The saddest part of Youtube is when they disabled comments on the music channels... No discussion allowed.
alongside, yaknow, comments under music talking about how good the music is and life stories, i miss those videos that were filled to the brim with annotations that the videos got completely covered in them, they were the fucking best
My favorite things about this:
A) they claimed they got rid of it because they couldn't make it work on mobile. which is nothing - just make it desktop only. nobody is going to be confused that a physically impossible feature doesn't work on mobile
B) it was the last feature left that you could use to issue corrections. it is now impossible. if you make a mistake in a video, you're married to it forever. deleting the video and reuploading is completely out of the question for a laundry list of reasons, nobody reads descriptions or comments. you're simply fucked. YouTube knows this and does not care. They even introduced a pathetic, insulting "corrections" feature last year that nobody has or will ever use because it's nonsensical. So they know there's a problem, and will not be doing anything about it.
In related news, here's this ubiquitous behavior of massive software companies that fucks us all over weekly:
- create feature X
- it gets used by 98% of users. 15,000,000, say
- 300,000,000 new users appear
- feature X is still used by 15,000,000 people. but now that's only 20% of the userbase!
- it's silly to support something only 20% of people use! time to delete it
being treated as numbers isn't bad. it's being treated as small numbers. it's very easy to look at "10%" and go, oh, nobody cares about this feature. it's much harder to say that about "150,000,000 people," which is probably the number that didn't want Microsoft to remove 60% of the taskbar options in windows 11.
and sometimes you can see this error being realized after the fact. Microsoft is slowly reintroducing all the taskbar features they removed. they are probably getting told by friends of developers "you're out of your minds, what alien told you that nobody wants taskbar button labels?" and slowly, sheepishly putting that shit back in. yet they won't learn, and next month they'll remove something else that only "one percent" of a BILLION people use.
