Why do websites keep making stupid updates?
*COUGH*youtube *COUGH*
First youtube
then facebook
and now google is changing its search engine
February 6, 2014
Why do websites keep making stupid updates?
*COUGH*youtube *COUGH*
First youtube
then facebook
and now google is changing its search engine
7 Comments • Newest first
@itstinyeye [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c-Ne0uzCV4]MRW seeing the changes was getting overhand[/url]
[quote=Gyroscope]He has a valid point. Companies should listen to user feedback in order to better their service/product. Also they're not technically free products in a sense. For example, Google and Youtube make money off users by ads.[/quote]
Hence I posted free* instead of free. I should mention that your personal information is worth a lot more to Google than ad money, which comes indirectly from leeching your preferences.
And if we're talking about YouTube (since it's clearly what OP is emphasizing), there's nothing significantly wrong about it -- minus the comments system Google needs to remove completely from existence. I've been using the site since early 2006 with an account circa 2007, and every single time there's even a remote change to the interface, the community goes batsit insane over it. Developers don't purposely make their product worse; there's absolutely no reason to do so. Also, the most negative and vocal group about these YouTube updates are teenagers Google doesn't care about. You can even tell Google doesn't care about teenagers after they held firm on the new commenting system, despite all the infantile spam that went on for weeks. If you can't cater to everybody, cater to the people that have the biggest wallets (i.e. not unemployed high school students).
@Keane: Start using YouTube Center.
[quote=Yumtoast]No one is forcing you to use free* products.
Stop using those sites if they're 2stupid4u.[/quote]
He has a valid point. Companies should listen to user feedback in order to better their service/product. Also they're not technically free products in a sense. For example, Google and Youtube make money off users by ads.
I am glad they rolled-back the mobile version of youtube
this always happens, at first it's like "OMG WTF CHANGE, NO! STOP IT" after a couple days/weeks, people get used to it
"oh this is pretty cool"
Change is good.
Unless it's Youtube. That was bad.
No one is forcing you to use free* products.
Stop using those sites if they're 2stupid4u.