I think you folks are finally coming around to fact that communicating with users is in your best interest. This is welcome and positive step. Now if you could just convince the engineers to test their changes on a limited scope before releasing changes on the entire network I think everyone would benefit. I not prepared to thank you for giving back something you obviously took away. The excuse that "technical reasons" resulted in these problems is your typical response. Test PRIOR to making changes, then true technical issues can be resolved beforehand. Communication before changes are implemented would also be a welcome change.
Great. Now bring back ALL of the categories. You only have the "featured" videos, which most people have no interest in watching. We want to be able to find the "little guy"
It's good that you're (finally) responding on this issue, but I'll hold my thanks until the functionality is actually restored. Also, you could have posted this 5 minutes after you updated the site instead 5 days or whatever it is now...
Oh my gosh,someone sent me a message saying this, and I thought she was just teasing me.Thank you so much youtube for trying to get them back. The intent means a lot!!!!Hope it is a success!! sonya :)
Well maybe someone is listening. But this was no accident. I don't think things will ever be the same. Maybe we will even like some of the changes. But the damage was done and now we know they can never be trusted. They have their own agenda and we may never know the "rest of the story"
Quote(Response): It was actually not our intention to take this helpful function away from you. (But you obviously KNEW or you would not have Ok'ed it, yet no one says anything for 5 days) There were technical reasons this had to happen in the short-term ("TECHNICAL RESAONS"?!? I can imagine going to my boss and saying "We're ready for that upgrade, but it's going to criple the system and piss off most of our users." I guess if I worked at YouTube he'd just say, "That's OK, we just wont say anything about it and come up with somthing later."), but the good news is that we're working hard on a solution to bring it back (It's called a BACK-UP. Restore the previous system and quit trying to split up the world community. This isn't a search engine!). More news when we have it(took 5 days to come up with this lame excuse), and thanks so much for your patience in the meantime (uh, your welcome?).
Ill be glad to see them return, but I think the reason behind their initial disappearance where obvious, and they miscalcutated the ammount of disent the decession would cause. Boycott stands until they are back...whilst Im pleased that apparently the power of YOUtube still resides in with the voice of the people, this was a strike against us that we shall not forget...you've been tainted and we'll have to deal with it.
Amazing... nobody commenting here has a clue. Sometimes you HAVE to change portions of the architecture to effect other changes in the database and supporting code. Over react much?
ok, so they had to "change portions of the architecture to effect other changes in the database and supporting code" couldn't this have been tested and debuged offline?
If spamming is the problem, address spamming - don't eliminate a helpful and useful feature. Thanks for addressing this problem, but I agree it looks a little fishy that it took so long to respond to such an enormous outcry - couldn't you have forseen?
Thank you for answering our question. I'm glad to hear that the categories will be back as they give a voice to the YouTube community and make YouTube unique.
I'm happy to hear you are bringing categories back. I doubt very much that this was just a temporary thing, but at least you were listening to those of us who cared about them.
What happens when companies converge? There's always some young buck who wants to make a mark and make things "better". Don't fix what ain't broke.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this is the truth and not just PR damage control, but please don't wait so long before responding to such an issue next time. And if you knew that this was going to happen, at least put out a warning prior to it. Thanks.
Plans were already underway to hold live demos & protests at your YouTube offices in San Bruno. Please don't jerk your viewers around like this in future. Arrive at a solution soon.
Thanks for finally responding. Please eliminate featured videos from receiving honors, it gives far too much an added advantage over other people's videos who are popular without the "boost". Also, please create more categories. One specifically for religion would be awesome! Another would be a science channel.
If it was me, I'd go back to having a working site and then try to add your new features. I like browsing through the "most recent" videos but enough is enough. I find myself spending a lot more time at liveleak now.
You are on notice. Pretty much we (your users and money makers(without us you get no adverstising dollars))need category listings back this week or YouTube will be embarrassed, belittled and will become irrelevent in a few short weeks. You have put yourself in the spotlight, with the CNN debates. Seems like if the spotlight were to move left a little we could easily see every other network covering how dedicated YouTube and Google are about free speech. Especially in China. This is Googles second cover up this week. The first being Google fussing about the restrictions some are trying to put on the net. Oh so sorry google not he restrictions you wanted. Those restrictions dont give you the leverage you need to manipulate the free creative content given to you for free to profit off of. This was nothing but a failed attempt to control freely created info. You all need to do a better job of fixing it than that poor explanation. You have lost credibility with a large portion of your users. This has pushed a large #of your users to explore alternative options and they are finding they offer better services without all this corp political BS. You need to realize that most people can see through the BS now and we will not sit and watch. We will just leave and you will be no more. This is not intended as a threat just a commentary on how MOST users feel. We are not sheep nor blind.
Thank you for owning up to the problem. I'm not the only one who like browsing the categories. (Only because what is on the most viewed list is usually crap.)
The YouTube "team" took far too long to even address the issue and post a reply. And how embarassing that one of the so-called biggest tech companies in the world can't beta test and THEN role out changes/updates. It's rather pathetic that it took so long to post this information.
I'm not sure I'll stay here even if you do "fix" the so-called "glitch". Funny...renatto knew about the "glitch" a couple of days ago. I guess some members have more clout than others. You did a poor job of communicating with the YouTube community. Not that you care what I think. Why bother with a "feedback" option if no one reads it and responds?
If you are sincere, then you'll have this problem corrected within one or two days from today, Sat June 23, 2007. If it takes any longer, I'll just search elsewhere.
I agree with spazznout and others. YouTube as a company "manipulates the free creative content given to you... to profit from." That part was understood; you were stepping on the little guy, you were using him to get a leg-up, you reaped all kinds of benefits, and now to thank the little guy, you attempt to grind him into the dirt. Let's make it very clear: we will not tolerate this kind of treatment. Fix the problem soon or we will organize! BOYCOTTS, EDITORIALS, LIVE DEMO/PROTESTS.
I never thought the lack of categories was deliberate. Stuff happens when you update a site and sometimes it takes time to fix. Give them a break!
I'd still like to see an 'international' front page with secondary 'national' ones though. As an Australian, if I were to get a featured video (not likely but just hypothetically) on which page would it be posted? Does this mean that featured videos are only for the Irish/American/UK videos now (and the other, non-English pages?) If you could get back to us on this point it would make a lot of things much clearer to me.
I have been a software designer/Tech for more years that I care to mention. When I read "technical reasons this HAD to happen in the short-term", my fellow Tech geeks here at ".....Soft" and I cried B.S.! A Sort Link program is basic programing 101, but does have a cost (computing space and run time) to maintain and operate properly. Sounds like you dumped it on the roll out to save a few $$$ and then sat back to see if anyone would notice (sad to say a little trick done here). Guess what...WE noticed. This should be FIXED in days or something is fishy in TUBE town.
not only bring it back but expand it to 250 videos instead of 100 for each catagory. This give new people more of chance to be discovered and will help viewers find the things they are interested in.
There you go YouTube that would be a great way to let us users know you are not all about corporate CENSORSHIP for profit. Expand the top vids in each category to 250 vids. This will defiantly give the impression at least that you care about the content we all provide. Show your users you have heard us and do care about your content creators. You are in a catch 22 here. You depend on the same people to generate as well as consume the product you are selling, a venue for advertising. With this business model you could collaps in weeks if you screw the balance up. It almost happened a few months back. To fix that you put a number of content creators on your payroll. That worked once but I have to tell you those few paid people provide less than 1% of the viewed content here.
i think there's a problem with the updating the views as well? its been over 24 hours and video views haven't updated.
Jamie
P.S. i know i should post this under the feedback button that's usually in the bottom right corner of the screen but it was replaced with a "presidential debate" button
So what is the projected date for restoring all the features? I worked in software for 22 years. You have one. What is it?
I am looking forward to the honors system returning to News and Politics. I got my first honors only the week before the disaster, and I was elated. Uncertainty causes anxiety. What is the estimated date of release?
So what is the projected date for restoring all the features? I worked in software for 22 years. You have one. What is it?
I am looking forward to the honors system returning to News and Politics. I got my first honors only the week before the disaster, and I was elated. Uncertainty causes anxiety. What is the estimated date of release?
Thanks. Hope you are also still "working on a solution" to the problem with videos not loading ever since you put the new player into effect... it's been WEEKS now, people.
Thanks. Hope you are also still "working on a solution" to the problem with videos not loading ever since you put the new player into effect... it's been WEEKS now, people.
Well. That's a great news. But I hate the "Videos being watched now" and WATCH 3.0.
WATCH 3.0 is messy and ugly, the images beside the links don't match YouTube's color scheme. The caption is hid under the video. Related videos is too simple. "USERNAME"'s channel is useless. We all can click USERNAME's username and see his/her channel.
Well. That's a great news. But I hate the "Videos being watched now" and WATCH 3.0.
WATCH 3.0 is messy and ugly, the images beside the links don't match YouTube's color scheme. The caption is hid under the video. Related videos is too simple. "USERNAME"'s channel is useless. We all can click USERNAME's username and see his/her channel.
I hope that you are being truthful about it being a "mistake." I am however very happy that you cats are listening to the people that made you f*ckers rich. We are your bread and butter, we provide free content and you reap the rewards, we ALL know this. It is Youtube that had better recognize. Oh yeah, did the guys at Liveleak send over a thank you card?
I hope that you are being truthful about it being a "mistake." I am however very happy that you cats are listening to the people that made you f*ckers rich. We are your bread and butter, we provide free content and you reap the rewards, we ALL know this. It is Youtube that had better recognize. Oh yeah, did the guys at Liveleak send over a thank you card?
