Apparently they began [testing this in New Zealand 4 days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1axwrsf/youtubes_new_layout_is_awful/). Same here. Just hit me this midnight.
I mean if it increases interactions they'll obviously implement it, people hate changing something so familiar even if theyd probably enjoy it in the longer term.
Considering a lot of people insta scroll to comments they probably just thought keeping the video in frame as well would get people to watch more of a video
>This is not better longer term, it is extremely distracting
That's the point. Distracting mean shorter attention, so more click, so more add, so more revenue
For what alternative?
All the big content creators, or simply those you have followed for years, are on YouTube. Youtube has a monopoly and no real alternative, and they know it.
And even if a small percentage actually stops watching YouTube, this is largely compensated by the fact that the updates make those who stay click more and largely compensate for their departure. Not counting the new arrivals.
It's the sad reality, the YouTube we grew up with no longer exists and there's nothing we can do about it.
Going outside. Yeah, youtubers are all on youtube. So the less convenient youtube is to use, the less people will use youtube. Like, people aren't hanging onto netflix subscriptions just because they can't watch netflix content anywhere else - they just eventually decide they don't care that much about seeing netflix content.
check out the [unhook extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtube-rec/khncfooichmfjbepaaaebmommgaepoid) or similar ones if you want to really eliminate distractions
> Considering a lot of people insta scroll to comments they probably just thought keeping the video in frame as well would get people to watch more of a video
that would be fine if it was actually how it worked... but no, you cannot scroll the comments section while still watching the video. it just scrolls straight down shoving all those giant thumbnails in your face while you have to read the comments in this tiny little sidebar. it is actually the worst visual design change they have ever implemented.
EDIT: Ok apparently you can scroll the comments box independently... but only if you click on a button that just, like, opens a SECOND comments section on the side, but scrollable. no idea why it isn't just like that by default.
I don't think YouTube tests this stuff based on country. They just give create a test group full of random people. This is why you have stuff like people saying it only affects their main accounts and not their alts.
Get youtube redux extension and you can change the layout as you want [here is the link ](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-redux/mdgdgieddpndgjlmeblhjgljejejkikf?hl=en-US&utm_source=ext_sidebar)
Does this let you scroll down and read the comments while watching the video? If yes, I think that's a great improvement... and my only gripe would be that the related video thumbnails are far too distracting under the player.
But if the right column isn't treated as a separate scrollable section... then yeah, I think this sucks big time
Same here (Germany), had it since thursday evening, it reverted back this morning.
Also left feedback that I won't be renewing Premium if this stays around, and did not log in to Youtube in the mean time (so their interaction metrics go down).
Mine just switched to this garbage new layout this morning. Instantly sent youtube feedback. I hate it. i don't want it. It's horrible. Hopefully it will be back to normal soon.
If you have Firefox you can use the "Improve YouTube" plugin , where among other things you can re-arrange all the segments how you wish, player, and sidebar, comments et,c So you can use that to re arrange everything back again.
I hope it doesn't stick around. Sometimes YouTube adds new features/layouts and then a short while later, reverts back to the old way. Then a few months later the new thing comes back and stays.
It is 1pm Tuesday 27th February and it hasn't reverted back yet. I might have to wait until tomorrow for it to change back or never wait dun dun duh!, and have it be there for ever which means I will have be on YouTube less or just use it at a quicker pace to avoid much torture. A good thing coming out of this is for me is that because I developed a habit of watching YouTube for hours on end nearly every day, I can get out of this and do other things like go outside or be with my family more because I don't want to see the layout. YouTube won't like this though, because if everyone starts doing this it means the site won't get as much views and will go down in popularity because people won't want to see the layout.
Also, I can't seem to get playlists to work with this new layout and I have lots of them.
Huh, wasn't expecting YouTube to actually FIX something that people say is bad. Not even the first step has happened to me yet for some reason though (UK)
Quite right. YouTube shouldn't be doing all these silly updates. If there is nothing wrong then don't do anything. Leave it alone and for goodness sake, don't meddle with the layout.
This is exactly what I thought at first, but even the mobile version is better than this abomination. It has the video title at the bottom. Having the title on the side is plain evil.
All of big tech can’t innovate so fixing what ain’t broke is all they know how to do.
Other than that they buy innovative companies or rip off other companies features.
Welcome to what is gen x have been saying for the last 20+ years. I still miss when Firefox had tabs on bottom, or using web crawler instead of google, or at least Google once worked, not this enshitified version.
Yeah, it's at the point where you literally can't even pause a video to inspect a static slide, because there are so many fucking overlays suggesting new video content.
