Comments on: YouTube’s Comment System Sucks

By: Pascal

Pascal — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:25:13 +0000

What sucks is that you can’t edit your comments.
You can delete them, but often when you repost them they don’t appear.
You cannot post a link in your comments either, and sometimes they say you can’t post your comment when you see no error in it.
And the maximal length of comments is really limited.
Youtube is really a shitty site, they really should do some improvements!

By: Hangman

Hangman — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:15:38 +0000

Yeah, the new interface sucks even more… too bad it wasn’t part of the April Fool’s joke.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:10:29 +0000

Whish it was still the old, ugly, disorganized but very functional and usable interface…. The new one seams to me an epic fail…will leave the tube for other platforms.

By: radomiro

radomiro — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:54:58 +0000

I agree, totally. But what can we do?
I did complain one time there to admins but nothing changed….

By: Sonny

Sonny — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:05:59 +0000

Yeah! And to think Youtube is owned by Google! Google for gods sakes. Its almost as if Youtube is their Red Headed Step Child, seeing as every year they see more and more of a deficit and aren’t making enough money with it.

By: Christoph Dollis

Christoph Dollis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:55:31 +0000

Dave Bandel, Hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!

By: david bandel

david bandel — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:18:26 +0000

yep. i’ve always hated youtube’s commenting system.

i love how if you exceed your commenting limit, it will give you an error, but not allow you to copy and paste the comment you just made. hope you have a perfect memory!

but my main beef is the same as yours: no threading.

you get a notice in your mail that someone replied to your comment. you’d like to reply back to them to continue ur hilarious flame war or something along those lines and you can’t even find the post.

half the time even if you use the “view all comments” feature, and ctrl-f for your reply, you won’t find it because either it was marked as spam (requiring you to view the html source of the page to find your comment) or it just disappeared magically as is often the case with youtube’s shitty commenting system.

the only reason they receive usability awards is because of politics. they’re a huge name on the internet and lots of money flows in and out of them. it’s the same reason al gore and obama have gotten nobel prizes. they’re completely political and therefore meaningless now.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:16:40 +0000

You are absolutely right about this. I’ve never seen ajax being used so poorly.
But then again, youtube’s site in general is an actual mess… can’t believe it recieves usability awards :s