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Ask HN: Infuriating UI design decisions

1 pointsby edbloomover 12 years ago
I've HAD it with Youtube UI redesigns. For the last several UI iterations, they've tried to force a new UI and user experience on users where one of the most common use cases, browsing by Popularity in the last X (i.e. Day, Week, Month) has been almost removed from the site (there is a sub standard experience via Charts). For years this was how I used youtube - go see what is popular now/recently. Now they're trying to force a channel based experience on to users - confusing a f<i></i>ktonne of their userbase.<p>Clearly this is a case of the big G trying to optimize Youtube revenues but if anything it significantly diminishes how long I spend on youtube as a property. It strikes me as the kind of dumbass thinking that you might expect to see at an "old world media" conglomerate trying to keep a struggling dot com era venture alive - and not the actions of an Internet powerhouse with some of the smartest people on the planet.<p>Is it just me or does this piss anyone else off?<p>I'm really interested to know what other examples people have of infuriating UI decisions that just mess up a perfectly good product?

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