Ben Brooks on Youtube
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 2:54PM Ben Brooks, while opining on Om Malik's comparison of the respective acquisitions of Instagram and Youtube by bigger companies, had this to say:
YouTube still can’t playback video smoothly, it still takes forever to load, it still looks like crap, it still has the worst — most hate filled — comments on the web. It is still a flash laden nightmare.
This is all true. Although Youtube has undergone many UI facelifts over the years, much of the site's usability has pretty much remained shit or gotten worse somehow . Their design team apparently enjoys getting rid of any feature that has ever made logical sense, and then either replaces those things with advertisements, or adds extra steps to what should be simple processes (managing playlists, for example).
No matter where you are on Youtube, there are always way too many UI elements on-screen to be useful and everything is just an ugly mess.
Simply put, Youtube is the Myspace of video sites. I can't wait for it to die.