Whoa! Hold your red pants there Flash! It took only over 4 days to address the issue on your blog? Response time like that means you must have broken some psychical laws. RooOOock! Oh, wait...
Thanks for the update. It means a lot to your "customers" out here to know that you a) listen, b) tell us what's up and, c) give us a chance to tell you what we think about what you've said.
This is relief to read your statement on the Matter! I am glad that they are coming back! This feature alone makes youtube so very unique to all other video sharing sites!
Hey, while your engineers are working feverishly to resurrect the categories, could you please also remove the "Videos being watched right now"? Like, kill this stupid and worthless feature right now! PLEASE!!!!!
There are kids coming to Youtube and they don't need to have porn forcefed to them. Lesbian sex, upskirts, buttocks and boobs are not what they need to see.
Really disappointed in you this time, Youtube.
GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!!
Thanks for the response, i gathered from the silence that this was a difficult problem that you intended to address. However, i would ask that next time there is a significant problem like this you officially address it proptly, rather than carrying on posting with the elephant in the room...i`m sure everyone just wanted this post a few days ago, that could have been done couldnt it?
Once again I thank you for listening to us and responding to us. You are getting much better at this. It is a good thing for the whole YouTube community.
I'm happy that you plan on fixing the category browsing issue, but I think I'm happier that you actually responded to the community with an update! Please keep us informed.
While you are fixing the Categories stuff that could you also fix the NO incrementing of the counters! The counters have stopped as of 23/06/2007 again!
I don't believe this wasn't a deliberate action. but hopefully you have understood how everyone on here feels. Stop disrespecting everyone that makes money for you guys! this used to be an awesome site, but honestly every week it becomes more and more ridiculous.. and corporate.. bring the fucking categories back and stop fucking everybody around!
Thank goodness you finally said something about us. We were starting to think you were ignoring us. I don't believe for one secodn that this was a "technical problem". Lets just hope that you do bring back everything the way it used to be.
Same shit different day. There explanation is total BS meant to pacify the masses. I don't believe a billion dollar company dosen't have the resources to fix what ever they want asap. I do want to thank YT though for making me go find some other cool vid sites. The hayday of YT is over. RIP
in addition to bringing back the categories... i suggest adding a new feature called something like ROUNDROBIN... where 100 videos from each category are randomly selected for a day. You could add it to the Time filter as a fifth choice.
***technical reasons my ass>>> Thanks for your email. We've recently made a few changes to our site. We've added some new features and replaced a few others. The search by category feature is no longer available. This has been replaced by the option to search based on "Relevance", "Date Added", "View Count" and "Rating". Sincerely, Kshema The YouTube Team
Ditto the comment below from firangi4u - view counters seem frozen. - Plus - a) what happened to total views for all my videos?
b) the "beta" view page lacks a "playlist" column with the "related" amd "more from this user." It needs to come back.
Apparently YT thinks it can throw any old stuff at the millions of users and that we'll accept it; their ridiculous changes to the site are designed to attract favorable response from the corporate media to whom YT is whoring itself. These are mostly "suits" - old media types who in the grand tradition of networks and record companies think that they can make the public eat whatever garbage they serve up. A little more of this and they'll learn a major lesson in new media, as users/uploaders vote with their feet (fingers, in this case) and head for LiveVideo, DailyMotion, Veoh, and any other site that is more consumer-friendly.
Ditto the comment below from firangi4u - view counters seem frozen. - Plus - a) what happened to total views for all my videos?
b) the "beta" view page lacks a "playlist" column with the "related" amd "more from this user." It needs to come back.
Apparently YT thinks it can throw any old stuff at the millions of users and that we'll accept it; their ridiculous changes to the site are designed to attract favorable response from the corporate media to whom YT is whoring itself. These are mostly "suits" - old media types who in the grand tradition of networks and record companies think that they can make the public eat whatever garbage they serve up. A little more of this and they'll learn a major lesson in new media, as users/uploaders vote with their feet (fingers, in this case) and head for LiveVideo, DailyMotion, Veoh, and any other site that is more consumer-friendly.
The American version of the site is the only one working. The UK one's recent subscription videos don't work, the updates havn't been implemented, I can no longer watch the american featured videos (Which seem to be far better than the english ones)....
Separate youtube into languages NOT country's... this is pathetic.
Are You Listening YouTube this latest f-up is pushing you into the abyss. You would be best leaving he old media out of this arena of new media. Here we have the control not you. Users create the majority of viewed content. If folks want to see cable TV they will watch their TV. Wonder when the media is gonna pick up this story? wont you be in trouble then. Ill answer that....... YUP.
There is no doubt in my mind YouTube will continue to get better...it may take some time :) but as long as I can upload my vids, ppl can watch them and comment, then I can wait ...great work youtube Team
I dont know where to post what i want to say so i'll say it here...when you post a message you can only write 500 characters...well, would be helpful to show how many characters do we have left when we write?? I'm tired of enshorting my messages again and again everytime i want to post something...it's very annoying and i think it would be easy to solve...
Will you also be bringing back the tags in the search results? Also, regarding the proposed changes to the page where a video actually plays, I didn't see the list of playlists of which this video is a part. Either you've decided to remove it, or I just didn't look hard enough. If it's the former, I hope you'll consider putting it back. If it's the latter, I hope you'll consider positioning it so that it can be found more easily. I'm only a viewer, not an uploader.
I've complained twice previously and i'm still waiting for the truth. The overpaid idiot who thought up these changes should be fired and the original (read working) YouTube put back in place, if there is changes to be made then community consultation should take place and i mean with the average user not the corporates that YouTube is trying to tempt to invest.
As for seperating YouTube into different countries is this an attempt at syndication prior to a sell off? Remember you can't sell what you don't own, if the viewers leave who is going to buy?
Youtube is becoming bullshit. Why the hell would they let nogoodtv put their bullshit on their site? Almost everyday their perverted videos are on the most veiwed list. There's porn, adverstising, spammers, chain letters, and other shit on youtube that needs get fixed. What happened to user generated videos? What happened to the "YOU" in Youtube?
I have some questions based on the comments I've read below:
1) Will view statistics be updated retroactively? 24 hours is a long time for a counter to be down. Hopefully someone has created a retroactive job that will update accordingly based on a raw data table somewhere.
2) If I received a "Most Watched" honor this week, will it be reflected when the fix is in production? Again, this probably can be done via script that reads a raw data table.
3) I'm really good at Quality Assurance, especially regression testing. If you're willing to employ onsite or remotely, let's talk. Hopefully these bugs are purely a migration issue, but it doesn't sound like there was enough interface/language testing.
"Videos being watched right now" has to go! It's just the same dumb and useless crap over and over. Sorting by languages is fine, but by countries definitely not... last time I checked the US and the UK both had English as their main language, along with many other countries, so I don't buy that this is supposed to improve things for viewers. And of course, please restore categories ASAP! Thanks.
"Videos being watched right now" has to go! It's just the same dumb and useless crap over and over. Sorting by languages is fine, but by countries definitely not... last time I checked the US and the UK both had English as their main language, along with many other countries, so I don't buy that this is supposed to improve things for viewers. And of course, please restore categories ASAP! Thanks.
I don't believe them. YOUTUBE says, "There were technical reasons this had to happen in the short-term" I wonder if those technical reasons are the upcoming debates involving YOUTUBE? YOUTUBE viewing is going to go way up as we approach these YOUTUBE/CNN debates. I imagine they don't like the easily accesible videos that demonstrate the bias of mainstream media as well as any other unmentionable material for OLD MEDIA (mainstream media). These decisions by YOUTUBE also harm musicians and artists who find it impossible now to rise above all of the cute animals and paris hilton stuff. YOUTUBE claims that they are going to "fix the problem" Let's continue to let them know what we think and make plans for a boycott of YOUTUBE sponsors if they don't return categories JUST AS THEY WERE BEFORE.
K thank you, I guess you guys are forced to stick with the country selection, but if possible is there a way you guys can put all videos from every country together? If this is already the case than my mistake. Again thank you, I almost left.
You know, it was a bad idea to combine and reduce the number of categories in the first place. You should have MORE, not fewer, categories to help people organize and search for videos they want to watch. Now you got rid of categories altogether.
What are the technical reasons why it had to happen? Maybe its not all technical but human error. Come on we need the truth, there is no need to hide from it. I'd like hear the truth to understand why it happened rather than covering the truth and not understand it at all.
What are the technical reasons why it had to happen? Maybe its not all technical but human error. Come on we need the truth, there is no need to hide from it. I'd like hear the truth to understand why it happened rather than covering the truth and not understand it at all.
What are the technical reasons why it had to happen? Maybe its not all technical but human error. Come on we need the truth, there is no need to hide from it. I'd like hear the truth to understand why it happened rather than covering the truth and not understand it at all.
hey Why the hell does my video and channel counter counts me as a viewer? I mean I love watching my video's again and again and again, but hey, I would really prefer to see how many real people (not parts of my split personality) watch the videos. Really, don't you think that it makes no sense that I can't rate my videos but I can still click on them 10000 times, and have 10000 views?
Good Morning YouTube Staff! I hope you all had a restful weekend. Now its time to get to work and get your shit together and figure out if you really want to take you company filled with our content down the TUBE. Your Users/content craters need to hear from you TODAY! You have lit a fire and fanned the flames. Its time to let US know what your thoughts are. We as users and content craters are equal if not larger stakeholders in your company. Its time to open up. Spill the beans. We are not technical idiots and bad excuses dont cut it.
