Comment by insin
4 days ago
Low _usable_ information density is one of the main things I made Control Panel for YouTube [^0] to tackle, especially in Subscriptions.
On a 1080p monitor, my unmodified Subscriptions page currently has 6 fully-visible thumbnails, consisting of 3 livestreams from people I only subscribe to for videos, 1 watched video, 1 stream VOD (which I'll never watch), and 1 unwatched video, so that's a score of 1/6. Scroll down and you start getting into more watched videos, stream VODs, the unwanted Shorts shelf, thumbnails for Upcoming videos (i.e. videos which can't be watched), and videos from people I don't even subscribe to (via YouTube's recently-added Collaborations feature).
With everything in Control Panel for YouTube enabled and a minium of 5 videos per row configured, I have 15 unwatched or partially watched (up to a configurable %) videos every time. Same thing for Home, in which other things I don't want such as Mixes and Playlists can also be hidden.
It also tends to have fixes for the other things people rightfully complain about when YouTube comes up in these threads, such as (reads down the page) blocking ads and hiding promoted content, hiding Shorts everywhere, automatically switching to the original audio for auto-dubbed videos, hiding Related videos when they appear below the video pushing comments even further down, fixing the new oversized video controls and huge videos in the Related sidebar, etc. etc.
> On a 1080p monitor…
There’s your problem. You have normal hardware. The rich SV folks at google are probably all using 6k monitors. (only half joking)
Even on expensive, high-res screens, the homepage looks like this: https://i.k8r.eu/YOHPqQ.png
It's so immensely frustrating to be frequently insulted by how little companies are obviously spending on QA these days while being out of a (UX dev) job for two years.
Many of these violations of my sanity could be fixed with less than 50 tokens worth of code.
It's the same issue on big screens. I have a ultra wide 2k, and in full screen I only have 3 videos on the homepage.
I love this, thank you so much for building this!
I didn't know I wanted 6 videos in a row, but now that I have it, it's so much better. Also linking youtube logo to subscriptions is great.
This is so awesome! This is why I love the desktop, my machine is still mine.