First post, by Gemini000
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YouTube just rolled out a massive change to how commenting on videos is handled in an attempt to integrate the system more into Google+. (Which I can't use because it breaks my ability to watch videos uninterrupted.)
Here's basically what's happened in a nutshell:
* You can no longer up-vote, down-vote, reply, report or affect comments in any way unless you also have a Google+ page. (Which again, I've tried using Google+ and it causes video playback to often stall out on my end as well as constantly leave full-screen every few minutes.) (Actually, after doing some looking around, it turns out this only applies to comments left from before this change was rolled out, but this doesn't negate the next point...)
* You also can't actually leave comments anymore without a Google+ page! D:<
* Commenters can now specifically decide if people can reply to their comments or not. This is doubtlessly going to create endless confusion as commenters with nasty things to say abuse this feature.
* Notifications for comments no longer show up in the YouTube message system, which was lightning fast to use. You're now forced to get notifications through eMail or mobile text messages, neither of which are optimal for viewing large quantities of comments due to the way most of these systems work.
This is going to cause no end of havoc for me. It means if I want to be able to moderate my videos at all or leave comments for others, I'll need to be on Google+, but if I'm on Google+ I won't be able to actually WATCH videos reliably while logged in, which means I'll have to watch videos which not logged in and log in if I want to leave a comment... which is absolutely retarded. >_<;
And it's not like I'm on outdated hardware or using outdated software either. There's no excuse for the system to be failing like that for me... or wait, I do know an excuse... because I'm not using Google Chrome to browse the web. (Which again, another piece of software that doesn't agree with me since on three separate occasions on three different operating systems, my attempts to use it caused it to crash before I could even load up a web page.)
Google needs to stop breaking things and needs to stop forcing people to use their stuff. I'm getting close to the point where I may even stop using their search engine entirely if they can't get their act together.
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