1. When are they going to start offering higher quality videos?

Posted at 6:49PM on Oct 26th 2007 by robotrock

2. Thank god for Greasemonkey which will reverse the hideous changes. The red will take away from the videos. YouTube needs to take some point from the deviantART design squad. They keep everything solid with no bright colors so that we can keep our eyes on what is important - the art. Google is just taking away from the YouTube experience with this one.

And I second the higher quality videos. You can't watch videos on YouTube fullscreen most of the time due to quality issues. =\ They need to upgrade their max resolution and seriously upgrade the max video size. I'm sure Google wouldn't even notice the server hit if video sizes doubled and neither would most users. Yes, we would be leaving dial-up and slow DSL users in the past but seriously, how are we ever supposed to advance to the point of Finland or Japan or Sweden when we still have users using 56K? Services need to stop catering to these and improve the user experience of the majority.

Posted at 8:19PM on Oct 26th 2007 by Josh

3. Ever since Google bought YouTube, I wasn't really happy with the results.

It seemed more bad things came out than good things.

As far as I still know, videos are still low-res and awful, the site itself still looks awful (but with a slight touch-up), and more videos get banned and users get banned every day over the dumbest things. That's YouTube for you.

Unfortunately, most average users don't care, and continue to use it. The only thing that still keeps me tied to YouTube is the tons of user content that's been established there for years.

I find these 3 other video sites give online user videos justice:

Brightcove : http://www.brightcove.com/

MSN Video : http://video.msn.com/

Viddler : http://www.viddler.com/

These 3 sites give much more higher-res videos, a better site to work on, better ease of use, more tools to work when viewing videos, and a ton more things than YouTube has.

Just keeping people's options open...

Posted at 8:38PM on Oct 26th 2007 by michael

4. youtube is not like when it started.. now everyone just wants a deal!

http://www.spymac.com/details/?2290046

Posted at 8:47PM on Oct 26th 2007 by christen

5. Google Video allows people to download (most) videos easily.

Google owns YouTube.

YouTube does not have a download option.

Why?

Posted at 9:44PM on Oct 26th 2007 by Eric

6. For all the Google bashers... Didn't Google promise a high degree of autonomy for YouTube?

If you don't like what's been done (or rather, not done), blame the people who are actually doing (or not) things...

Posted at 12:02AM on Oct 27th 2007 by Mysterius

7. Looking at the revamped site it looks nice, but i personally like the darker look as opposed to the all white and blue, it just hurts! But no matter what it looks like, YouTube will always be the place to watch crappy quality videos!

Posted at 5:25AM on Oct 27th 2007 by Maverick

8. I still think You Tube is excellent.

Want a laugh? Click onto this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAiJGQeuHOE

Good entertainment at the click of a mouse!!

Love, Light and Peace

JC

Posted at 3:13PM on Oct 27th 2007 by JerryChance