Seriously, what the fuck? I thought it was some kind of user interface glitch so I looked it up. Nope, they're A/B testing this shit.

Found this brilliant statement by Youtube on the matter:

Now note that we are deprecating one sorting option and that is by oldest video at the channel level. But don’t panic, you can still view the oldest video of a channel, by scrolling through it’s content’

Oh, yeah, just scroll to the bottom. Silly me, I guess I'm just a stupid idiot for not realizing the option was redundant since I can simply take the time to scroll through potentially thousands of videos.

Why are silicon valley tech people such freaks?

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I don't understand why they did this.

    I assume many (most?) people will say to themselves "Fuck it - I'll watch new videos instead." By directing people to newer videos - does Google make more money somehow?

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's Google. That's why. They don't want you opening a folder, and then grabbing a subfolder and paging through entries.

      They want you to search.

      They want you to always search.

      If YouTube hadn't been bought out by Google you'd have pages of videos. This is Google's own project to make sure YOU ALWAYS SEARCH.

    • jizzong [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I don’t understand why they did this.

      My guess is that it was requested by creators who feel like their old stuff isn't up to standards.

      Also a bit off topic but in my opinion the browser extention PocketTube is a must have for anyone who uses a lot of youtube. It adds a ton of useful features that it’s honestly embarrassing that google can't deliver something similar.

      • innocentlurker [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Maybe it was the advertisers and marketers that decided that the older stuff isn't up to standards. I really doubt YT cares what creators think any more than any other businesses or politicians; just enough to keep the status quo.

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      not sure if this is the #1 reason, but they're trying to put older, nearly never watched videos onto a cheaper servers optimized for archiving.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Any time you're scrolling, you're seeing more content and viewing ads for longer. The goal is to make YouTube as inefficient to use as possible.

      • SuperZutsuki [they/them, any]
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        2 years ago

        I actually didn't think about this because I've never seen an ad on YouTube and never will. The day ad blocking dies is the day I walk away from the internet.