Why is there such a mania for reducing sort/finest options?
They carry such a small cognitive load and are of immense value to many, many use cases.
Who decides these things?
They carry such a small cognitive load and are of immense value to many, many use cases.
Who decides these things?
From an engagement standpoint, the ideal Youtube is one where you can't actually view a list of videos from a specific channel at all. Or search for videos. Or anything really that isn't just watching whatever set of videos the algorithm thinks will maximize your engagement at that time.
The web in general is moving in this direction at a fast pace and the cause for all of this is one thing: phones. That's it. There's an increasingly massive number of people that spend hours a day staring at their phones mindlessly scrolling through tiktok, twitter, etc. to waste their time away when they have nothing better to do, simply consuming whatever content is fed to them, giving absolutely no thought to what they're seeing beyond how much it entertains them in that moment. They don't want to look for specific videos, they don't want to watch a specific channel, they just want to be kept busy by an algorithm. These people are insanely easy to please and will consume for hours at a time, watching plenty of ads. The more people start behaving like this, the more money these platforms make.
True, with an exception of Mastodon, PeerTube, Matrix and other distributed networks based on free software.
I can imagine a "Watch Later" product owner thinking that if he removes a certain control, he can game the stats and say the feature is seeing more use - securing his promotion.
We see this in public administration all the time, no reason to think private enterprise would be any different.
Having written that, I realize my YT usage is fairly low on search and I feel myself being forced towards it more and more in recent months/years.
Apple started the minimalist, option hiding, functionality axing, 1984-ish control freak movement. They even got away with selling phones without chargers, making $40 billion on lightning cables sales.
Just blame Apple.
I don’t know a single person in my bubble who needs more lightning cables. I have a dozen unused lightning cables already laying around.
I threw away every pair of headphones that came with an iPhone I have ever bought. Most of mini/micro usb cables that come with small electronics go into trash - I do not need more cables!
???? That's literally exactly what the point of every business decision is.
It’s not always a conspiracy to make more money.
If you need one there are plenty of options, including affordable 3rd party options.
Cynically it’s probably a way to adjust for inflation or whatever by keeping the same price but reducing the amount of stuff you get.
Someone commented this yesterday but the calculation was crap. What source do you have?
Are there books on how to play the game?
But I never had a hostile manager really. Some coworkers though. Most people were more than decent.
It's just... a hard environment to get used to if you're not inclined to think in a big-organizational way.
At the same time, there is some pipe dream that the app can just give the user a 100% ideal experience with virtually no input on the user's part. What this really means is less optionality for users who want it.
Lastly, in any company there are going to be people fighting against complexity to keep things maintainable, scalable etc. The product gets sacrificed for the organization.
On that hand: Google never cares about feedback, you can't submit it, if you can it gets ignored.
Personally, I hardly use YouTube unless I follow a direct link. I have also disabled all feeds, comments, and suggestions using uBlock Origin.
If you expect that people are stupid you will get stupid interfaces.
There is just no way to endlessly improve a UI. At some point if you have 3K people work on it it will become a hot mess.
Yes. A sane person or organization must be able to make judgements that include values other than narrow metrics.
If your engagement numbers told you to jump off a bridge, would you?
So far I have not encountered a single big tech company that is able to factor in values into decision making at this level. I don’t know whether we even have the tools for that. The incentives (promos, bonuses), company size (internal competition, changing ownership, focus on growth), being public (relentless growth), etc, etc - all of that contributes to this outcome.
Personally I prefer a more thoughtful and caring approach to introducing changes, but knowing how the industry works I don’t see a lot of space for that.
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