Is YouTube playing silly buggers for anyone else?

Malevolence · 5 Feb 2019 at 19:29

For some bizarre reason, within the space of a couple of hours YouTube has decided to delete the side bar on the left (the one that shows your subscriptions and the like). It was there earlier, but have just gone to watch something else and no it's gone?

Any ideas?

Rroff · 5 Feb 2019 at 19:33

It has been happening on and off for a lot of people over the last few months - YouTube doesn't seem to have a fix last I checked - you can access it via sticking some random things on the end of the URL like www.youtube.com/channel or something like that - which should give you the old layout and the menu icon thingy working (while on that page) but it won't fix the problem.

Kerplunk · 5 Feb 2019 at 19:35

That's a big bit of meat there in the thumbnail

Malevolence · 5 Feb 2019 at 20:42

Just installed Firefox to check. It's working on that browser, but it's still not present on Chrome. Also, on Chrome it seems to load as the bar flashes on but then it flashes straight off again.

andy_mk3 · 5 Feb 2019 at 20:53

Ah, the third tab

I had a funny feeling something would be there

jpaul · 5 Feb 2019 at 20:54

I thought there were reddit threads on reverting
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/834a9k/want_the_old_youtube_format_back/

Malevolence · 5 Feb 2019 at 21:05

jpaul said:
I thought there were reddit threads on reverting
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/834a9k/want_the_old_youtube_format_back/

Nice one, that works a treat. And it looks far better.

mushtafa · 5 Feb 2019 at 21:07

Click the menu button top left to show/hide the menu

Malevolence · 5 Feb 2019 at 21:09

mushtafa said:
Click the menu button top left to show/hide the menu

Yeah, like that wasn't the first thing I tried.

Rroff · 5 Feb 2019 at 21:09

mushtafa said:
Click the menu button top left to show/hide the menu

That is the problem - for a few months now people at random have had it where clicking on that either nothing happens or it loads up blank and/or immediately clears again and you can't do anything with it.

hyperseven · 5 Feb 2019 at 21:11

nope fine for me, but using the Enhancer extension.

Malevolence · 4 Mar 2020 at 05:12

Bit of a bump, but YouTube is playing up for me again? Anyone else getting loads of preview thumbnails missing?

LuckyBenski · 4 Mar 2020 at 11:43

andy_mk3 said:
Ah, the third tab I had a funny feeling something would be there

Yeah for some reason @Malevolence felt the need to borrow my PC while I was in the middle of my daily, er, research. :mad:

LoadsaMoney · 4 Mar 2020 at 12:46

No issues here on FF.

darael · 4 Mar 2020 at 12:57

Malevolence said:
Bit of a bump, but YouTube is playing up for me again? Anyone else getting loads of preview thumbnails missing?

I've had this for weeks now, using Firefox on the old version of YouTube. I just put it down to YouTube trying to coax me over to their new version, which I don't want to do as I can't see recently uploaded videos in the new version.

Malevolence · 4 Mar 2020 at 18:36

Am using Chrome here, and I had the same thought. I can't stand the new version either, so I guess I'm sticking with the bugged version for now.

Darkpassenger · 4 Mar 2020 at 22:06

Ever since they added premium, it's been rubbish

Pawnless Endgame · 4 Mar 2020 at 22:37

My sidebar has been showing ok, but YT has been clashing with my ad-blocker lately. It tries to push the ads through then keeps breaking with an error. Wait for a few seconds (might have to repeat a few times) then it goes on to the video ok. My issue with YT ads though is that there are too many of them nowadays.

E.g. a 30-minute video with 2 or 3 pre-roll ads before the video starts, then 6 minutes in I see 2 mid-roll ads, then 15 minutes in, another 2 mid-roll ads. NO THANK YOU! Tone it down a bit and I might turn the ad-blocker off.

GGizmo · 5 Mar 2020 at 00:24

Pawnless Endgame said:
My sidebar has been showing ok, but YT has been clashing with my ad-blocker lately. It tries to push the ads through then keeps breaking with an error. Wait for a few seconds (might have to repeat a few times) then it goes on to the video ok.

That keeps happening to me recently. The videos take a while to start loading.

ianh · 5 Mar 2020 at 00:55

The layout of the YT home page changes almost weekly for me with new sections aded/removed, things moved around, existing sections expanded to 2-3 llnes instead of one then reverting etc. The YT site is just buggy as hell.