Extremely petty complaint about youtube (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by buckykat@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Inb4 youtube is bad for a million other reasons. Yes I know, most of them are ameliorated by extremely heavy adblocking, that's not what this is about.

In the last couple days, youtube has completely forgotten how to format a basic grid layout. Look at those inconsistent gaps between thumbnails, look at those misaligned columns, what the fuck is going on here?

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[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

I stopped using it after they asked history to be on. For me now the page is empty. I just use freetube. Solid app. Just my subscriptions.

[-] NoYouLogOff@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

Blocked ads causing misalignment?

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

The ablockers haven't changed, maybe youtube's ad embedding has

[-] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure it's this.

[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Looks fine to me, but I'm backendsighted

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

World's strongest CSS frontend developer

[-] BeanBoy@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Retvrn to table based layouts

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

🤢

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I REPLACED MY TOOTHPASTE WITH CUM soypoint-1

[-] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

I try to keep my cursor in those channels as I scroll so that nothing plays while it assumes I’m hovering. I bet those hovers count as plays and this makes engagement look higher.

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

What I suspect is happening here is that it's using a flexbox instead of a grid. I'm guessing it has a flex direction of row (horizontal left to right), uses flex wrap, and has each video thumbnail have a flex basis to keep them around the same size. It probably makes it easier to look good enough at most screen sizes without needing to have a bunch of media queries change the number of columns at different screen sizes, at the cost of things not always being perfectly aligned. Probably a good tradeoff compared to the alternative tbh.