7mo ago

Prime UX design, 10/10 would recommend

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All the fucking time. This shit is infuriating.
I didn't get this. Anyone care to explain?
- There's like a button on top of the video or next to it i'm not aure, but aometimes you click on a video and youhappen to hit that button instead,
  Youtube opens some faq page, if you click to go back, the front page has now been refreshed and the video is gone never to be seen again
  
  To elaborate, the button is overlayed on the thumbnail of a video, and is reeeaaally big, so it’s super easy to accidentally click it
  
  Dang. That hasn't happened to me yet, but it sounds infuriating
  
  Could make it open in a new tab, at least.
- @remindme@mstdn.social 1 day
Oh I guess that wasn't just me being an idiot, this is some kind of systemic idiocy. Nice to know.
I solely open YouTube videos in new tabs can't relate.
- I new-tab basically anything. Faster than having to reload the search page 20 times looking for a solution.
- How does that stop you from being affected? It's literally an a element
  
  I mean I do get the page
  But I don't lose some video I may never find again
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites.
- Why are you promoting it like it's one of those scam sites?
  
  Feel free conduct a cursory search for it on this very platform which will take all of five seconds.
Yeah that sucks, but have you ever heard of a thing called the "Back" button?
- Yes, but it does a refresh for some reason when you use it. And it also makes the thing more painful sometimes, because first the browser uses the cache, shows you the page as you left it, then it does a refresh before anything becomes clickable
  
  But if you already watched the video then should there not be a link like "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar" in your browser history?

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