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Inb4 youtube is bad for a million other reasons. Yes I know, most of them are ameliorated by extremely heavy adblocking, that's not what this is about.

In the last couple days, youtube has completely forgotten how to format a basic grid layout. Look at those inconsistent gaps between thumbnails, look at those misaligned columns, what the fuck is going on here?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I stopped using it after they asked history to be on. For me now the page is empty. I just use freetube. Solid app. Just my subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you can just deny the ask and still use subscriptions. but Freetube is pretty slick ngl so fair enough

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It just says this there's no deny. I'm not gonna use the subscriptions there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah you just, don't turn it back on, that page doesn't do anything it just doesn't give you a homepage with algorithmic recommendeds, you have to click on subscriptions to get to your subscriptions.

but freetube is superior so you got the right idea anyhow lmao. I'm one of those weird nerds who watches most of my youtube through youtube-dl (well, yt-dlp now)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't like the subscriptions shit anyway. I use ytdlp for a lot of things.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The entire corporate internet is seemingly breaking

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

It always is at all times

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Blocked ads causing misalignment?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

The ablockers haven't changed, maybe youtube's ad embedding has

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure it's this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Looks fine to me, but I'm backendsighted

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

World's strongest CSS frontend developer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Retvrn to table based layouts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I REPLACED MY TOOTHPASTE WITH CUM soypoint-1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I try to keep my cursor in those channels as I scroll so that nothing plays while it assumes I’m hovering. I bet those hovers count as plays and this makes engagement look higher.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What I suspect is happening here is that it's using a flexbox instead of a grid. I'm guessing it has a flex direction of row (horizontal left to right), uses flex wrap, and has each video thumbnail have a flex basis to keep them around the same size. It probably makes it easier to look good enough at most screen sizes without needing to have a bunch of media queries change the number of columns at different screen sizes, at the cost of things not always being perfectly aligned. Probably a good tradeoff compared to the alternative tbh.