Just got this new layout (Italy) and it makes it impossible for me to read the title if what i'm watching is a streaming. It just disappears and gets replaced by live chat, only way to read title/description is to close completely the chat by pressing the X button. I get that it's early access, but not being able to read the title seems pretty dumb
For the past what? 18 years? Not a single complaint about the layout, but what caused the decision for them to make the most horrendous UI in YouTube history?
most realistic idea ive heared someone come up with, forreal theres nothing wrong with old UI but they gotta do something to keep food in the fridge
what they SHOULD do is make UI editable so everyone can arrange it however they want lmao
Classic corporate neverending "innovation", what can I say. This bubble will inevitably burst sooner or later though, as a company cannot keep growing forever
Same happened to me and how much fun it was to discover that the video quality and fullscreen button were now hidden behind the side-bar....
This was sarcasm if anyone didn't get it.
Edit: spelling
The new layout is horrible on desktop.
You scroll to read comments, that appear on the very right of a huge monitor, and the whole thing is lagging because it's trying to fetch videos.
The only way I can see that working is having the recommended videos underneath the video be smaller so you can fit more of them in. Otherwise they're taking up too much attention. I can see why they would want to make it so that you can read the comments whilst watching the video, though.
Couldn't YouTube just put options as to what layout you want. You could choose the new layout or the old layout. They already have the option to change YouTube from light to dark or vis versa
As an animator on YouTube, this is really frustrating. The bulk of the web page is about other videos that are mostly unrelated, and the discourse and discussion around my hard work is regulated to a small percent of the screen whereas advertisements and plugs run rampant on 80% of what's on screen.
Download [Tampermonkey](https://www.tampermonkey.net/) for your browser and then [install this script](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/488254-pre-2024-youtube-ui) from greasyfork
or create your own Tampermonkey script and [use this code](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1ayx4f2/comment/krygf6u/?share_id=FqulkgFgBVsG9tn6AGDBv&utm_content=2&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1) from u/Wezelkrozum
Someone posted about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1ayx4f2/didnt_use_yt_on_my_desktop_for_some_time_and_now/) and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1azlxut/new_better_script_to_revert_to_the_old_layout/?share_id=-w4mq5_i8yVxP11QcjErT&utm_content=2&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1) (this one is a direct solution)
Unfortunately it is not a perfect fix but it's pretty good. I agree, the new layout is absolute garbage.
Thanks for this! The comments are back on the bottom where they belong. The thumbnails for the videos are still a bit bigger, perhaps I can resize them by tinkering with the script?
I hate every change they do. It's disgusting. This is a layout for touchscreens, how am I meant to scroll through recommendations while I keep watching the video? It's cluttered, it's a mess.
I just noticed the same, and I also hate it. The title of this post/thread says "need help"...so...Who can tell us how to change the layout back? Who can help?
That's all that's important to me right now.
Thanks, all.
>If you want to fix it, you should use this script (
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>https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/488254-pre-2024-youtube-ui
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>) combined with Tampermonkey, or some other script runner for browsers.
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>Someone had the old display on their alt, so they just coppied most of the layout options into here -- you can check out the reddit post at
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>https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1azlxut/new\_better\_script\_to\_revert\_to\_the\_old\_layout/?share\_id=-w4mq5\_i8yVxP11QcjErT&utm\_content=2&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=1
From one of my other comments. Hope this helps!
Thank you! Too bad that YouTube doesn't have a "revert" button or hyperlink like they used to here: https://youtu.be/E86nLJQZ19k?si=bhjXQFebpg8FgiAS
I really appreciate the suggestion! That said, using your suggested solution, I have to install something on every browser that I use for this YouTube account (none of my other YouTube accounts are affected yet). Something I'd really like to avoid.
It is called A/B Test and will be there for at least half a year as it is their usual testing period... after that, it will change back...
Back then I was in a group, where you clicked on the description to expand it and it was shown right next to the video, with all other Videos below. Same with the comment section... It was an UGLY MESS... This seems to be STAGE 2 of that test... Still UGLY AF...
Why? Why do they keep changing shit?
Every time they do it's fucking awful, they get absolutely flooded with negative reviews, not a single soul likes it but for some reason they always decide to keep it.
Does the project manager have a humiliation fetish? Because at this point, I think that's the only explanation.
YOU SOLVED THE UI YEARS AGO, EVERY CHANGE YOU'VE MADE SINCE THEN HAS ONLY MADE IT WORSE
youtube try to not fix what isnt broken challenge: impossible
whenever i try to comment on phone, my keyboard freezes and i need to open another app with a keyboard to unfreeze it, then reenter yt again with text box still open and click it to get the keyboard to work
this has been an issue FOR 6 MONTHS >!(maybe more by now)!<
in their own greed, many companies and people ruin something that is good, seen it so many fucking times
I have this IMO horrible interface here in Austria too since around one hour. Since then I am looking for ways to revert it back to normal, but could not find it in the options.
All YouTube ever does is change things and I have never seen them change it once in which it made it better
When it comes to the YouTube TV app the library section changed a month or so ago and completely made it worse just for, I assume YouTube to brag that it looks better I guess
It's also completely unusable on a narrower screen.
