🐱 YouTube is testing hiding its comments section

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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.
 
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They better bring back pages in the comments section, as well as comment history (like YT had in the old days). It's a pain to sift through the comments section and find specific comments due to modern YT's bad "pageless" design for the comments section.
 
Comments sections are only valuable for small time creators to engage with their fans. TV didn't have a comment section, and yOutube desperately wants to be CBSNBCABC in 1960
 
I've got a better idea: Mandatory altruism. To be eligible for commenting on YT, you first have to donate blood, money or excess clothes to charities. You get a month of commenting privileges, and after that you gotta be a nice guy for a bit again before you can go back to being the kind of turd that comments on YouTube.
 
Clop said:
I've got a better idea: Mandatory altruism. To be eligible for commenting on YT, you first have to donate blood, money or excess clothes to charities. You get a month of commenting privileges, and after that you gotta be a nice guy for a bit again before you can go back to being the kind of turd that comments on YouTube.
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Only so long as those charities do not serve ypipo
 
Ped Xing said:
Comments sections are only valuable for small time creators to engage with their fans. TV didn't have a comment section, and yOutube desperately wants to be CBSNBCABC in 1960
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Disagree. Thats what youtube wants but audience engagement is key to, for instance, streamers. Youtube is building its own competition with dumb moves like these. Old media is desperate to turn itself into social media, and here these guys are trying to do the opposite.
 
Lou Wrong said:
Disagree. Thats what youtube wants but audience engagement is key to, for instance, streamers. Youtube is building its own competition with dumb moves like these. Old media is desperate to turn itself into social media, and here these guys are trying to do the opposite.
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I didn't know Disney was so concerned with getting superchat shekels
 
After today's Veritas release, I hope Youtube/Google are shattered into a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds. Fuck em.
 
I already use YT Magic Actions to make comments disappear so whatever.
 
I'm not surprised considering how YouTube themselves have been shutting down comment sections both with the pedo scare and then later "Greetings from New Zealand" jokes on Initial D soundtrack videos. If the comment section can't be what YouTube wants you to see, nobody can comment. I've seen this trend on news sites too as the comment boxes tended to mock the articles instead of praising them blindly.

Lou Wrong said:
Disagree. Thats what youtube wants but audience engagement is key to, for instance, streamers. Youtube is building its own competition with dumb moves like these. Old media is desperate to turn itself into social media, and here these guys are trying to do the opposite.
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The problem is, trying to host your own video site is a money losing endeavor and that's before the financial censorship issues come into play. Just ask Vidme's staff or look at all the documented times YouTube was losing money. Google is going to eat the cost of running YouTube if it gives them power over the public space. Null even wrote an article about this very thing as well.
 
Ron /pol/ said:
Thank God, please just remove the comment section entirely. It's a waste of bandwidth and all people do with it is make cringy stale jokes or get into really long arguments.
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Who's reading this comment in 2019?!?! @CatParty brought me here. Also, I wish there were still comments like this these days, I swear I was born at the wrong time!
 
Honestly don't have a problem with this. It's not even really a free speech issue. Totally unmoderated comments are bad, period.
 
They should've done this like a decade ago. YouTube's comment section devolved into like 98% garbage once the platform got more popular
 
I expected more comments about how it's censorship to not display "like if you're watching this in 2019" under every video.
 
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