Wow, YouTube caught in a total lie! They say "It was actually not our intention to take this helpful function away from you. There were technical reasons this had to happen in the short-term", yet look at the email they sent to TomGreenFan69 BEFORE this blog entry, "Thanks for your email. We've recently made a few changes to our site. We've added some new features and replaced a few others. The search by category feature is no longer available. This has been replaced by the option to search based on "Relevance", "Date Added", "View Count" and "Rating". Sincerely, Kshema The YouTube Team". Looks like we are being TubeFed lies!!
You may bring the categories back, YOUTUBE TEAM, but the users trust will not return so soon. No matter how you see it, unfortunately, you lose more than just the categories for some days.
I 100% BLAME TO THOSE VIDEO SPAMMERS! GO TO THE TAB "VIDEO" AND SEE WHO'S IN THE FIRST 2 PLACES (A SPAMMER), AND HE WILL STAY THERE UNTIL TOMORROW (OR AT LEAST 20 HOURS), SHOWING VIDEOS THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUTUBE AND/OR WITH THE YOUTUBE COMMUNITY, IT'S PURE SPAM!!! NOW I HAVE 2 QUESTIONS: 1) DO YOUTUBE KNOW ABOUT THIS? (..Yes i know it's a stupid question) AND QUESTION NUMBER 2) ARE THEY GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO REMOVE IT, OR ARE THEY GOING TO LEAVE IT THERE UNTIL TOMORROW? EVERY SINGLE TIME I GO TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO PAGE AND SEE THIS, I JUST GO OTHER PLACES, AND I'M NOT LYING (HONESTLY THAT'S WHAT I DO), I UNDERSTAND THAT YOUTUBE CAN NOT CONTROL OTHER TYPE(S) OF SPAM BECAUSE DEFINITELY IT'S NOT EASY, BUT COME ON HOW CAN YOUTUBE ALLOW THIS SPAM RIGHT IN ITS FACE, YOUTUBE PLEASE HIRE SOME ONE TO DO THIS JOB, IF YOU LIKE I CAN DO IT FOR FREE (NO PROBLEM), BUT PLEASE BRING DOWN THESE TYPE OF VIDEO-SPAMS AS SOON AS THEY SHOW UP, COME ON AT LEAST FROM THE MAIN PAGE(S), HOW CAN YOU ALLOW A VIDEOS WITH OVER 401,000 AND 391,000 VIEWS, VIDEOS WHICH WERE SUBMITTED IN LESS THAN A DAY, AND ALSO WITH ZERO COMMENTS ON THEM, THAT'S AN INSULT TO YOUTUBE, AN INSULT TO THE YOUTUBE COMMUNITY (TO US), YOUTUBE PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, AND INSTRUCT THEM TO CONTACT THE DOMAIN OWNER AND THEN WARNING THEM TO FILE A LAWSUIT FOR FLOODING YOUR SYSTEMS, FOR USING A COMPUTER AGAINST YOUR COMPUTERS (COMPANY), LET YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, PLEASE PUT THEM TO WORK! THANK YOU VERY MUCH YOUTUBE, WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TONS OF SOFTWARE PROBLEMS, BUT PLEASE PASS THIS ISSUE TO YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, I'M SURE THEY WILL KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THIS. THANK YOU IN NAME OF ALL YOUTUBERS!
I 100% BLAME TO THOSE VIDEO SPAMMERS! GO TO THE TAB "VIDEO" AND SEE WHO'S IN THE FIRST 3 PLACES (THE SPAMMERS), AND THEY WILL STAY THERE UNTIL TOMORROW (OR AT LEAST 20 HOURS), SHOWING VIDEOS THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUTUBE AND/OR WITH THE INTEREST OF THE YOUTUBE COMMUNITY, IT'S PURE SPAM!!! NOW I HAVE 2 QUESTIONS: 1) DO YOUTUBE KNOW ABOUT THIS? (..Yes, I know it's a stupid question) AND QUESTION NUMBER 2) ARE THEY GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO REMOVE IT, OR ARE THEY GOING TO LEAVE IT THERE UNTIL TOMORROW? EVERY SINGLE TIME I GO TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO PAGE AND SEE THIS, I JUST PREFER TO GO OTHER WEB SITES, AND I'M NOT LYING (HONESTLY THAT'S WHAT I DO). I UNDERSTAND THAT YOUTUBE CAN NOT CONTROL OTHER TYPE(S) OF SPAM BECAUSE DEFINITELY IT'S NOT AN EASY ISUE, BUT COME ON HOW CAN YOUTUBE ALLOW THIS SPAM RIGHT IN ITS FACE! YOUTUBE PLEASE HIRE SOME ONE TO DO THIS JOB, IF YOU LIKE I CAN DO IT FOR FREE (NO PROBLEM), BUT PLEASE BRING DOWN THESE TYPE OF VIDEO-SPAMS AS SOON AS THEY SHOW UP, COME ON AT LEAST FROM THE MAIN PAGE(S), HOW CAN YOU ALLOW A VIDEOS WITH OVER 401,000 AND 391,000 AND 121,00 VIEWS, VIDEOS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN 1 DAY OLDER, AND ALSO WITH ZERO COMMENTS ON THEM, THAT'S AN INSULT TO YOUTUBE, AN INSULT TO THE YOUTUBE COMMUNITY (TO US), YOUTUBE PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, AND INSTRUCT THEM TO CONTACT THE DOMAIN OWNER(S) AND THEN WARNING THEM TO FILE A LAWSUIT FOR FOR USING A COMPUTER AGAINST YOUR COMPUTERS (COMPANY), THERE ARE DOZENS OF LAWS THAT PROHIBITS THESE TYPES OF ACTIONS, LET YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, PLEASE PUT THEM TO WORK! THANK YOU VERY MUCH YOUTUBE, WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TONS OF PROBLEMS, BUT THIS IS NOT A SOFTWARE PROBLEM, SO PLEASE PASS THIS ISSUE TO YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, I'M SURE THEY WILL KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THIS. THANK YOU IN NAME OF ALL YOUTUBERS!
You see YouTube Team, you removed the categories and thought that the new multi-language would disguise the move, but it's obvious that it did not, you have many people frustrated at you, and this is basically because you did not WARN beforehand your public about the changes.
Now, it's not all that bad that you guys are saying something about this but it's just too little but maybe not too late.
I really hope you get the categories back because it's a democratic way to navigate, that simple ! Whithout it we only have the YouTube editor's choice and seriously, internet is about my own choices, not somebody else's.
I'm glad that you felt the heat and I hope to see categories back because it was my favorite way to randomly navigate on YouTube.
Right... there were technical reasons? But instead of the simple and reasoned idea of saying to the userbase, "Hey our new update is going to require us to turn off categories for a few weeks until we can fix them." You remove the feature and pretend like nothing happened until your userbase revolted? Who do you have running site communications a retarded monkey?
Due to all the site updates there are a great number of security holes at this moment. Our privacy seems to be in danger. Google has been forced to contact the hacker who discoverd them. http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?3,12611
I'm starting to get the feeling that you guys are just stalling and hoping we will run out of steam. What about this email sent to TomGreenFan69, as pointed out by OfficialConspirator, BEFORE this blog entry: "Thanks for your email. We've recently made a few changes to our site. We've added some new features and replaced a few others. The search by category feature is no longer available. This has been replaced by the option to search based on "Relevance", "Date Added", "View Count" and "Rating". Sincerely, Kshema The YouTube Team".
I had recieved an similar e-mail as well in reference to the changes you tube is not telling the truth. The changes happened when the cnn debates were introduced and I will not believe them until they are fixed. The msm is censoring candidates like Ron Paul,Mike Gravel,Dennis Kuncinich. Will it be fixed before the debates I hope so
ALL of it is because of my videos about John McCain and our Corrupt and Evil Government. It all started right after I posted them. No kidding. And, since I posted them, my local Rep., John Doolittle, did the same as McCain and sent GESTAPO GOONS to my home...
I expect it will never be fixed. Our govt doesn't want us to know The Truth. They MURDERED my Mother - and EVERYBODY is covering it up. I'm waiting for another visit from my friendly Gestapo...
"Thanks for your email. We've recently made a few changes to our site. We've added some new features and replaced a few others. The search by category feature is no longer available. This has been replaced by the option to search based on "Relevance", "Date Added", "View Count" and "Rating". Sincerely, Kshema The YouTube Team". THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE "not our intention to take this helpful function away from you".
YOU LIED. If that protest is still going on at YT offices, I'M THERE. Enough of this BS!!!!!
I had recieved an similar e-mail as well in reference to the changes you tube is not telling the truth. The changes happened when the cnn debates were introduced and I will not believe them until they are fixed. The msm is censoring candidates like Ron Paul,Mike Gravel,Dennis Kuncinich. Will it be fixed before the debates I hope so
Hey no problem youtube someone on here gave a re-rout link that we all have been using to get buy. Most don't care what videos the editors like. But thanks for trying to make that choice for us. Hope to see the issue resolved. YouTube is still awesome! From a little guy at the bottom of the lost category lists
YOUTUBE you are silly - this hurts artists and musicians and alternative political thought - probably why you are doing this. It's your right to mess up everything--but we will strike back.
Why do you guys keep messing with the subscription bar?!? you removed it and we all wanted it back. You bring it back and then cut out most of the videos shown there. Just put it back the way it was!
