- Multiple times a day I accidentally click another video and try to go back to previous video and lose the position (they used to have a confirmation dialog to play another video when you already have something playing, got rid of it for some reason.
- I used to be able to Chromecast to TV with a casting playlist, where I'd easily add and remove videos, change order. I was able to disconnect from TV and continue watching, later connect to TV again. They completely messed it up. Now it's even worse they created multiple "play on device" and it's so awkward to add videos to queue.
- when I play a video, why doesn't it continue downloading the entire video so I watch it offline. I need to specifically download and it doesn't save the position properly.
- playing videos offline doesn't always remembers position and doesn't keep track of played.
- previews reset the watched position of videos and litters watched history with videos you didn't actually watch.
- notifications are useless, it doesn't notify me of videos I specifically subscribed to and want notifications for.
Sorry for the rant. It just so happens YouTube is where I consume most of my content.
The "Watch Later" feature also needs a lot of love. The button for it constantly moves around and works in different ways.
They do occasionally fix things! One thing they fixed recently is that advancing to the next video in a playlist would always start from the beginning, irreversibly clobbering your watch position for that video. Now it seems to (most of the time) start from your watch position.
Not exactly what you talked about but comment notifications are useless. There's no way to have only x-replied-to-you-in-thread. You either get notified about everything, ever - or you get no notifications
Product designers: fuck off. You are doing an absolutely shit job
And thinking that auto-generated English is somehow a different language than English, so whenever a video only has captions in the 'other language' than the last video, it decides to offer captions in the video's original language, which I don't speak (yet), which is why I turned captions on in the first place.
This ties into an overall bias of Youtube against people speaking (or learning to speak) more than one language. Surely some of the developers speak more than one language?
Though, from a technical point of view it is top. Always working. Always crisp.
Spotify now has podcasts and videos and it’s all a lot less that screen-free, just-music space I wanted my kids to have.
Now I can either vibe-code a replacement and start pirating or just deal with it? What a terrible deal.
If this is iOS on one of the recent releases there is at least one apple bug I know of that causes this.
But it could also just be the youtube app :)