🐱 YouTube is testing hiding its comments section

YouTube is testing hiding its comments section

YouTube is currently testing a new feature on its Android mobile app that changes how users access the comment section by moving the comment section.

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YouTube is currently testing a new feature on its mobile app that changes how users access the comment section.

Instead of simply scrolling down to locate the comments, some Android users are now seeing a dedicated comments button right below the video. When clicked, users are taken to a completely separate page to see other users’ remarks.

It currently remains uncertain as to whether YouTube is attempting to make the comment section less prominent or more easily accessible. One one hand, a dedicated button at the top of the page could entice users to click. But having the comments on a different page altogether could make users less likely to visit.

In a statement to Engadget, YouTube confirmed ongoing tests but declined to state whether it was attempting to make comments more or less visible.

“We’re always experimenting with ways to help people more easily find, watch, share and interact with the videos that matter most to them,” a YouTube spokesperson said. “We are testing a few different options on how to display comments on the watch page. This is one of many small experiments we run all the time on YouTube, and we’ll consider rolling features out more broadly based on feedback on these experiments.”

While comment sections can increase public discourse, the feature can also cause issues. Just last March, YouTube disabled comments on videos of children after it was discovered that pedophiles were using the feature as a tool to communicate with each other.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

And nothing of value was lost

 

[UQ 770]

Wow, what a fucking surprise. How much do you want to bet that it was some sperg who wanted to post "First!" who first noticed this?

 

[Coolio55]

What if someone runs their own commenting site and just embeds the video? Kinda like what the retards at gab wanted to do?

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Jacksfilms is fucked

 

[Wraith]

I'm feeling the yid inside of me. What if you had a comment section tied to a bank account. For every comment you got charged a penny? MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Then the world will know how desperately you needed to tell the world such things as:
"Like if faggotron666esq brought you here"
"Like dis if u cry evrytyme"
AND THE WORLD SHATTERING:
"28 people r not cool enough to like dis video"
And then all the pennies went to me and the world clapped.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Jacksfilms is fucked

I lol'd.

He still has Twitter though.

 

[Roast Chicken]

I remember when IMDB took away the message boards, the site became a lot more boring; no more theories and discussions to read after seeing a film.

Same with YouTube. Granted, most comments are braindead slap fights between illiterate neanderthals but scroll long enough and there'll be some interesting gems to read that really contribute to a video.

And who's going to call out bullshit? There's fake news, science reports and hoaxes running rampant and no one will be able to dispute them unless they also make a video addressing it.

 

[Dick Justice]

Just in case anyone hasn't seen it yet. Seems pretty likely that google just considers commenting to be more trouble than it's worth (to them).

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Comments are like labor unions. If you're allowed to have them, they're shit and you'd be better off without them. If you're not allowed to have them, they're necessary and you'd be better off having them.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the shittiness of the "news site" corresponds pretty well with how early they disabled their comments. Usually those sites comments were along the lines of "This article is complete BS here's a link to the actual facts". You know, mixed in with "first" and "lol ur gay".