This is a major week for YouTube (GOOG, GOOGL). It's getting another outline and new highlights—all of which have been in progress, deliberately and systematically, for quite a while, and all of which, to the extent I'm concerned, are welcome!
Now is the ideal time. As the YouTube blog calls attention to, "When YouTube propelled 12 years prior, it was a solitary site that upheld one video organize, 320×240 at 4:3 perspective proportion." 320×240 pixels? Man, that is not in any case sufficiently enormous for the YouTube logo nowadays.
Which, incidentally, is new, alongside new textual styles and new hues. The logo plays down the TV-ness of the old one, since, you know—who sits in front of the TV sets any longer?
On the desktop, you get four delicious new highlights:
The strange Theater Mode catch, which never truly did much, now accomplishes something awesome. It influences the video to fill the screen with the exception of the menu bar and YouTube controls. It's one hold back before Full Screen, and really valuable.
No more "Load More" catches! The Comments scroll perpetually, stacking more remarks or recordings naturally. Same thing with the thumbnails page.
You would now be able to review a thumbnail by indicating it without clicking.
The new Dark Theme is implied for evening time seeing so all that white isn't so blinding. It makes all the white zones of the screen dark. To turn it on, click your symbol (your little record symbol in the upper-right corner of the screen), click "Dim Theme," and, in the subsequent board, turn on "Actuate Dark Theme."
There are a few changes in the telephone application, as well. The enormous one: You've generally possessed the capacity to control the playback speed of a video on your PC, utilizing the little sprocket menu. Be that as it may, now, at last, you can accelerate or back off playback on the application, as well! The trap is to tap the three dabs in the upper right, and after that hit "Playback Speed."
It's difficult to update something as immense and prevalent as YouTube. Be that as it may, guess what? They've done it. The present YouTube refresh is a major heap of well done.
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