In the Latest Installment of Treating Your Content Creators Like Snowflakes
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A while back, YouTube removed public Dislike counts as announced here (emphasis added):
We’re making the dislike counts private across YouTube, but the dislike button is not going away.
This change will start gradually rolling out today.
Despite such a statement—and perhaps to no one’s surprise—YouTube recently finally added insult to injury by actually removing the Dislike button from Shorts, as announced here:
[W]e’re … retiring the dislike button.
Instead, we’ll rely on … “Not Interested” and “Don’t recommend this channel,” to … tune your feed and serve up content….
The update sparked discussion across the web, such as on the r/mildlyinfuriating subreddit.
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In a now-privated video formerly available here, the content creator behind Cube Dimensions, a channel on Minecraft Shorts and with nearly a quarter of a million subscribers, made a public appeal to be remonetized by YouTube after being allegedly wrongfully demonetized.
We have made some key additions and renames to ensure our sorting options align better with your expectations:
Dedicated Content Types: We’ve added a new Shorts filter to the ‘Type’ menu. This gives viewers more control over whether they see Shorts or VODs (long-form videos) in their search results, so you can find exactly what you’re looking for, regardless of format.
‘Prioritize’ Menu: The ‘Sort By’ menu has been renamed to ‘Prioritize’. This refined sorting menu aims to maximize utility.
‘Popularity’ Filter: The ‘View count’ sort option has been renamed to ‘Popularity’. This filter allows you to easily locate popular videos related to your search queries. Our systems assess a video’s view count and other relevance signals, such as watch time, to determine its popularity for that specific query.
Simplified Filter Options
We are simplifying and reorganizing the filter menu to make it more intuitive and improve the overall search experience. This includes removing some options that were not working as expected and had contributed to user complaints.
The two filters we’re removing are ‘Upload Date – Last Hour’ and ‘Sort by Rating.’ However, you can still find the most recent search results in one of our ‘Upload Date’ filters, and explore popular, highly-viewed videos using the new ‘Popularity’ filter option.
These changes have led to user backlash.
YouTube (@TeamYouTube) has removed the ability to search by upload date.
Removing this basic function will make it impossible to find breaking news from small channels with few viewers.
Evidently, force-feeding people "curated" slop is more important than site usability. pic.twitter.com/W5LJgjDuZK
