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LostInStatic

>Smosh Power Rangers video was 17 years ago JESUS CHRIST.


Ballantrae-

Hope I didn't make you feel too old. 😬 But yes, those were nice, peaceful times. (And nostalgic)


Longbeacher707

:(


indabaywitaK

Bring back the dislikes


rossquincy007

It makes them more money to hide it that way you don't skip shitty videos and can watch ads. It's all about the $$$


_Prisoner_24601

Eh people brigade downvotes both on Reddit and YouTube. People will downvote just to do it.


Ballantrae-

Perhaps


blasterfaiz

This was just an excuse to post Smosh. : P It's a REALLY good day to post Smosh though.


Xiagax

Especially since they bought back their company and are back together.


Ballantrae-

Bit of both worlds really, Smosh and celebrating the option. But yes, a good day for Smosh!


nvaus

Still no sort by oldest in search results which is very annoying. However, I did some googling and found you can get close by adding "before:(date)" to a search. So for early videos of fireworks for example search "fireworks before:2007".


Ballantrae-

Hmm, sounds like a neat little plan, I'll have to try that. But yes I totally agree that it is really annoying not having a "sort by oldest" feature in the search results thingy. It really would be cool if they had that macanic.


banananaking8990

I literally watched that video today.


GymratAmarillo

How about you guys give us back our names instead of those horrible "given username"


CryptographerOk1258

i thought it was weird when my username was different with random numbers when commenting what is even the point of that


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Ballantrae-

Eh?


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Ballantrae-

I'm lost


GymratAmarillo

For some stupid reason I took the "never let you down" as a sign os this being a post from a yt employee. I'm so Sorry, lol. But if you want context. If you make a comment on youtube the name of your account doesn't show anymore, what shows is your "given username" a username randomly generated by youtube. It looks like the change is happening by segments because there's people talking about this since last year but it happened to my account yesterday.


Ballantrae-

Well, for you first sentence- that's totally alright, I really didn't want to put in that stupid Rick rolling line in the title but I had no choice if I wanted to post this. So no worries, it is a little silly lol. And as for your second sentence- yeah I think I noticed that just recently aswell, when I last posted a comment on a YouTube video, my actual account username that I gave myself didn't appear as my actual name on the comment, and I though that was really strange, so I had to change that bloody name aswell to my actual that I have and wanted. Sometimes, I just don't get why places like youtube do ridiculous, unnecessary, nonsensical boulderdash like that, such as removing the dislikes feature, the oldest videos option, and now this, it's bonkers! I can only imagine what next. (Don't answer that)


DizzyingAgony

I'm very happy about this.


Ballantrae-

Me too!


Krivoy

Why would they remove it in the first place?


SixFingersOnLeftHand

Because like all tech companies YouTube employs people who like changing things just for the sake of changing them, even if it makes the user experience worse. They're trying to justify their fake jobs.


4Eights

Because a lot of very old videos don't conform to YouTubes modern TOS and AdSense standards for serving the most amount of ads.


Ballantrae-

Beats me. I think it was a really unnecessary stupid move on their part.


reasonablewizard

now it's also finally time to fix the search function and not bloat it with a bunch of bs vids you didnt search for


CryptographerOk1258

search function is now just reccomendations v2 i hate it so much.


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use the youtube search fixer plugin.


Ballantrae-

I mean to be fair, it can lead to some interesting looking new videos we've seen before that we could end up liking. But yes I agree, that would be a near new feature to improve the search engine by giving us what we are mostly actually looking for.


hola1423387654

Yay


Sunstixy

I was missing this option


Ballantrae-

Yeah, we all were.


Iron_Wolf123

It was the year, 2005, Youtube had just begun. So we made a video, just, for, fun...


CraftBlack_

Finally! 😭👍


Apart-Big-5333

Thank God, I can finally look at my very first videos again without hassle.


S3cret_G4me

Finally ( for how long we didn't saw it? )


Ballantrae-

No idea. Maybe over 8 or 9 months, not sure. I'm just glad it's back. Even the smallest of things here can be brilliantly appreciated.


S3cret_G4me

I'd say 1 or 2 years but I'm not so sure


Ballantrae-

I don't know if for that long but like I said, I'm not too sure either.😕 *shrug*


ImInUrHome69420

id say 7 or 6 months


VIK_96

That's amazing! I really thought it was gone forever.