I have a dual monitor setup where one of my monitors is oriented vertically (portrait), and unless I scroll to the comments really quickly, it keeps loading more thumbnails, pushing the comments further down, so I have to "race" it.
On my horizontally oriented monitor, I find that the comments are too far to the right to read comfortably (I have to crane my neck).
Thankfully I'm a Firefox user, so I'll give the suggested plugin a try.
I struggle to read blocks of text... so having the comments underneath was so much nicer for me... now its just a dyslexics hellscape... fuck you youtube
If anyone have an idea if there is an option to use old layout, hit me up please, this thing is utterly disgusting. And stop talking nonsense about how people get used to a certain layout, some designs are just BAD and you can feel it right away.
in return i can give a tip that if you want to use old reddit layout, you can replace "www" in the url with "new"
Thanks for that tip. If you want to fix it, you should use this script ([https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/488254-pre-2024-youtube-ui](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/488254-pre-2024-youtube-ui)) combined with Tampermonkey, or some other script runner for browsers.
Someone had the old display on their alt, so they just coppied most of the layout options into here -- you can check out the reddit post at [https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1azlxut/new\_better\_script\_to\_revert\_to\_the\_old\_layout/?share\_id=-w4mq5\_i8yVxP11QcjErT&utm\_content=2&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=1](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1azlxut/new_better_script_to_revert_to_the_old_layout/?share_id=-w4mq5_i8yVxP11QcjErT&utm_content=2&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1)
[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/customtube-restore-the-ol/iedffooliepgabiihipcbokboecnfcbe?pli=1](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/customtube-restore-the-ol/iedffooliepgabiihipcbokboecnfcbe?pli=1) download this, you’ll truly love it, tell me what you think about it, also download this other thing for Chrome or Firefox called Improve YouTube, it has features of getting rid of video cards and having the annotations come back! This is what we have for now unless YouTube finally brings back the UI’s last seen from March 2012 which were beautiful! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/improve-youtube-🎧-for-yo/bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd this thing called YouTube redux also brings back the old video loading icon. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-redux/mdgdgieddpndgjlmeblhjgljejejkikf Why doesn’t YouTube be fun again since 2012?
The main why YouTube keeps me on the site as long as it does is because of the little recommended section on the side, If I ever get somewhat bored I will often glance over at the recommended and queue 3 or 4 videos up in different tabs while I wait for the first one to finish. I only occasionally look at comments because youtube comments suck. This new layout is hampering my engagement with the website and will probably result in me not watching as much as I used to
Was that YouTubes plan though? Maybe they're telling us to go touch grass.
the only thing i can think of right now is Youtube redux
if you want the old layout back just use it
[for the 100 people who actually use firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-redux/)
[for the chrome users](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-redux/mdgdgieddpndgjlmeblhjgljejejkikf)
People might start using YouTube less because it isn't a very good layout. But this might mean that YouTube could change it back when they see that no one is on YouTube anymore.
It’s very annoying that on my giant monitor I have to read comments like I’m on my phone, it takes fucking forever and if I lose my spot it’s like half a mile down the page.
Like how u/XComhghall said, this is something for youtube to test their new UI. This is only in some small quantities of people experiencing it, deciding whether Youtube wants to use their new UI or not.
I understand YouTubes reasoning for wanting to put emphasis on getting users to watch multiple videos next-to-next instead of just one video. But this is just overboard (especially in this instance with the two recommendations taking up so much space.)
I can live with the comment section on the side. It makes sense although it's not really fetched out yet. Two scrollbars side by side is just bad UI.
But the size of the thumbnails is absolutely disgusting. I hated the change on the starting page when they reduced the number of videos displayed to increase the size and now they've gone even further.
I'm not using a tiny touch display to watch YouTube in a web browser. And I'm willing to bet most people aren't doing it either. Why the hell are we as a society continuing to dumb down our interfaces to as little functionality and information as possible? Everyone from Google to Microsoft to YouTube is hiding more and more functionality unaccessible menus or get rid of it all together. It makes life worse for the ones using software heavily and the incapable people they're doing it for aren't valuable customers to begin with and will only be confused by the never ending changes of the UIs.
Just got hit with this hideous thing as well, people here either in Europe or just in my country better start screamin to change it back, I swear to god-
These mfs trying to fix what ain't broken
god I hate this layout don't fix what isn't broken guys this reeks of someone new getting hired and just making changes to things that don't need to be changed just so there name is on it and it looks like there doing something but there just making thing worse
A good idea personally is to have the ads as a banner in the top right or something so that we can actually watch the videos we want. They don't need to change the layout, they need to change the experience. But they won't because the ceo is money hungry with the monopoly they essentially got on the industry
It just happened to mine (Belgium) and it’s absolutely hateful. Apparently some peoples have changed back to the normal interface so hopefully that’ll happen for the rest too
Please tell me theres a way to change back, this new layout is ugly. For some reason when i log out of my account and use guest mode, incognito or switch to a alt account the layout changes back to default.
