Current Events > Youtubes new layout

(+) Yeah! (+)

Not sure if this should go here but I noticed that Youtube has changed the layout of how the page looks when watching videos. The comments are no longer directly below the video, but crammed all the was to the side. I HATE how it is now. Is there a way to change it back to how it was?

so they made it harder to navigate again?

All I've found is this uBlock Origin script:

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid, false)

Click the little icon, click the gear then past it in My Filters. It worked for me but the spacing is slightly off. Still better than that mess they "updated" to.

Vyrulisse posted...

All I've found is this uBlock Origin script:

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid, false)

Click the little icon, click the gear then past it in My Filters. It worked for me but the spacing is slightly off. Still better than that mess they "updated" to.

Is the ")" typo or should that be included?

Must be on the browser version. Haven't noticed anything on the app.

GuerillaGorilla posted...

Must be on the browser version. Haven't noticed anything on the app.

my youtube still looks the same on both

I send a report about the bad chat placement every time I see it, if I have to get annoyed by it, so do youtube workers

I had it hit me this morning, with the further bug that it caused the full screen and theater mode buttons to vanish after a second of video playback.

I use YouTube Redux. Imagine it hasn't had time to update for this. Hopefully that changes soon.

I got this a month ago and then they changed back. Did they change back to the side comments again?

DKBananaSlamma posted...

I got this a month ago and then they changed back. Did they change back to the side comments again?

Yep, the comments are at the side and very narrow. This is the first time it has happened to me, so they must be testing this layout in different regions for a set amount of time or something. Whatever the case that uBlock fix helped.

Still looks the same as before for me on the browser version. My guess is that they are rolling out changes to favor how it's watched on phones and just applying to all versions. Stupid companies do this and don't engage in actual user feedback before doing it and it just ends up a complete mess. Marvel did that a while back with Marvel Unlimited and almost completely destroyed the app and it took months and months of updates to fix it and it's still missing a few features it had before they "improved" it.

omg this hit me just now. Bumping this so others will see this post.

Vyrulisse posted...

All I've found is this uBlock Origin script:

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid, false)

Click the little icon, click the gear then past it in My Filters. It worked for me but the spacing is slightly off. Still better than that mess they "updated" to.

Get the Youtube Enhancer extension