Doyubi, your a genius. Thats for posting your shell. It really works guys. YT is obviously lying and does not have our best interest at heart. But you do. 10 stars to you!
please dont spam this blog it makes it mean a lot less i posted my email and reply from support. that tells it all if this gets spamed to death they will deleat. i have search the web youtube was the only place that let new people get notice though the search by cat. if they bring it back awsome if not another site will see how inportant that is and we will all go there
If this goes on much longer I think Google will have to kiss its billion dollar investment goodbye. Wonder what the shareholders are going to think about that? Whatever corporate agenda you've got going here, your best bet commercially (I'm assuming that an appeal to your sense of community is a waste of time) would be to return to the old system, ASAP. Bring back the categories, ditch the country-affiliation.
your so right thucy2 they was thinking so big we split to countrys sell adds to them steam line dont need all the cat. bull, with selling adds to 10 diff utube spots we make bill. hehe they forget about us that watch this and the sub. and they lost the viewers )
Guys check this out it is a tool written by DOYUBI see posts below. It is a side browser that will sort the vids by categories and relevance for you. What a shame a single user can write the code faster than a billion dollar company. Seems to me they are a vulnerable beast ready to crack at the seams anytime now.
Well here is the link. http://freeshells.ch/~doyubi/StillBornIndex.html
While searching for the best solution you guys may include a background color in the search box... Mi windows background color is black, and your fore color is black... I cant see what I'm typing :) Thx a lot, I love this place
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I don't understand the feeling that you needed to lie to us about this. Those who got a response know that you removed it thinking it would be better to make the changes you did. Just say that. We understand. Or just leave out the first two sentences of the second paragraph.
And why did you remove the link "Got Feedback?" from nearly every page? It makes it seem as though you've desided you don't want to hear from us any more. You say otherwise, so prove me wrong...Now, you've heard us and realize that we would like it back the other way, so just put it back. This isn't difficult.
And when you do, add MORE categories. How about one for "educational" and one for "religious"? Those are two subjects used quite a bit on You Tube that don't fit in any of the available categories.
Today is the 25th, how much longer will this take? Surely one week would be enough to fix a problem that you only intended to be a problem "in the short-term."
All about holding down Ron Paul. Yes, your working hard on a solution to bring it back, and to filter out Ron Paul at the same time. Technical reasons this had to happen in the short-term were you caved in to some "high up" Republican closed door bullchit. A great website has just been corrupted, time to move on all. This is my first & last comment.
I've heard from a credible source that not everyone inside YOUTUBE supports this censorship. If that is you, we need you to break ranks and speak out against this corporate power grab! Of course * what has leaked out from YOUTUBE is that they are trying to control what people see because of the upcoming CNN/YOUTUBE debates. However, as you all know, this hurts musicians and independent artists most of all. STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
I've heard from a credible source that not everyone inside YOUTUBE supports this censorship. If that is you, we need you to break ranks and speak out against this corporate power grab! Of course * what has leaked out from YOUTUBE is that they are trying to control what people see because of the upcoming CNN/YOUTUBE debates. However, as you all know, this hurts musicians and independent artists most of all. STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
I'm glad to hear you're bringing the Categories back. It was a bummer when they disappeared! Some of us prefer to find our own viewing material and we get to pick in the way we see fit with the Categories there to help. Thanks, in advance, for bringing them back!
It's Monday night and still no categories. Since I don't feel like watching Japanese clips, soccer or boxing clips, or another drama prairie dog clip I guess I'll have to go elsewhere on the internets.
How about you guys bring back the application for the DIRECTOR ACCOUNTS that you are no longer offering? Everyone who got a director account when it was available can still post 10+ MINUTE videos but why this limit applies only on the new users? You guys didn't even give the new users a chance to experience the director accounts? You guys need to bring back that feature more than anything else.
How about you guys bring back the application for the DIRECTOR ACCOUNTS that you are no longer offering? Everyone who got a director account when it was available can still post 10+ MINUTE videos but why this limit applies only on the new users? You guys didn't even give the new users a chance to experience the director accounts? You guys need to bring back that feature more than anything else.
A lot of people are now starting accounts on liveleak because they don't think the categories are coming back, and that youtube/google has gotten too mainstream for it's own good. Many of them speculate this category thing is a paid effort to surpress certain political candidates during the CNN feature. I hope they're wrong, it would be sad to see this community leave for less commercial pastures.
The REAL REASON for this is the govt doesn't want us to know THE TRUTH. I do not believe it was a cooincidene that all of this began right after I posted my videos about John McCain, and many others, committing PERJURY, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, ABUSE OF POWER, and more.
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Well, here's hoping... thanks for finally addressing this.
ReplyDeleteThank Ted.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for addressing this!
ReplyDeletethank you for notifying users of the problems. greatly appreciated.
ReplyDeleteThank you for listening to the community.
ReplyDeleteUhmmm thank you?
ReplyDeleteI think you folks are finally coming around to fact that communicating with users is in your best interest. This is welcome and positive step. Now if you could just convince the engineers to test their changes on a limited scope before releasing changes on the entire network I think everyone would benefit. I not prepared to thank you for giving back something you obviously took away. The excuse that "technical reasons" resulted in these problems is your typical response. Test PRIOR to making changes, then true technical issues can be resolved beforehand. Communication before changes are implemented would also be a welcome change.
ReplyDeleteEXCELLENT news!
ReplyDeleteGreat. Now bring back ALL of the categories. You only have the "featured" videos, which most people have no interest in watching. We want to be able to find the "little guy"
ReplyDeleteBut, seriously, thank you for responding to our feedback and working on a solution to bring the categories back.
ReplyDeleteBullshit, Google/YouTube - you dropped the ball this time.
ReplyDeleteThank you for listening to us, and sorry for some of the snide remarks. Not ;-)
ReplyDeleteBring back the categories as soon as possible:>)
ReplyDeleteIt's good that you're (finally) responding on this issue, but I'll hold my thanks until the functionality is actually restored. Also, you could have posted this 5 minutes after you updated the site instead 5 days or whatever it is now...
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh,someone sent me a message saying this, and I thought she was just teasing me.Thank you so much youtube for trying to get them back. The intent means a lot!!!!Hope it is a success!! sonya :)
ReplyDeleteThank YOU tube.
ReplyDeleteA bit late.
ReplyDeleteI'll believe it when I see it.
ReplyDeletealas...thank you.
ReplyDeleteYour apology will be accepted when you show us the Cat returns.
ReplyDeleteWell maybe someone is listening. But this was no accident. I don't think things will ever be the same. Maybe we will even like some of the changes. But the damage was done and now we know they can never be trusted. They have their own agenda and we may never know the "rest of the story"
ReplyDeletei refuse to say thanks until they are back AND running. no trying to trick us into thinking they are back.
ReplyDeleteand so again in another "blog entry": BRING BACK CATEGORIES!!!
Quote(Response): It was actually not our intention to take this helpful function away from you. (But you obviously KNEW or you would not have Ok'ed it, yet no one says anything for 5 days) There were technical reasons this had to happen in the short-term ("TECHNICAL RESAONS"?!? I can imagine going to my boss and saying "We're ready for that upgrade, but it's going to criple the system and piss off most of our users." I guess if I worked at YouTube he'd just say, "That's OK, we just wont say anything about it and come up with somthing later."), but the good news is that we're working hard on a solution to bring it back (It's called a BACK-UP. Restore the previous system and quit trying to split up the world community. This isn't a search engine!). More news when we have it(took 5 days to come up with this lame excuse), and thanks so much for your patience in the meantime (uh, your welcome?).
ReplyDeleteIll be glad to see them return, but I think the reason behind their initial disappearance where obvious, and they miscalcutated the ammount of disent the decession would cause. Boycott stands until they are back...whilst Im pleased that apparently the power of YOUtube still resides in with the voice of the people, this was a strike against us that we shall not forget...you've been tainted and we'll have to deal with it.
ReplyDeletei forgive you... ;)
ReplyDeleteAmazing... nobody commenting here has a clue. Sometimes you HAVE to change portions of the architecture to effect other changes in the database and supporting code. Over react much?
ReplyDeleteI think your just buying time till you go full corprate for the Cnn debates. BRING BACK THE CATEGORY.
ReplyDeleteyeaaaaaaa
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU!! We forgive ya :) ;)
ReplyDeleteok, so they had to "change portions of the architecture to effect other changes in the database and supporting code" couldn't this have been tested and debuged offline?
ReplyDeleteOh, and BRING BACK CATEGORIE BROWSING. Whats the hold up? Like OfficalConspirator said; "Its called a BACKUP"
ReplyDeletei wont be forgiving nobody til they are back AND running
ReplyDeleteONLY SPAMMERS NEED THIS FEATURE, DON'T FIX ANYTHING!
ReplyDeletei think a large segment of the audience can fully understand the technicality, perhaps you could explain it in more detail and gain more trust.
ReplyDeleteONLY SPAMMERS NEED THIS FEATURE, DON'T FIX ANYTHING!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Thank you! Thank You! I can love youtube again! I'm eagerly awaiting the return of the category browse :)
ReplyDeletethank you i hope they'll be back soon
ReplyDeleteYea! The lax servers are loading again! Finally we're back to 100% You Tube!
ReplyDeleteBring back motherfucking catergories motherfuckers!
ReplyDeleteThank you for finally addressing the issue in the blog. Hopefully it will not take five days the next time something like this comes up.