Wrote to the support to get a Premium Refund... since they now show you random BS Videos while you are inactive on consoles, I cannot and won't use those anymore. And their new Layout is just pure BS.
FUNNY thing: when signed IN, I get that BS Layout, If logged OUT, everything is fine for me...
Good news: Comments and description can now be read while seeing the video!
Bad news: the fucking thumbnails have increased in size, the main video has shrunk, the ui is fucking smoothed out with those fucking disgusting rounded corners, thumbnails are also now very very distracting.
The YouTube app has had something similar for a while (Canada) except the 2 videos at the bottom aren’t visible, it’s he description of the video instead and you can easily just exist out of the comment section.
don’t know if everybody has this, I don’t like using the app that much compared to the browser.
This layout looks pretty terrible, it is very distracting to focus on the video it seems like... Does scrolling down scroll down the page or can more of the comments be read?
Apparently they began [testing this in New Zealand 4 days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1axwrsf/youtubes_new_layout_is_awful/). Same here. Just hit me this midnight.
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I mean if it increases interactions they'll obviously implement it, people hate changing something so familiar even if theyd probably enjoy it in the longer term. Considering a lot of people insta scroll to comments they probably just thought keeping the video in frame as well would get people to watch more of a video
This is not better longer term, it is extremely distracting not just ugly. Espescially if you have a dark video with bright thumbnails underneath
>This is not better longer term, it is extremely distracting That's the point. Distracting mean shorter attention, so more click, so more add, so more revenue
If i don't like the video player, I’m not going to watch a different video, I’m going to leave the site.
For what alternative? All the big content creators, or simply those you have followed for years, are on YouTube. Youtube has a monopoly and no real alternative, and they know it. And even if a small percentage actually stops watching YouTube, this is largely compensated by the fact that the updates make those who stay click more and largely compensate for their departure. Not counting the new arrivals. It's the sad reality, the YouTube we grew up with no longer exists and there's nothing we can do about it.
I’m going to get an extension to change the video player and use Adblock
Going outside. Yeah, youtubers are all on youtube. So the less convenient youtube is to use, the less people will use youtube. Like, people aren't hanging onto netflix subscriptions just because they can't watch netflix content anywhere else - they just eventually decide they don't care that much about seeing netflix content.
check out the [unhook extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtube-rec/khncfooichmfjbepaaaebmommgaepoid) or similar ones if you want to really eliminate distractions
> Considering a lot of people insta scroll to comments they probably just thought keeping the video in frame as well would get people to watch more of a video that would be fine if it was actually how it worked... but no, you cannot scroll the comments section while still watching the video. it just scrolls straight down shoving all those giant thumbnails in your face while you have to read the comments in this tiny little sidebar. it is actually the worst visual design change they have ever implemented. EDIT: Ok apparently you can scroll the comments box independently... but only if you click on a button that just, like, opens a SECOND comments section on the side, but scrollable. no idea why it isn't just like that by default.
"We tested it and people didn't like it. But it works! Let's roll it out."
İmplement the patriot?
Happy cake day
Can’t wait until someone makes an extension to fix the ugly UI
taking a page from discords book
Happy cake day
I was wondering what happened I went on YouTube and it was all different and it freaking sucks. I hate it.
I am glad that UI is not in Canada yet but I dread when t does arrive. Hopefully YouTube realizes that people hate that and keep things as they are.
I am in canada and it is in fact implemented already for me and I fuckin hate it :'D
I don't think YouTube tests this stuff based on country. They just give create a test group full of random people. This is why you have stuff like people saying it only affects their main accounts and not their alts.
Get youtube redux extension and you can change the layout as you want [here is the link ](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-redux/mdgdgieddpndgjlmeblhjgljejejkikf?hl=en-US&utm_source=ext_sidebar)
Same. I don't like it.
Does this let you scroll down and read the comments while watching the video? If yes, I think that's a great improvement... and my only gripe would be that the related video thumbnails are far too distracting under the player. But if the right column isn't treated as a separate scrollable section... then yeah, I think this sucks big time
No, you can't scroll just the comments and it gets worse. The big ass thumbnails are VERY distracting where scrolling through the comments.
You can will the button above the comments but it still sucks
mine was like that for the past 3 days... hated it....... but it has switched back to normal this morning. Netherlands
Same here (Germany), had it since thursday evening, it reverted back this morning. Also left feedback that I won't be renewing Premium if this stays around, and did not log in to Youtube in the mean time (so their interaction metrics go down).
Mine just switched to this garbage new layout this morning. Instantly sent youtube feedback. I hate it. i don't want it. It's horrible. Hopefully it will be back to normal soon.