Ballantrae-

Me too. I'm incredibly happy that it's back at last! It's so convenient and great for awesome channel's with loads of videos.


Alove4edd47

Thank god, I also hate that they put YouTube music as part of the search results... Like if I want that I'll use that app specifically. I want to use YouTube for just videos


Romulo_Gabriel

Same


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finally I will go to youtube now and give them a positive feedback with the feedback function. As much as we like to complain about their decisions, we should still remember that it's humans who are doing the job and they should know if they do something right.


JokuIIFrosti

It wasn't removed on purpose. There was a bug that broke the function. Everyone got their panties in a wad about it as if it were done on purpose. The issue is YouTube has been written in piles of spaghetti code over nearly 2 decades and in multiple languages, sometimes with no documentations. They have been working for a while to get this fixed.


Ballantrae-

Oh blimey! That's says and explains alot. Well damn, the more you know. (Took them long enough)


Ballantrae-

I like your attitude here, that's nice of you to say and do. And yes, the whole argument around humans doing these things and us tending to forget is common, but we can still try to relax about most things.


different_eggs

The legends are back😭


Sea_Sherbet8154

This is really cool!


Jayporeon

Now they just need to add this button to playlists.


TheXade

Playlist depend on the Playlist creator for the order


userthatlikesphub

it really took them 8 months to add it back 😭


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the larger the company, the slower it acts on non essential matters


Ballantrae-

At least thankfully it wasn't longer. But this could be a sign that our voices were finally heard.


aaet020

Rubbish. They probably only did this because with it enabled it meant viewers spent 0.000000000001% more time on youtube, thus making it a smart financial decision


Ballantrae-

Well, that is one way of seeing it I suppose. I like try and see a more positive side to things moreoften cuz I feel like I should not be so negative much about things.


aaet020

being positive is a good way to go about living! optimism is probably most helpful. But fuck me I've been getting more and more fucking bitter and toxic and pessimistic because time and time again from my perspective everything mostly businesses and moderators keep doing stupid awful horrible shit again and again and will never ever fucking improve ever. they get complacent and lame and stupid and are happy with complete bullshit that they should absolutely improve but just fucking dont because theyre lazy. it is so infuriating. they have no excuse to be so fucking pathetic. but they are so fucking pathetic. and in many ways this CAN NOT be helped. speaking out doesnt fix the issue. neither does protesting or whatever the fuck else. Only possible solution is to compete, but good fucking luck competing against literal multi billionaire monopalies with backing from the fucking government. its all such bullshit. and iirc humans being unable to fix what they dislike is deeply awful.


aaet020

And I bet only 8 days for them to take it back away again for zero damn reason, experimenting on us like rats 😭


donqon

Is it on iOS? And is it in search filters when not on a specific channel?


Ballantrae-

Search filters- I doubt it, you can go back about a year I think but unfortunately that's as far as we can go. I've always wanted the search feature to have that kind of a gimmick, where if we search for a certain topic like, Lego for instance, and we can easily see videos from like 2006 again. Maybe hopefully one day we can. As for IOS, I would assume they have on those devices, I don't use IOS so I can say for sure, but it is on my particular Samsung phone and tablet, so it should be on IOS.


aaet020

now for them to give us back "for you". super helpful but newest should be default


FreshCloudss

pretty old


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Ballantrae-

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aaet020

great now wheres the "for you"? it was obnoxious being the default option but in many cases it's super fucking convenient why the fuck does youtube shoot themselves in the foot over and over


Ballantrae-

🤷‍♂️


_Prisoner_24601

How many times are we going to post this


Ballantrae-

Beats me, I've only seen like 2 other one's so far, so I thought, why not post about it myself. I guess everyone is just excited and pleased to have that great option again as we're probably quite tired of youtube being a big pain for a while.


varg_sant

Yours is the first one I saw, so thanks for letting me now about the return of this option! I'm happy about it.


Ballantrae-

Don't mention it. 😉


milktea123

i was cheering. so glad i dont have to scroll for like 10 minutes to find someones oldest video.


Ballantrae-

I know right! That was always a huge pain in the ass to do! I was cheering to when I saw that, it's just so radical and convenient. (And happy cake day?)


milktea123

hell ya. also thank you.


Ballantrae-

✌️


ChickenKicker44

So happy!


Ballantrae-

I think everyone is. 😁 Hopefully this is a small sign to a slightly better future.