ReplyDeleteThank you for addressing the issue in the blog. :-)
ReplyDeleteONLY SPAMMERS WANT THIS FEATURE, DO NOT BRING IT BACK, PLEASE DON'T DO THAT, SPAMMERS LOVE THIS FEATURE
ReplyDeletebring it back!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete"It was actually not our intention to take this helpful function away from you."
ReplyDeleteYes and pigs are flying past my window. Score 0/10 for honesty.
Google with their billion dollar brains could'nt find a solution to this, interesting.
On the bright side, I've been forced to discover a couple of very good alternatives to "you" tube, so I thank you for that.
If spamming is the problem, address spamming - don't eliminate a helpful and useful feature. Thanks for addressing this problem, but I agree it looks a little fishy that it took so long to respond to such an enormous outcry - couldn't you have forseen?
ReplyDeleteWow. You are really listening. :D
ReplyDeleteI can wait.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Thank you! Thank you! I eagerly await the return of the categories :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for answering our question. I'm glad to hear that the categories will be back as they give a voice to the YouTube community and make YouTube unique.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to hear you are bringing categories back. I doubt very much that this was just a temporary thing, but at least you were listening to those of us who cared about them.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens when companies converge? There's always some young buck who wants to make a mark and make things "better". Don't fix what ain't broke.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this is the truth and not just PR damage control, but please don't wait so long before responding to such an issue next time. And if you knew that this was going to happen, at least put out a warning prior to it. Thanks.
ReplyDeletePlans were already underway to hold live demos & protests at your YouTube offices in San Bruno. Please don't jerk your viewers around like this in future. Arrive at a solution soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks for finally responding.
ReplyDeletePlease eliminate featured videos from receiving honors, it gives far too much an added advantage over other people's videos who are popular without the "boost".
Also, please create more categories. One specifically for religion would be awesome! Another would be a science channel.
Hello, I just wanted you to have a look at this video. It's about Global Help against poverty, warfare and so...
ReplyDeleteI think it would be a great idea to feature it in the homepage for a while and contribute to the very good idea of it's author:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imkm0x5dCrk&v3
Thanks
This has been a big disappointment
ReplyDeleteIf it was me, I'd go back to having a working site and then try to add your new features. I like browsing through the "most recent" videos but enough is enough.
ReplyDeleteI find myself spending a lot more time at liveleak now.
Thank you for responding! Now at least I know that I can eventually browse by category again. Please bring them back quickly!
ReplyDeleteThe remixer doesn't work! Upgrade it...make it better...!
ReplyDeleteThe remixer doesn't work! Upgrade it...make it better...!
ReplyDeleteYouTube Team,
ReplyDeleteYou are on notice. Pretty much we (your users and money makers(without us you get no adverstising dollars))need category listings back this week or YouTube will be embarrassed, belittled and will become irrelevent in a few short weeks. You have put yourself in the spotlight, with the CNN debates. Seems like if the spotlight were to move left a little we could easily see every other network covering how dedicated YouTube and Google are about free speech. Especially in China. This is Googles second cover up this week. The first being Google fussing about the restrictions some are trying to put on the net. Oh so sorry google not he restrictions you wanted. Those restrictions dont give you the leverage you need to manipulate the free creative content given to you for free to profit off of. This was nothing but a failed attempt to control freely created info. You all need to do a better job of fixing it than that poor explanation. You have lost credibility with a large portion of your users. This has pushed a large #of your users to explore alternative options and they are finding they offer better services without all this corp political BS. You need to realize that most people can see through the BS now and we will not sit and watch. We will just leave and you will be no more. This is not intended as a threat just a commentary on how MOST users feel. We are not sheep nor blind.
Thank you for owning up to the problem. I'm not the only one who like browsing the categories. (Only because what is on the most viewed list is usually crap.)
ReplyDeleteI will patiently wait for a solution.
I will believe it when I see it.
ReplyDeleteThe YouTube "team" took far too long to even address the issue and post a reply. And how embarassing that one of the so-called biggest tech companies in the world can't beta test and THEN role out changes/updates. It's rather pathetic that it took so long to post this information.
I'm not sure I'll stay here even if you do "fix" the so-called "glitch". Funny...renatto knew about the "glitch" a couple of days ago. I guess some members have more clout than others. You did a poor job of communicating with the YouTube community. Not that you care what I think. Why bother with a "feedback" option if no one reads it and responds?
If you are sincere, then you'll have this problem corrected within one or two days from today, Sat June 23, 2007. If it takes any longer, I'll just search elsewhere.
I agree with spazznout and others. YouTube as a company "manipulates the free creative content given to you... to profit from." That part was understood; you were stepping on the little guy, you were using him to get a leg-up, you reaped all kinds of benefits, and now to thank the little guy, you attempt to grind him into the dirt. Let's make it very clear: we will not tolerate this kind of treatment. Fix the problem soon or we will organize! BOYCOTTS, EDITORIALS, LIVE DEMO/PROTESTS.
ReplyDeletejust get it fixed.
ReplyDeleteI never thought the lack of categories was deliberate. Stuff happens when you update a site and sometimes it takes time to fix. Give them a break!
ReplyDeleteI'd still like to see an 'international' front page with secondary 'national' ones though. As an Australian, if I were to get a featured video (not likely but just hypothetically) on which page would it be posted? Does this mean that featured videos are only for the Irish/American/UK videos now (and the other, non-English pages?) If you could get back to us on this point it would make a lot of things much clearer to me.
Thanks,
Fillet
This is not a mistake. It's yet another attempt to mould the community for marketing purposes.
ReplyDelete>SIGH<
Those that defend the "mistake" set a precedent and sends a message to Youtube that it doesn't matter if they phuk us.
I have been a software designer/Tech for more years that I care to mention. When I read "technical reasons this HAD to happen in the short-term", my fellow Tech geeks here at ".....Soft" and I cried B.S.! A Sort Link program is basic programing 101, but does have a cost (computing space and run time) to maintain and operate properly. Sounds like you dumped it on the roll out to save a few $$$ and then sat back to see if anyone would notice (sad to say a little trick done here). Guess what...WE noticed. This should be FIXED in days or something is fishy in TUBE town.
ReplyDeletenot only bring it back but expand it to 250 videos instead of 100 for each catagory. This give new people more of chance to be discovered and will help viewers find the things they are interested in.
ReplyDeleteThere you go YouTube that would be a great way to let us users know you are not all about corporate CENSORSHIP for profit. Expand the top vids in each category to 250 vids. This will defiantly give the impression at least that you care about the content we all provide. Show your users you have heard us and do care about your content creators. You are in a catch 22 here. You depend on the same people to generate as well as consume the product you are selling, a venue for advertising. With this business model you could collaps in weeks if you screw the balance up. It almost happened a few months back. To fix that you put a number of content creators on your payroll. That worked once but I have to tell you those few paid people provide less than 1% of the viewed content here.
ReplyDeletei think there's a problem with the updating the views as well? its been over 24 hours and video views haven't updated.
ReplyDeleteJamie
P.S. i know i should post this under the feedback button that's usually in the bottom right corner of the screen but it was replaced with a "presidential debate" button
So what is the projected date for restoring all the features? I worked in software for 22 years. You have one. What is it?
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to the honors system returning to News and Politics. I got my first honors only the week before the disaster, and I was elated. Uncertainty causes anxiety. What is the estimated date of release?
hmm this dam page should be on the front of the Youtube site, I didnt even know it was here untill I came across it on accident.
ReplyDeleteSo what is the projected date for restoring all the features? I worked in software for 22 years. You have one. What is it?
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to the honors system returning to News and Politics. I got my first honors only the week before the disaster, and I was elated. Uncertainty causes anxiety. What is the estimated date of release?
Thanks. Hope you are also still "working on a solution" to the problem with videos not loading ever since you put the new player into effect... it's been WEEKS now, people.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Hope you are also still "working on a solution" to the problem with videos not loading ever since you put the new player into effect... it's been WEEKS now, people.
ReplyDeleteWell. That's a great news.
ReplyDeleteBut I hate the "Videos being watched now" and WATCH 3.0.
WATCH 3.0 is messy and ugly, the images beside the links don't match YouTube's color scheme. The caption is hid under the video. Related videos is too simple. "USERNAME"'s channel is useless. We all can click USERNAME's username and see his/her channel.
I am a bit disappointed with the "new YouTube".
Well. That's a great news.
ReplyDeleteBut I hate the "Videos being watched now" and WATCH 3.0.
WATCH 3.0 is messy and ugly, the images beside the links don't match YouTube's color scheme. The caption is hid under the video. Related videos is too simple. "USERNAME"'s channel is useless. We all can click USERNAME's username and see his/her channel.
I am a bit disappointed with the "new YouTube".
I hope that you are being truthful about it being a "mistake." I am however very happy that you cats are listening to the people that made you f*ckers rich. We are your bread and butter, we provide free content and you reap the rewards, we ALL know this. It is Youtube that had better recognize.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, did the guys at Liveleak send over a thank you card?
I hope that you are being truthful about it being a "mistake." I am however very happy that you cats are listening to the people that made you f*ckers rich. We are your bread and butter, we provide free content and you reap the rewards, we ALL know this. It is Youtube that had better recognize.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, did the guys at Liveleak send over a thank you card?
Whoa! Hold your red pants there Flash! It took only over 4 days to address the issue on your blog? Response time like that means you must have broken some psychical laws.
ReplyDeleteRooOOock! Oh, wait...
Please bring it back ASAP! And it should had a better categories too.
ReplyDeleteAnd increase the pages of video browse.