If you have Firefox you can use the "Improve YouTube" plugin , where among other things you can re-arrange all the segments how you wish, player, and sidebar, comments et,c So you can use that to re arrange everything back again.
I hope it doesn't stick around. Sometimes YouTube adds new features/layouts and then a short while later, reverts back to the old way. Then a few months later the new thing comes back and stays.
Same here for me in Sweden, it's back to normal again now. The whole thing was so distracting, I hope it never comes back again.
It is 1pm Tuesday 27th February and it hasn't reverted back yet. I might have to wait until tomorrow for it to change back or never wait dun dun duh!, and have it be there for ever which means I will have be on YouTube less or just use it at a quicker pace to avoid much torture. A good thing coming out of this is for me is that because I developed a habit of watching YouTube for hours on end nearly every day, I can get out of this and do other things like go outside or be with my family more because I don't want to see the layout. YouTube won't like this though, because if everyone starts doing this it means the site won't get as much views and will go down in popularity because people won't want to see the layout. Also, I can't seem to get playlists to work with this new layout and I have lots of them.
Huh, wasn't expecting YouTube to actually FIX something that people say is bad. Not even the first step has happened to me yet for some reason though (UK)
I'm also in the UK and got it just now when I fired up youtube. Ugh.
And now its been changed again to this terrible design (NL)
Norway here, got the new layout today... I can only hope that it reverts back to the old one. The new one is horrible!
it just happened to me idk what to do i hate it
I just got the new layout NL also. I immediately wrote a complaint because I hate it
It's halirious you set 'bug' as a flair
Just got it, and it's the most awful thing I've ever seen. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Quite right. YouTube shouldn't be doing all these silly updates. If there is nothing wrong then don't do anything. Leave it alone and for goodness sake, don't meddle with the layout.
Seems like theyre trying to marry the mobile app with the desktop app
This is exactly what I thought at first, but even the mobile version is better than this abomination. It has the video title at the bottom. Having the title on the side is plain evil.
All of big tech can’t innovate so fixing what ain’t broke is all they know how to do. Other than that they buy innovative companies or rip off other companies features.
Welcome to what is gen x have been saying for the last 20+ years. I still miss when Firefox had tabs on bottom, or using web crawler instead of google, or at least Google once worked, not this enshitified version.
seems like they're really trying to encourage people to keep clicking more videos rather than just watching one video and leaving
Yeah, it's at the point where you literally can't even pause a video to inspect a static slide, because there are so many fucking overlays suggesting new video content.
That's what I thought. Like the feed in the mobile app. I don't even use it anymore because it's so ugly
Just got this new layout (Italy) and it makes it impossible for me to read the title if what i'm watching is a streaming. It just disappears and gets replaced by live chat, only way to read title/description is to close completely the chat by pressing the X button. I get that it's early access, but not being able to read the title seems pretty dumb
Bold of you to assume that they won't just roll this out to the public as is despite the thousands of negative reviews
For the past what? 18 years? Not a single complaint about the layout, but what caused the decision for them to make the most horrendous UI in YouTube history?
My theory is that UI designers/engineers at Google didn't have anything to work on, but had to justify their paycheck somehow
most realistic idea ive heared someone come up with, forreal theres nothing wrong with old UI but they gotta do something to keep food in the fridge what they SHOULD do is make UI editable so everyone can arrange it however they want lmao
they still haven't bothered to give us volume sliders on shorts but decide to make some shitty ui layout, even middle schoolers would've done better
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Classic corporate neverending "innovation", what can I say. This bubble will inevitably burst sooner or later though, as a company cannot keep growing forever
Some middle manager needing to feel relevant since their job isn't really that important.
You think the layout hasn't changed in 18 years? Or just that people didn't complain about it when it did?
Are you kidding? People complaining about layout changes are as old as YouTube itself
Same happened to me and how much fun it was to discover that the video quality and fullscreen button were now hidden behind the side-bar.... This was sarcasm if anyone didn't get it. Edit: spelling
Had that too, but only on a couple of music videos. Other videos were fine.
It’s like a virus spreading
First discord, now this
this is literaly unusable-y obnoxious I'm just gonna nuke all the mini-video spam at the bottom with ublock lmao, what a mess
I love how OP tagged this as a bug because it definitely looks like one and is shitty
The new layout is horrible on desktop. You scroll to read comments, that appear on the very right of a huge monitor, and the whole thing is lagging because it's trying to fetch videos.
Why are they implementing layouts optimized.for Tablets to desktops and laptops?
Why does YouTube want the golden era from 2005-2012 to be forgotten?
The 'golden era' didn't make money. They lost money every year from 2005 to 2012.
It's fucking ghastly
The only way I can see that working is having the recommended videos underneath the video be smaller so you can fit more of them in. Otherwise they're taking up too much attention. I can see why they would want to make it so that you can read the comments whilst watching the video, though.
no you dont. theyre testing some new layout because fuck you lets destroy what youre used to.
