Seriously, whoever is in charge of Youtube's comment system is a complete idiot of galactic proportions.
Every time they update the comment system, it doesn't get better, it just gets stranger. As if the person in charge of it has no clue how people interact online.
The comment system, as I see it, should be very simple:
1) Comments are shown as a tree (with limited depth possibly)
2) Upvote/downvote/reply/flag-as-spam on every comment.
3) Sort by top / new (would be nice within today, week, month, year, ever).
4) Limit comment length to something sensible like 10K characters, if you want your users to have meaningful discussions.
Agreed, normally the UI/UX changes that people get so cross about at least seem to be in aid of making the way users interact with something more intuitive and/or simpler.
This is none of those things. As to point number 4, the top comment on that video is a fairly complete script for the movie "Braveheart" >.>
I'm amazed this is the only link about this major change on HN with any comments that I can see.
Everything about this update is a mess. Requiring linked G+ account without properly informing users (causing mass confusion), the visual clutter that is bolded hashtags and G+ usernames, and removal of 'In reply to x user' link (resulting in having to guess what it's a reply to in long threads)... Ugh.
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The comment system, as I see it, should be very simple:
1) Comments are shown as a tree (with limited depth possibly)
2) Upvote/downvote/reply/flag-as-spam on every comment.
3) Sort by top / new (would be nice within today, week, month, year, ever).
4) Limit comment length to something sensible like 10K characters, if you want your users to have meaningful discussions.
That's it.
This is none of those things. As to point number 4, the top comment on that video is a fairly complete script for the movie "Braveheart" >.>
Everything about this update is a mess. Requiring linked G+ account without properly informing users (causing mass confusion), the visual clutter that is bolded hashtags and G+ usernames, and removal of 'In reply to x user' link (resulting in having to guess what it's a reply to in long threads)... Ugh.
PS: nice to see a Gopher fan ;)