Thanks for the update. It means a lot to your "customers" out here to know that you a) listen, b) tell us what's up and, c) give us a chance to tell you what we think about what you've said.
ReplyDeletegreat!!
ReplyDeleteThis is relief to read your statement on the Matter! I am glad that they are coming back! This feature alone makes youtube so very unique to all other video sharing sites!
ReplyDeletewell its good to hear
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteExcellent! Great to hear it!
ReplyDeletei was here
ReplyDeleteHey, while your engineers are working feverishly to resurrect the categories, could you please also remove the "Videos being watched right now"? Like, kill this stupid and worthless feature right now! PLEASE!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThere are kids coming to Youtube and they don't need to have porn forcefed to them. Lesbian sex, upskirts, buttocks and boobs are not what they need to see.
Really disappointed in you this time, Youtube.
GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!! GET RID OF PORN ON THE FRONT PAGE!!
Thanks for the response, i gathered from the silence that this was a difficult problem that you intended to address. However, i would ask that next time there is a significant problem like this you officially address it proptly, rather than carrying on posting with the elephant in the room...i`m sure everyone just wanted this post a few days ago, that could have been done couldnt it?
ReplyDeleteThank you for this statement. I'm very glad to hear it and I hope you will be able to fix the problem soon.
ReplyDeleteOnce again I thank you for listening to us and responding to us. You are getting much better at this. It is a good thing for the whole YouTube community.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy that you plan on fixing the category browsing issue, but I think I'm happier that you actually responded to the community with an update! Please keep us informed.
ReplyDeletethanks for addressing the issue, i hope to see it fixed soon. I agree with what someone else said increasing the number of videos would be awesome.
ReplyDeletehow do you do that unintentionaly?
ReplyDeleteYes, Stellastewart, I was thinking the same thing. The whole categories list disappears. All website updates are tested before being uploaded.
ReplyDeleteAll the videos are tagged for categories already, it really would be quite simple to code.
While you are fixing the Categories stuff that could you also fix the NO incrementing of the counters! The counters have stopped as of 23/06/2007 again!
ReplyDeleteI don't believe this wasn't a deliberate action. but hopefully you have understood how everyone on here feels. Stop disrespecting everyone that makes money for you guys! this used to be an awesome site, but honestly every week it becomes more and more ridiculous.. and corporate..
ReplyDeletebring the fucking categories back and stop fucking everybody around!
Thank you. I'm glad im not the only one who emailed in about it.
ReplyDeletecool
ReplyDeleteWe will see...
ReplyDeleteThank goodness you finally said something about us. We were starting to think you were ignoring us. I don't believe for one secodn that this was a "technical problem". Lets just hope that you do bring back everything the way it used to be.
ReplyDeleteHave a pleasant day.
Bring back the languages!
ReplyDeleteSame shit different day. There explanation is total BS meant to pacify the masses. I don't believe a billion dollar company dosen't have the resources to fix what ever they want asap. I do want to thank YT though for making me go find some other cool vid sites. The hayday of YT is over. RIP
ReplyDeletein addition to bringing back the categories... i suggest adding a new feature called something like ROUNDROBIN... where 100 videos from each category are randomly selected for a day. You could add it to the Time filter as a fifth choice.
ReplyDelete***technical reasons my ass>>>
ReplyDeleteThanks for your email. We've recently made a few changes to our site.
We've added some new features and replaced a few others. The search by
category feature is no longer available. This has been replaced by the
option to search based on "Relevance", "Date Added", "View Count" and
"Rating".
Sincerely, Kshema
The YouTube Team
Ditto the comment below from firangi4u - view counters seem frozen. - Plus -
ReplyDeletea) what happened to total views for all my videos?
b) the "beta" view page lacks a "playlist" column with the "related" amd "more from this user." It needs to come back.
Apparently YT thinks it can throw any old stuff at the millions of users and that we'll accept it; their ridiculous changes to the site are designed to attract favorable response from the corporate media to whom YT is whoring itself. These are mostly "suits" - old media types who in the grand tradition of networks and record companies think that they can make the public eat whatever garbage they serve up. A little more of this and they'll learn a major lesson in new media, as users/uploaders vote with their feet (fingers, in this case) and head for LiveVideo, DailyMotion, Veoh, and any other site that is more consumer-friendly.
Ditto the comment below from firangi4u - view counters seem frozen. - Plus -
ReplyDeletea) what happened to total views for all my videos?
b) the "beta" view page lacks a "playlist" column with the "related" amd "more from this user." It needs to come back.
Apparently YT thinks it can throw any old stuff at the millions of users and that we'll accept it; their ridiculous changes to the site are designed to attract favorable response from the corporate media to whom YT is whoring itself. These are mostly "suits" - old media types who in the grand tradition of networks and record companies think that they can make the public eat whatever garbage they serve up. A little more of this and they'll learn a major lesson in new media, as users/uploaders vote with their feet (fingers, in this case) and head for LiveVideo, DailyMotion, Veoh, and any other site that is more consumer-friendly.
This is bullshit...there should be a back up. This is why media should not be for profit...corp media gives rise to a fascist state.
ReplyDeleteYoutube is now just another internet porn peddler. Why the explosion of porn all over Youtube, no matter what category is searched?
ReplyDeletedear youtube,
ReplyDeletewhy come my video does not work i tried and tried but nothing can you help?
View counters have been frozen for days now, when will this be fixed?!?
ReplyDeleteThe American version of the site is the only one working. The UK one's recent subscription videos don't work, the updates havn't been implemented, I can no longer watch the american featured videos (Which seem to be far better than the english ones)....
ReplyDeleteSeparate youtube into languages NOT country's... this is pathetic.
Watusaid Tripplehelix
ReplyDeleteHow was it a mistake to take away the categories? BS! The old Youtube was perfect. No problems, etc. The new one is CRAP!
ReplyDeleteAre You Listening YouTube this latest f-up is pushing you into the abyss. You would be best leaving he old media out of this arena of new media. Here we have the control not you. Users create the majority of viewed content. If folks want to see cable TV they will watch their TV. Wonder when the media is gonna pick up this story? wont you be in trouble then. Ill answer that....... YUP.
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt in my mind YouTube will continue to get better...it may take some time :) but as long as I can upload my vids, ppl can watch them and comment, then I can wait ...great work youtube Team
ReplyDeleteTaking away the category browsing is almost censoring!
ReplyDeleteI dont know where to post what i want to say so i'll say it here...when you post a message you can only write 500 characters...well, would be helpful to show how many characters do we have left when we write?? I'm tired of enshorting my messages again and again everytime i want to post something...it's very annoying and i think it would be easy to solve...
ReplyDeleteWill you also be bringing back the tags in the search results? Also, regarding the proposed changes to the page where a video actually plays, I didn't see the list of playlists of which this video is a part. Either you've decided to remove it, or I just didn't look hard enough. If it's the former, I hope you'll consider putting it back. If it's the latter, I hope you'll consider positioning it so that it can be found more easily. I'm only a viewer, not an uploader.
ReplyDeleteI've complained twice previously and i'm still waiting for the truth.
ReplyDeleteThe overpaid idiot who thought up these changes should be fired and the original (read working) YouTube put back in place, if there is changes to be made then community consultation should take place and i mean with the average user not the corporates that YouTube is trying to tempt to invest.
As for seperating YouTube into different countries is this an attempt at syndication prior to a sell off? Remember you can't sell what you don't own, if the viewers leave who is going to buy?
ReplyDeleteBRING IT BACK NOW
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with view stats?
ReplyDeleteLooks like they haven't been updated for 24 hours!
Youtube is becoming bullshit. Why the hell would they let nogoodtv put their bullshit on their site? Almost everyday their perverted videos are on the most veiwed list. There's porn, adverstising, spammers, chain letters, and other shit on youtube that needs get fixed. What happened to user generated videos? What happened to the "YOU" in Youtube?
ReplyDeleteHello YouTube,
ReplyDeleteI have some questions based on the comments I've read below:
1) Will view statistics be updated retroactively? 24 hours is a long time for a counter to be down. Hopefully someone has created a retroactive job that will update accordingly based on a raw data table somewhere.
2) If I received a "Most Watched" honor this week, will it be reflected when the fix is in production? Again, this probably can be done via script that reads a raw data table.
3) I'm really good at Quality Assurance, especially regression testing. If you're willing to employ onsite or remotely, let's talk. Hopefully these bugs are purely a migration issue, but it doesn't sound like there was enough interface/language testing.
Send me an e-mail.
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ReplyDelete"Videos being watched right now" has to go! It's just the same dumb and useless crap over and over. Sorting by languages is fine, but by countries definitely not... last time I checked the US and the UK both had English as their main language, along with many other countries, so I don't buy that this is supposed to improve things for viewers. And of course, please restore categories ASAP! Thanks.
ReplyDelete"Videos being watched right now" has to go! It's just the same dumb and useless crap over and over. Sorting by languages is fine, but by countries definitely not... last time I checked the US and the UK both had English as their main language, along with many other countries, so I don't buy that this is supposed to improve things for viewers. And of course, please restore categories ASAP! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe them. YOUTUBE says, "There were technical reasons this had to happen in the short-term" I wonder if those technical reasons are the upcoming debates involving YOUTUBE? YOUTUBE viewing is going to go way up as we approach these YOUTUBE/CNN debates. I imagine they don't like the easily accesible videos that
ReplyDeletedemonstrate the bias of mainstream media as well as any other unmentionable material for OLD MEDIA (mainstream media). These decisions by YOUTUBE also harm musicians and artists who find it impossible now to rise above all of the cute animals and paris hilton stuff. YOUTUBE claims that they are going to "fix the problem" Let's continue to let them know what we think and make plans for a boycott of YOUTUBE sponsors if they don't return categories JUST AS THEY WERE BEFORE.