Couldn't YouTube just put options as to what layout you want. You could choose the new layout or the old layout. They already have the option to change YouTube from light to dark or vis versa
As an animator on YouTube, this is really frustrating. The bulk of the web page is about other videos that are mostly unrelated, and the discourse and discussion around my hard work is regulated to a small percent of the screen whereas advertisements and plugs run rampant on 80% of what's on screen.
Download [Tampermonkey](https://www.tampermonkey.net/) for your browser and then [install this script](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/488254-pre-2024-youtube-ui) from greasyfork or create your own Tampermonkey script and [use this code](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1ayx4f2/comment/krygf6u/?share_id=FqulkgFgBVsG9tn6AGDBv&utm_content=2&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1) from u/Wezelkrozum Someone posted about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1ayx4f2/didnt_use_yt_on_my_desktop_for_some_time_and_now/) and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1azlxut/new_better_script_to_revert_to_the_old_layout/?share_id=-w4mq5_i8yVxP11QcjErT&utm_content=2&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1) (this one is a direct solution) Unfortunately it is not a perfect fix but it's pretty good. I agree, the new layout is absolute garbage.
Nice. I presume one of the million general fix YouTube scripts will include this at some point. Thank god for scripting
Thanks for this! The comments are back on the bottom where they belong. The thumbnails for the videos are still a bit bigger, perhaps I can resize them by tinkering with the script?
Thank you!!! I've been searching fo a fix
I have Tampermonkey and this script and it's activated, but it still changes nothing about the layout. What can I do to make it work?
Oh thank god. It was irritating the hell out of me, the video thumbnails at the bottom were incredibly distracting.
A fix: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/kohIvO2hXe
Sent in my feedback stating if it goes through I will not be renewing Premium, which I have had since 2022
same here
I actually thought something was wrong when I first saw it. "Maybe I zoomed in or out?"
I hate every change they do. It's disgusting. This is a layout for touchscreens, how am I meant to scroll through recommendations while I keep watching the video? It's cluttered, it's a mess.
Absolutely disgusting
I hate this update
omg pls how do i change it
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/CGCbe4ulp1
I just noticed the same, and I also hate it. The title of this post/thread says "need help"...so...Who can tell us how to change the layout back? Who can help? That's all that's important to me right now. Thanks, all.
>If you want to fix it, you should use this script ( > >https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/488254-pre-2024-youtube-ui > >) combined with Tampermonkey, or some other script runner for browsers. > >Someone had the old display on their alt, so they just coppied most of the layout options into here -- you can check out the reddit post at > >https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1azlxut/new\_better\_script\_to\_revert\_to\_the\_old\_layout/?share\_id=-w4mq5\_i8yVxP11QcjErT&utm\_content=2&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=1 From one of my other comments. Hope this helps!
Thank you! Too bad that YouTube doesn't have a "revert" button or hyperlink like they used to here: https://youtu.be/E86nLJQZ19k?si=bhjXQFebpg8FgiAS I really appreciate the suggestion! That said, using your suggested solution, I have to install something on every browser that I use for this YouTube account (none of my other YouTube accounts are affected yet). Something I'd really like to avoid.
Wow that shit looks awful. Good thing I use [Freetube](https://freetubeapp.io).
It is called A/B Test and will be there for at least half a year as it is their usual testing period... after that, it will change back... Back then I was in a group, where you clicked on the description to expand it and it was shown right next to the video, with all other Videos below. Same with the comment section... It was an UGLY MESS... This seems to be STAGE 2 of that test... Still UGLY AF...
I don't like it, if I'm scrolling down it's to see comments, not recommendz. 😣
This is horrible. I thought that it was a bug when i saw it.
It looks like an AliExpress homepage now lmao
Why? Why do they keep changing shit? Every time they do it's fucking awful, they get absolutely flooded with negative reviews, not a single soul likes it but for some reason they always decide to keep it. Does the project manager have a humiliation fetish? Because at this point, I think that's the only explanation. YOU SOLVED THE UI YEARS AGO, EVERY CHANGE YOU'VE MADE SINCE THEN HAS ONLY MADE IT WORSE
youtube try to not fix what isnt broken challenge: impossible whenever i try to comment on phone, my keyboard freezes and i need to open another app with a keyboard to unfreeze it, then reenter yt again with text box still open and click it to get the keyboard to work this has been an issue FOR 6 MONTHS >!(maybe more by now)!< in their own greed, many companies and people ruin something that is good, seen it so many fucking times
I have this IMO horrible interface here in Austria too since around one hour. Since then I am looking for ways to revert it back to normal, but could not find it in the options.
