The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129368 Message #2903948
Posted By: Artful Codger
10-May-10 - 03:42 PM
Thread Name: YouTube have gone down the tube
Subject: RE: YouTube have gone down the tube
Yes, what Will said.
And just because a site is "free", it is not above criticism in how it implements features. If YouTube were a site developed by only a single person or small group, for a small coterie of users, we should be more content to take what we can get without complaint. But it's clear they have a sufficiently large staff that such poor design should not exist, nor should such deficiencies be tolerated passively by users.
From a wider perspective, I see a general trend in user interfaces to crap up the screen with extraneous, seldom used features while previously simple, useful and mainstream features become more difficult to use or are dropped. One has to wonder where these folks are picking up their guidance on good human interface design.