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ReplyDeleteBRING THEM BACK UP!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI was ready to boycott.
ReplyDeleteThis new system is rather Orwellian and I am surprised that Youtube did not forecast there would be a backlash.
K thank you, I guess you guys are forced to stick with the country selection, but if possible is there a way you guys can put all videos from every country together? If this is already the case than my mistake. Again thank you, I almost left.
ReplyDeleteOk, FUCK YOU YOUTUBE.
ReplyDeleteYOU'VE HAD TIME TO FIX THIS ISSUE. YOU'RE A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION, DO YOU NOT KNOW BASIC HTML???
GO FUCK YOURSELVES GOOGLE AND YOUTUBE TEAMS. GARBAGE CORPORATE SCUM!!!!!!
I can't even narrow down my search results by categories! Urgh! It's really irritating. You guys are making YouTube more and more user unfriendly!
ReplyDeleteYou know, it was a bad idea to combine and reduce the number of categories in the first place. You should have MORE, not fewer, categories to help people organize and search for videos they want to watch. Now you got rid of categories altogether.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the technical reasons why it had to happen? Maybe its not all technical but human error. Come on we need the truth, there is no need to hide from it. I'd like hear the truth to understand why it happened rather than covering the truth and not understand it at all.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the technical reasons why it had to happen? Maybe its not all technical but human error. Come on we need the truth, there is no need to hide from it. I'd like hear the truth to understand why it happened rather than covering the truth and not understand it at all.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the technical reasons why it had to happen? Maybe its not all technical but human error. Come on we need the truth, there is no need to hide from it. I'd like hear the truth to understand why it happened rather than covering the truth and not understand it at all.
ReplyDeletehey
ReplyDeleteWhy the hell does my video and channel counter counts me as a viewer? I mean I love watching my video's again and again and again, but hey, I would really prefer to see how many real people (not parts of my split personality) watch the videos. Really, don't you think that it makes no sense that I can't rate my videos but I can still click on them 10000 times, and have 10000 views?
Was the suspension of Jesari a technical reason? or was that just a staff error? Either way that needs fixed as a top priority. Bring back Jesari.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning YouTube Staff! I hope you all had a restful weekend. Now its time to get to work and get your shit together and figure out if you really want to take you company filled with our content down the TUBE. Your Users/content craters need to hear from you TODAY! You have lit a fire and fanned the flames. Its time to let US know what your thoughts are. We as users and content craters are equal if not larger stakeholders in your company. Its time to open up. Spill the beans. We are not technical idiots and bad excuses dont cut it.
ReplyDeleteWow, YouTube caught in a total lie! They say "It was actually not our intention to take this helpful function away from you. There were technical reasons this had to happen in the short-term", yet look at the email they sent to TomGreenFan69 BEFORE this blog entry, "Thanks for your email. We've recently made a few changes to our site. We've added some new features and replaced a few others. The search by category feature is no longer available. This has been replaced by the option to search based on "Relevance", "Date Added", "View Count" and "Rating". Sincerely, Kshema The YouTube Team". Looks like we are being TubeFed lies!!
ReplyDeleteYou may bring the categories back, YOUTUBE TEAM, but the users trust will not return so soon. No matter how you see it, unfortunately, you lose more than just the categories for some days.
ReplyDeleteI 100% BLAME TO THOSE VIDEO SPAMMERS! GO TO THE TAB "VIDEO" AND SEE WHO'S IN THE FIRST 2 PLACES (A SPAMMER), AND HE WILL STAY THERE UNTIL TOMORROW (OR AT LEAST 20 HOURS), SHOWING VIDEOS THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUTUBE AND/OR WITH THE YOUTUBE COMMUNITY, IT'S PURE SPAM!!! NOW I HAVE 2 QUESTIONS: 1) DO YOUTUBE KNOW ABOUT THIS? (..Yes i know it's a stupid question) AND QUESTION NUMBER 2) ARE THEY GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO REMOVE IT, OR ARE THEY GOING TO LEAVE IT THERE UNTIL TOMORROW? EVERY SINGLE TIME I GO TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO PAGE AND SEE THIS, I JUST GO OTHER PLACES, AND I'M NOT LYING (HONESTLY THAT'S WHAT I DO), I UNDERSTAND THAT YOUTUBE CAN NOT CONTROL OTHER TYPE(S) OF SPAM BECAUSE DEFINITELY IT'S NOT EASY, BUT COME ON HOW CAN YOUTUBE ALLOW THIS SPAM RIGHT IN ITS FACE, YOUTUBE PLEASE HIRE SOME ONE TO DO THIS JOB, IF YOU LIKE I CAN DO IT FOR FREE (NO PROBLEM), BUT PLEASE BRING DOWN THESE TYPE OF VIDEO-SPAMS AS SOON AS THEY SHOW UP, COME ON AT LEAST FROM THE MAIN PAGE(S), HOW CAN YOU ALLOW A VIDEOS WITH OVER 401,000 AND 391,000 VIEWS, VIDEOS WHICH WERE SUBMITTED IN LESS THAN A DAY, AND ALSO WITH ZERO COMMENTS ON THEM, THAT'S AN INSULT TO YOUTUBE, AN INSULT TO THE YOUTUBE COMMUNITY (TO US), YOUTUBE PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, AND INSTRUCT THEM TO CONTACT THE DOMAIN OWNER AND THEN WARNING THEM TO FILE A LAWSUIT FOR FLOODING YOUR SYSTEMS, FOR USING A COMPUTER AGAINST YOUR COMPUTERS (COMPANY), LET YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, PLEASE PUT THEM TO WORK! THANK YOU VERY MUCH YOUTUBE, WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TONS OF SOFTWARE PROBLEMS, BUT PLEASE PASS THIS ISSUE TO YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, I'M SURE THEY WILL KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THIS. THANK YOU IN NAME OF ALL YOUTUBERS!
ReplyDeleteI 100% BLAME TO THOSE VIDEO SPAMMERS! GO TO THE TAB "VIDEO" AND SEE WHO'S IN THE FIRST 3 PLACES (THE SPAMMERS), AND THEY WILL STAY THERE UNTIL TOMORROW (OR AT LEAST 20 HOURS), SHOWING VIDEOS THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUTUBE AND/OR WITH THE INTEREST OF THE YOUTUBE COMMUNITY, IT'S PURE SPAM!!! NOW I HAVE 2 QUESTIONS: 1) DO YOUTUBE KNOW ABOUT THIS? (..Yes, I know it's a stupid question) AND QUESTION NUMBER 2) ARE THEY GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO REMOVE IT, OR ARE THEY GOING TO LEAVE IT THERE UNTIL TOMORROW? EVERY SINGLE TIME I GO TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO PAGE AND SEE THIS, I JUST PREFER TO GO OTHER WEB SITES, AND I'M NOT LYING (HONESTLY THAT'S WHAT I DO). I UNDERSTAND THAT YOUTUBE CAN NOT CONTROL OTHER TYPE(S) OF SPAM BECAUSE DEFINITELY IT'S NOT AN EASY ISUE, BUT COME ON HOW CAN YOUTUBE ALLOW THIS SPAM RIGHT IN ITS FACE! YOUTUBE PLEASE HIRE SOME ONE TO DO THIS JOB, IF YOU LIKE I CAN DO IT FOR FREE (NO PROBLEM), BUT PLEASE BRING DOWN THESE TYPE OF VIDEO-SPAMS AS SOON AS THEY SHOW UP, COME ON AT LEAST FROM THE MAIN PAGE(S), HOW CAN YOU ALLOW A VIDEOS WITH OVER 401,000 AND 391,000 AND 121,00 VIEWS, VIDEOS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN 1 DAY OLDER, AND ALSO WITH ZERO COMMENTS ON THEM, THAT'S AN INSULT TO YOUTUBE, AN INSULT TO THE YOUTUBE COMMUNITY (TO US), YOUTUBE PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, AND INSTRUCT THEM TO CONTACT THE DOMAIN OWNER(S) AND THEN WARNING THEM TO FILE A LAWSUIT FOR FOR USING A COMPUTER AGAINST YOUR COMPUTERS (COMPANY), THERE ARE DOZENS OF LAWS THAT PROHIBITS THESE TYPES OF ACTIONS, LET YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, PLEASE PUT THEM TO WORK! THANK YOU VERY MUCH YOUTUBE, WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TONS OF PROBLEMS, BUT THIS IS NOT A SOFTWARE PROBLEM, SO PLEASE PASS THIS ISSUE TO YOUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, I'M SURE THEY WILL KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THIS. THANK YOU IN NAME OF ALL YOUTUBERS!
ReplyDeleteKeep posting videos demanding they bring back categories!
ReplyDeleteYou see YouTube Team, you removed the categories and thought that the new multi-language would disguise the move, but it's obvious that it did not, you have many people frustrated at you, and this is basically because you did not WARN beforehand your public about the changes.
ReplyDeleteNow, it's not all that bad that you guys are saying something about this but it's just too little but maybe not too late.
I really hope you get the categories back because it's a democratic way to navigate, that simple ! Whithout it we only have the YouTube editor's choice and seriously, internet is about my own choices, not somebody else's.
I'm glad that you felt the heat and I hope to see categories back because it was my favorite way to randomly navigate on YouTube.