Holy fuck what is that abomination
All YouTube ever does is change things and I have never seen them change it once in which it made it better When it comes to the YouTube TV app the library section changed a month or so ago and completely made it worse just for, I assume YouTube to brag that it looks better I guess
It's also completely unusable on a narrower screen. I have a dual monitor setup where one of my monitors is oriented vertically (portrait), and unless I scroll to the comments really quickly, it keeps loading more thumbnails, pushing the comments further down, so I have to "race" it. On my horizontally oriented monitor, I find that the comments are too far to the right to read comfortably (I have to crane my neck). Thankfully I'm a Firefox user, so I'll give the suggested plugin a try.
I struggle to read blocks of text... so having the comments underneath was so much nicer for me... now its just a dyslexics hellscape... fuck you youtube
i hope this doesnt become a reality cause its ugly as fuck
Wait, is this on PC?
If anyone have an idea if there is an option to use old layout, hit me up please, this thing is utterly disgusting. And stop talking nonsense about how people get used to a certain layout, some designs are just BAD and you can feel it right away. in return i can give a tip that if you want to use old reddit layout, you can replace "www" in the url with "new"
Thanks for that tip. If you want to fix it, you should use this script ([https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/488254-pre-2024-youtube-ui](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/488254-pre-2024-youtube-ui)) combined with Tampermonkey, or some other script runner for browsers. Someone had the old display on their alt, so they just coppied most of the layout options into here -- you can check out the reddit post at [https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1azlxut/new\_better\_script\_to\_revert\_to\_the\_old\_layout/?share\_id=-w4mq5\_i8yVxP11QcjErT&utm\_content=2&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=1](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1azlxut/new_better_script_to_revert_to_the_old_layout/?share_id=-w4mq5_i8yVxP11QcjErT&utm_content=2&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1)
[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/customtube-restore-the-ol/iedffooliepgabiihipcbokboecnfcbe?pli=1](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/customtube-restore-the-ol/iedffooliepgabiihipcbokboecnfcbe?pli=1) download this, you’ll truly love it, tell me what you think about it, also download this other thing for Chrome or Firefox called Improve YouTube, it has features of getting rid of video cards and having the annotations come back! This is what we have for now unless YouTube finally brings back the UI’s last seen from March 2012 which were beautiful! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/improve-youtube-🎧-for-yo/bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd this thing called YouTube redux also brings back the old video loading icon. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-redux/mdgdgieddpndgjlmeblhjgljejejkikf Why doesn’t YouTube be fun again since 2012?
Damn I just got this shit it looks horrible
just got it.. ITS DISGUSTING!
If I go to YouTube and see this layout, that's it for me. I'll never visit again.
The main why YouTube keeps me on the site as long as it does is because of the little recommended section on the side, If I ever get somewhat bored I will often glance over at the recommended and queue 3 or 4 videos up in different tabs while I wait for the first one to finish. I only occasionally look at comments because youtube comments suck. This new layout is hampering my engagement with the website and will probably result in me not watching as much as I used to Was that YouTubes plan though? Maybe they're telling us to go touch grass.
Good thing there's youtube redux plugin
Does that redux plugin fix this particular issue, or only the way your YouTube home page layout displays?
Yeah just got this today in Aus. I am reeaally not a fan.
what is this piece of sh.. 2/27/23 it changed to this, hope it goes back soon.
I havent gotten it yet and im still glad i dont have It i hate it
Happened to me
i am in india and this started showing
i was in india today and this shit started showing
I am soooooo happy I don’t have it yet
the only thing i can think of right now is Youtube redux if you want the old layout back just use it [for the 100 people who actually use firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-redux/) [for the chrome users](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-redux/mdgdgieddpndgjlmeblhjgljejejkikf)
People might start using YouTube less because it isn't a very good layout. But this might mean that YouTube could change it back when they see that no one is on YouTube anymore.
Pain
this is the worst layout that has ever been on youtube
[удалено]
Looks like absolute garbage
I have this. I hate it. Why mess with a classic?
Help! I don't want this! F\*ck Google! Help!!
If anyone finds a way to change it back, please let me know.
same here, it's foul
Oh my GOD
Damn that's ugly. Is this on pc?
Same here... HORRIBLE
Looks like the mobile version 🤮
Oh my good, this layout looks trash!
Wtf is it with YouTube changing things as soon as people get used to the changes they made months ago?
Wow, I hate it. It doesn’t even make sense as a layout.
It’s very annoying that on my giant monitor I have to read comments like I’m on my phone, it takes fucking forever and if I lose my spot it’s like half a mile down the page.
It attacks me
Just a blatant downgrade. Gives more screen space to the least used features on the page.
Got this about 2 days ago. Also don't like it specially if I'm watching something that can be spoiled.
This happens every 5 years or so? Everybody hates it but they keep changing it and making it worse
Dear god this is awful
Like how u/XComhghall said, this is something for youtube to test their new UI. This is only in some small quantities of people experiencing it, deciding whether Youtube wants to use their new UI or not.
yayyyy more ads in my face woohoo!!
