>Say hello to your Community tab! (So long, Discussion tab)
YouTube is such a piece of shit. The discussion tab was great, especially on older channels. It was such a time capsule because nobody used it after 2014 or something, and so everything in it was left as is. It's just a lot of fun seeing how innocent people in YouTube were a decade ago, it was vintage autism. At pretty much any point you could go over to a random old channel and delve into a rabbit hole of drama or whatever from the discussions tab. The way people talked was exactly as all those old internet screenshots and copypastas make it out to be. You can still see part of this from simply going to old videos and checking the comment sections out, of course, but it's just that the discussions tab was an advanced level of the 'tismo. Probably because things got more personal in it.
Beyond that, I suppose you could check out old internet forums and such if you needed your fill of old internet sightseeing, which are still pretty good, but even then it's just not the same content. I guess that's because they were a little bit harder to get to, as opposed to YouTube where every single retard was already congregated, and that just made for fun.
Oh, and not to forget the fucking sub for sub people. They loved the discussions tab for that. It was good because it was retards having to manually advertise rather than having bots do it for them.
I myself liked to check some specific ones back every once in a while and read. Too bad that I can't anymore.
They already did away with discussions from the UI a long time ago, but I think you could still access it by just changing the URL. Now, they've removed that as well. As if it hurt anybody or anything to have that option for whoever wants it. And they're being smug about it, too. They put that little bit of text there intentionally to taunt people who remember what discussions were, because it's not like that's a lot of them.
And this was with something that people actually cared about. There was a big enough backlash once they removed annotations, but of course, they didn't care. I think some people actually made extensions to bring them back, but I have no idea if that works well or not.
The discussion tab on the other hand, I'm probably one of the handful people who cared for it. Aaa.
I was actually leaning towards YouTube not being that bad still, until now. That smug ass jab towards the discussion tab does it. I hate these people.
But, makes me think more about it.
This is just one thing, but infuriates me and goes all the way to show how insufferable these people are.
You know how you could sort videos by oldest to newest? How it made life much easier when you wanted to find older videos somebody made, but their channel had a lot of stuff to go through? Or if you just wanted to see the first videos ever somebody put out, for fun? If you didn't, well, a lot of people did. And it was pretty cool. Having to manually scroll through all that stuff is more of a bother than it sounds, especially on mobile because of their app being such garbage. I guess it's only a slight thorn on PC, but yeah, when it comes to mobile even scrolling through small channels is a huge hassle. But no matter, because you can just order videos by the order you want, right?
Except not. They removed it. The motherfuckers. You can't sort videos by oldest anymore, only most popular and most recent. Somebody made the conscious decision to remove this option. They either thought about it, or didn't, I don't know which would be worse. Thought about it means they had a reason they figured to be acceptable, and didn't think about it means they just fucked with stuff for no reason.
You'd figure that a normal site designer would like to give their users options for convenience, and add things like this rather than remove them, right? But these aren't normal people. The demons over at YouTube are insane.
Just how does this change benefit anybody, in any way? How fucking petty can you get? You already had it in as an option before. You didn't need to touch anything, it was already perfect. But you just had to go ahead and meddle with random shit, just because you can, I guess? It's not like it's a big change, or anything. It's just this one small thing that was there to save people's time when they needed it.