Not randomly but not linearly.
ReplyDeleteThere is no technical reason that this "had to happen".
ReplyDeleteRight... there were technical reasons? But instead of the simple and reasoned idea of saying to the userbase, "Hey our new update is going to require us to turn off categories for a few weeks until we can fix them." You remove the feature and pretend like nothing happened until your userbase revolted? Who do you have running site communications a retarded monkey?
ReplyDeleteThanks :)
ReplyDeleteDue to all the site updates there are a great number of
ReplyDeletesecurity holes at this moment. Our privacy seems to be in danger. Google has been forced to contact the
hacker who discoverd them.
http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?3,12611
I'm starting to get the feeling that you guys are just stalling and hoping we will run out of steam. What about this email sent to TomGreenFan69, as pointed out by OfficialConspirator, BEFORE this blog entry: "Thanks for your email. We've recently made a few changes to our site. We've added some new features and replaced a few others. The search by category feature is no longer available. This has been replaced by the option to search based on "Relevance", "Date Added", "View Count" and "Rating". Sincerely, Kshema The YouTube Team".
ReplyDeleteI had recieved an similar e-mail as well
ReplyDeletein reference to the changes you tube is not telling the truth. The changes happened when the cnn debates were introduced and I will not believe them until they are fixed. The msm is censoring candidates like Ron Paul,Mike Gravel,Dennis Kuncinich. Will it be fixed before the debates I hope so
ALL of it is because of my videos about John McCain and our Corrupt and Evil Government. It all started right after I posted them. No kidding. And, since I posted them, my local Rep., John Doolittle, did the same as McCain and sent GESTAPO GOONS to my home...
ReplyDeleteAnd now it won't stop posting my comments...?
ReplyDeleteAny idea when the problem is going to be fixed? I mean, how complex can this be? Just reverse what you did!
ReplyDeleteOh, btw, I'm still being listed as an American. I'm not.
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ReplyDelete____When, YouTube, When__???_____???
I expect it will never be fixed. Our govt doesn't want us to know The Truth. They MURDERED my Mother - and EVERYBODY is covering it up. I'm waiting for another visit from my friendly Gestapo...
ReplyDelete"Thanks for your email. We've recently made a few changes to our site. We've added some new features and replaced a few others. The search by category feature is no longer available. This has been replaced by the option to search based on "Relevance", "Date Added", "View Count" and "Rating". Sincerely, Kshema The YouTube Team". THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE "not our intention to take this helpful function away from you".
ReplyDeleteYOU LIED. If that protest is still going on at YT offices, I'M THERE. Enough of this BS!!!!!
I had recieved an similar e-mail as well
ReplyDeletein reference to the changes you tube is not telling the truth. The changes happened when the cnn debates were introduced and I will not believe them until they are fixed. The msm is censoring candidates like Ron Paul,Mike Gravel,Dennis Kuncinich. Will it be fixed before the debates I hope so
Hey no problem youtube someone on here gave a re-rout link that we all have been using to get buy. Most don't care what videos the editors like. But thanks for trying to make that choice for us. Hope to see the issue resolved. YouTube is still awesome! From a little guy at the bottom of the lost category lists
ReplyDeleteThe New YouTube: Now only 87% paranoid malcontents!
ReplyDeleteit'd be better if you really brought them back >:|.
ReplyDeleteYOUTUBE you are silly - this hurts artists and musicians and alternative political thought - probably why you are doing this. It's your right to mess up everything--but we will strike back.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't be that hard to solve the problem. If i could do it, so can you.
ReplyDelete(YouTube ReBorn at http://freeshells.ch/~doyubi/ )
I REALLY hope they fix this!
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteFix it, yesterday.
sure takes a big company an awfully long time to sort out one thing.
ReplyDeletemore updates from youtube staff might be an idea guys!
Why do you guys keep messing with the subscription bar?!? you removed it and we all wanted it back. You bring it back and then cut out most of the videos shown there. Just put it back the way it was!
ReplyDeletebring back the categories.....
ReplyDeleteDoyubi, your a genius. Thats for posting your shell. It really works guys. YT is obviously lying and does not have our best interest at heart. But you do. 10 stars to you!
ReplyDeleteplease dont spam this blog it makes it mean a lot less i posted my email and reply from support. that tells it all if this gets spamed to death they will
ReplyDeletedeleat. i have search the web youtube was the only place that let new people get notice though the search by cat. if they bring it back awsome if not another site will see how inportant that is and we will all go there
EditorTube is so wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteIf this goes on much longer I think Google will have to kiss its billion dollar investment goodbye. Wonder what the shareholders are going to think about that? Whatever corporate agenda you've got going here, your best bet commercially (I'm assuming that an appeal to your sense of community is a waste of time) would be to return to the old system, ASAP. Bring back the categories, ditch the country-affiliation.
ReplyDeleteyour so right thucy2 they was thinking so big we split to countrys sell adds to them steam line dont need all the cat. bull, with selling adds to 10 diff utube spots we make bill. hehe they forget about us that watch this and the sub. and they lost the viewers )
ReplyDeleteYa like seriously get working... if you had it before it can't be that hard...
ReplyDeleteAre your headquarters still in the apartment?
ReplyDeleteWill you be providing the "technical reasons" by which this had to happen? If so where can I find this information?
ReplyDeleteGuys check this out it is a tool written by DOYUBI see posts below. It is a side browser that will sort the vids by categories and relevance for you. What a shame a single user can write the code faster than a billion dollar company. Seems to me they are a vulnerable beast ready to crack at the seams anytime now.
ReplyDeleteWell here is the link.
http://freeshells.ch/~doyubi/StillBornIndex.html
While searching for the best solution you guys may include a background color in the search box... Mi windows background color is black, and your fore color is black... I cant see what I'm typing :) Thx a lot, I love this place
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FIX THIS!!!
I don't understand the feeling that you needed to lie to us about this. Those who got a response know that you removed it thinking it would be better to make the changes you did. Just say that. We understand. Or just leave out the first two sentences of the second paragraph.
ReplyDeleteAnd why did you remove the link "Got Feedback?" from nearly every page? It makes it seem as though you've desided you don't want to hear from us any more. You say otherwise, so prove me wrong...Now, you've heard us and realize that we would like it back the other way, so just put it back. This isn't difficult.
And when you do, add MORE categories. How about one for "educational" and one for "religious"? Those are two subjects used quite a bit on You Tube that don't fit in any of the available categories.
Today is the 25th, how much longer will this take? Surely one week would be enough to fix a problem that you only intended to be a problem "in the short-term."
All about holding down Ron Paul. Yes, your working hard on a solution to bring it back, and to filter out Ron Paul at the same time. Technical reasons this had to happen in the short-term were you caved in to some "high up" Republican closed door bullchit. A great website has just been corrupted, time to move on all.
ReplyDeleteThis is my first & last comment.
I've heard from a credible source that not everyone inside YOUTUBE supports this censorship. If that is you, we need you to break ranks and speak out against this corporate power grab! Of course * what has leaked out from YOUTUBE is that they are trying to control what people see because of the upcoming CNN/YOUTUBE debates. However, as you all know, this hurts musicians and independent artists most of all. STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
ReplyDeleteI've heard from a credible source that not everyone inside YOUTUBE supports this censorship. If that is you, we need you to break ranks and speak out against this corporate power grab! Of course * what has leaked out from YOUTUBE is that they are trying to control what people see because of the upcoming CNN/YOUTUBE debates. However, as you all know, this hurts musicians and independent artists most of all. STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear you're bringing the Categories back. It was a bummer when they disappeared! Some of us prefer to find our own viewing material and we get to pick in the way we see fit with the Categories there to help. Thanks, in advance, for bringing them back!
ReplyDeleteIt's Monday night and still no categories. Since I don't feel like watching Japanese clips, soccer or boxing clips, or another drama prairie dog clip I guess I'll have to go elsewhere on the internets.
ReplyDeleteHow are the catagories not back yet? Pathetic Youtube.
ReplyDeleteim starting to loose patience
ReplyDeleteim starting to loose patience
ReplyDelete...and YouTube buckled under the political pressure payoffs and lost the confidence of many of it's loyal fans,,, way to go!!!
ReplyDeleteHow about you guys bring back the application for the DIRECTOR ACCOUNTS that you are no longer offering? Everyone who got a director account when it was available can still post 10+ MINUTE videos but why this limit applies only on the new users? You guys didn't even give the new users a chance to experience the director accounts? You guys need to bring back that feature more than anything else.
ReplyDeleteHow about you guys bring back the application for the DIRECTOR ACCOUNTS that you are no longer offering? Everyone who got a director account when it was available can still post 10+ MINUTE videos but why this limit applies only on the new users? You guys didn't even give the new users a chance to experience the director accounts? You guys need to bring back that feature more than anything else.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people are now starting accounts on liveleak because they don't think the categories are coming back, and that youtube/google has gotten too mainstream for it's own good. Many of them speculate this category thing is a paid effort to surpress certain political candidates during the CNN feature. I hope they're wrong, it would be sad to see this community leave for less commercial pastures.
ReplyDeleteThe REAL REASON for this is the govt doesn't want us to know THE TRUTH. I do not believe it was a cooincidene that all of this began right after I posted my videos about John McCain, and many others, committing PERJURY, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, ABUSE OF POWER, and more.
ReplyDeleteAnother day and still no category browsing...
ReplyDeleteI panicked for a minute there. Hopefully it'll be back up soon. Thanks You Tube for this amazing free service.
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