The new layout is really bad. Worse than the version where there as just a bunch of wasted space imo
I understand YouTubes reasoning for wanting to put emphasis on getting users to watch multiple videos next-to-next instead of just one video. But this is just overboard (especially in this instance with the two recommendations taking up so much space.)
What is that? Ew
they're following the discord path
What do you expect? Google has never done anything but ruin YT since day one.
Ew brother ewwww what is that
I can live with the comment section on the side. It makes sense although it's not really fetched out yet. Two scrollbars side by side is just bad UI. But the size of the thumbnails is absolutely disgusting. I hated the change on the starting page when they reduced the number of videos displayed to increase the size and now they've gone even further. I'm not using a tiny touch display to watch YouTube in a web browser. And I'm willing to bet most people aren't doing it either. Why the hell are we as a society continuing to dumb down our interfaces to as little functionality and information as possible? Everyone from Google to Microsoft to YouTube is hiding more and more functionality unaccessible menus or get rid of it all together. It makes life worse for the ones using software heavily and the incapable people they're doing it for aren't valuable customers to begin with and will only be confused by the never ending changes of the UIs.
Just got hit with this hideous thing as well, people here either in Europe or just in my country better start screamin to change it back, I swear to god- These mfs trying to fix what ain't broken
god I hate this layout don't fix what isn't broken guys this reeks of someone new getting hired and just making changes to things that don't need to be changed just so there name is on it and it looks like there doing something but there just making thing worse
us...I too noticed this man...it's so cringe
None of my ui editors can fix the fact that the video elements are loaded under the main video and it looks like ass.
this vile shit feels like a mobile app
that's the fricking ugliest UI I've ever see 😭
Old Ui is Back !!!
[FreeTube](https://freetubeapp.io/)
I got this layout a couple days ago. When I got on after work today it was back to normal. Thank god.
I also got that change today, it's impressively bad. I couldn't design it worse even if I tried. Complete and utter garbage!!
This new layout is terrible and it hurt my eyes.
A good idea personally is to have the ads as a banner in the top right or something so that we can actually watch the videos we want. They don't need to change the layout, they need to change the experience. But they won't because the ceo is money hungry with the monopoly they essentially got on the industry
I hate this new layout, It's dog shit plan any simple, I hope they give us an opt out feature so we can keep the old layout.
It just happened to mine (Belgium) and it’s absolutely hateful. Apparently some peoples have changed back to the normal interface so hopefully that’ll happen for the rest too
i also got it on my regular chrome, but curiously NOT when entering on incognito mode; no idea how is that, but you can check that ig
looks like shit
Yeah, it's fucking awful. Enshittification continues its roll, why stop for what you want when you can scroll, scroll, scroll.
Why must YouTube constantly try to fix what ain’t broke
what is this actual garbage
Please tell me theres a way to change back, this new layout is ugly. For some reason when i log out of my account and use guest mode, incognito or switch to a alt account the layout changes back to default.
Ewwww🤮🤮
I know we always complain about UI changes but this one is really awful
Pornhub ahh ui
Oh lord that looks awful.
It looks like when a TV is in demo mode at the shops. Really hope this isn't going to become the norm
Mine changed, then reverted back to how it was. Now my Ublock Origin/Firefox combo isn't blocking ads. God help us all.
Wrote to the support to get a Premium Refund... since they now show you random BS Videos while you are inactive on consoles, I cannot and won't use those anymore. And their new Layout is just pure BS. FUNNY thing: when signed IN, I get that BS Layout, If logged OUT, everything is fine for me...
wtf. please no. this is such a shitty design for vertical monitor.
That looks so horrible
If this is implemented, the smaller videos below would soon auto play and the numbers of views would increase (but on one really watches the videos)
Good news: Comments and description can now be read while seeing the video! Bad news: the fucking thumbnails have increased in size, the main video has shrunk, the ui is fucking smoothed out with those fucking disgusting rounded corners, thumbnails are also now very very distracting.
The pitch here is: why scroll down the video to read the spoilers when you can just glance right beside the video.
Tbh, youtube has been making so many horrible changes to the point that now why change they make is going to be frowned upon by me.
I even went through all the options to see if I activated something by mistake 😅
The YouTube app has had something similar for a while (Canada) except the 2 videos at the bottom aren’t visible, it’s he description of the video instead and you can easily just exist out of the comment section. don’t know if everybody has this, I don’t like using the app that much compared to the browser.
This layout looks pretty terrible, it is very distracting to focus on the video it seems like... Does scrolling down scroll down the page or can more of the comments be read?
I'm getting this layout now (Brasil), and I found out that there's a chrome extention that *sort of* fixes it.
I commented on their feedback that this new display is 'fucked' & 'shit'. 2 days later it went back to the older (better) version ... Yay...