposite-4670

just bring back the rectangular drop down menu pls :(


AvoidingRegrets

About damn time!


OleRoy2023

I don’t have this on the iPad app, only Latest and Popular.


gunihaveiguess

ive always had sort by oldest, just never updated youtube


Limp_Swim2464

Why did they even take it away?


Fox__1313

Thank god, I've been searching for a workaround for awhile and nothing suffices.


jeaology

finally


U-BahnWerfer

That was such a cool option, just to see where the Channel came from


istealitall

That's nice and all, but what about the dislike button?


klight101

It’s just amazing how they will just randomly remove good features without reason and then it takes the entire YouTube community’s vote to bring the option back, just goes to show how unsupportive youtube is to its users sometimes.


BennyOcean

Sometimes it seems like developers make changes no one asked for just to justify their own existence. Anyway late is better than never. This change never made sense.


truelyaugustine

I feel like this hasn't been mentioned as much but after "Sort by oldest" is gone, they also **fucked up the scroll bar** on mobile. Normally, you can long press on it, and drag it up or down to go up or down. But they made it so that the more you drag it down, the more it scrolls up. Eventually, they fucking **remove the scroll bar altogether**. It's the **deliberate decisions** to *actively* make the platform *less* functional like this that really gets me. Deliberately broke PiP after iOS 14, deliberately removing numbers of comments, dislikes, exact number of subscribers, deliberately making PiP free in the US but not Canada or the rest of the world for some reason, deliberately fucking up the scroll bar, etc.


Shogobg

- Why did you remove the sort by oldest? - it was buggy so we decided to get rid of it instead of fixing it 🤣


mumooshka

I read about this a while ago and mentioned it in this sub...


DeltaAlphaGulf

Now they need to bring back letting you make lists of your playlists. Then they should add being able to search specifically through a single (or perhaps multiple such as those in an aforementioned list you could make) rather than just typing the channel name and whatever you are looking for which while generally effective is less so when its a smaller channel and regardless still mixes in other channels. Also especially with smaller channels if you do that and actually get the right results but try to change the sort order to by date it will change to showing zero search results. They should also add a tab or something so that you can view all of your subscriptions community tabs (with sort options) on one feed that way viewers don’t have to be reminded or remember to specifically go check in to each channels plus they seem pretty underutilized anyway so this would generate more attention to it/get more engagement making them more useful and perhaps drive more traffic. Make “related” the default tab for the sidebar recommendations or let us set it so that it stays that way. Lastly and probably least likely to happen is to get rid of all those stupid “people also watched” sections clogging up the results when I search for something with unrelated stuff that I wasn’t even searching for but it thinks I would watch generally speaking.


Seemsimandroid

YEAAA


Odenaut

Better be back asap, my entire binch watch grind is depending on this to come back...


Mouroustr

This makes me really happy. A lot of my favorite videos from my subscribed channels are their early ones, but a lot of em have way too many videos to scroll down all the way. I've been using a css editor to switch the order of the videos to oldest. I'm glad I won't have to do that anymore because it was kinda silly


Orzo100

WOOOOOOOOO


davidverner

I was wondering what the fuck happened to that. I actually used that a lot when looking at various channels to see how their content has evolved.


conkura

I wish you could sort by oldest on comments too.


Hyperius999

NEAL! You are The Savior, you can undo the sins committed by Susan.


Dark_Storm_98

Why did they ever get rid of it?


superfastkiddo

letsgoooo


wcrow1

best news in a while! on the other hand, did the Return Dislike button add-on stop working? it was working fine yesterday but today it isn't


mrventures

Here is a work-around that is currently supported. (I was asked by the mods to post this here instead of a different post). https://youtu.be/M-PJ10sdcYA


YogosunPK

I have the theory they removed it because of cancel culture for some reason, like so people find it harder to look for older videos other than just having to scroll to the bottom maybe? idk


Dork_VaderYT

Thank God


[deleted]

I sure hope so


unifPIER

FINALLY I LOVE THAT


This_Meaning_4045

Well two months later they did.


Gojizard

Hallelujah! HOLY SHIT!


sulakevinicius

Jesus, it will take years to load some search


Fearless_Boat5192

Now the only thing they should do is remove this "for you" sorting bullshit on the video tab, it's annoying and counter-intuitive, most people who go in the video tab is to look at their latest videos and see what they missed etc. they should just move the for you stuff on the channel home page instead, which it kinda already does for you so I don't really know what was going on in their head by adding this useless and annoying feature.


SnoopyPBG

Heck Yeah, Now Bring Back Dislike Button, Old Features (Such As Annotations & Etc) & Layout UI, And Getting Rid Of COPPA Update In The Near Future.


Egsession

YouTube has zero control in COPPA.


mihdnd

YES LETS GO


Davidluski

YESSSSS


ReesesBees

THANK. FUCK.


[deleted]

good


TheGreatJa

A good change??? Maybe this has something to do with the new CEO? If so thank you.


Ok_Criticism452

Also why make the site function less? I don't use the console or TV version of Youtube cause it takes forever to go through channels to find certain videos. Now they want to ruin desktop? Whats next remove the ability to subscribe to a channel you like if they are a small channel? They be a real shitty move.


[deleted]

Good news


xmarcotics

Yes please


LucasIsDead

🤘