>everyone in chat has to have @ in front of their name on youtube now
>oshi marks are dead

>have an unique identifier and a display name as separate fields
>display the identifier
some indian middle manager got promoted for this

>>101662810 (OP)
Only faggots use references to vtubers in their names.

good thing i never use youtube chat

who cares

>>101663044
>who cares
vtubers can't read superchats properly now because instead of japanese it's all english handles

>>101663028
this but unironically
yt chat leaks memory like a sieve

>>101662810 (OP)
There really is no fucking point to putting an @ in front of everyone's name. That's ridiculous and it makes chat look retarded.
>>101663375
I don't think that's true, because if you go to some old VODs the only thing that's changed is that everyone has an @ symbol in front of their name but you're right that I'm not seeing any emojis.
However in FUWAMOCO's VODs, there are no @ symbols and there are a bunch of people with the pawprints in their name.
This change is really fucking stupid.

some retarded vtuber will have a name dox because of this
screenshot this

>>101662810 (OP)
This is going to suck for every vtuber who raids someone and talks in chat. Why the fuck change this after 20 years?

>>101662810 (OP)
What annoys me is that despite adding this random bullshit, it's still not possible to click on a name in chat and automatically reply to them - you have to copy paste their username. I'm not a big fan of Twitch but at least Twitch chat allows you to reply by clicking on a username. Such a simple fucking feature and yet they don't implement it.

>>101662810 (OP)
I've had my YT account since 2008, and through the Google+ bullshit and now this nothing has ever changed. Are those of us who signed up early on just lucky?

>>101662810 (OP)
I still can't get gifted subs so this changes nothing

>>101664977
I want to say it's misguided attempt to combat spambots, but more likely reason is some idiot at an office going "why don't we have handles at youtube, every platform uses handles. Add that @"

Youtube once told me that displaying oshi marks would never bring me closer to my oshi, it would only tear me apart from the last vestiges of other human beings across the world.

>>101662930
I assume Google has a shitload of staff in User Interface departments. They had a perfectly good user interface but they have to periodically release asinine little updates and iterations to justify these jobs. And when you have a really good user interface, generally any update is gonna be a downgrade of some sort.

Same story over at companies like Microsoft
>look it's the same menu but we moved it over here, now buy our new version of Office

You know some poor bastard is really into his Vtuber and when his user name/@ name aren't the same he's going to get treated like a stranger and it'll nuclear blast his soul and heart apart.
>Don't you recognize me xyz streamer?
>It's...it's me!
>chat gets washed away by 400 other messages

>>101666097
I will never forgive them for removing the customisable channel pages.

>>101666097
It really sucks...

>>101666097
Youve nailed it.

>>101666097
Unfortunately google has some of the worst UI I've ever seen and it gets worse every change. Basically like any modern UI. Lots of symbols that mean nothing instead of words, lots of menus scattered everywhere with names no one outside IT knows like the hamburger icon or the ellipsis icon, or any idea what they really are meant to imply, "just click it and find out" is the word. I'm surprised tech illiterate people can even become vtubers and figure out how to stream and get paid in this modern era of phone UIs.

>>101666138
kek this will absolutely happen

>>101666282
An ellipsis is three dots, that's always been a thing. But I'll give you that hamburger is fucking stupid

>>101665243
>One of the biggest companies on the planet
>can't program an efficient chat
>their website gets buggier and laggier as the years pass
>can't manage spam despite many people showing them how to detect most casual spambots easily
>removed unique identifiers from chats before for the sake of privacy (can't open a persons channel)
>add them back, out of nowhere, without warning, taking the whole site by surprise
>have regularly seen recentl across multiple devices and connections that thumbnails wouldn't even sow preview videos when hovered, the image preview literally doesn't load
>search was recently doing infinite loading, as was videos and even comments as of yesterday

All that, yet they still can't do something as fucking simple as moving old google accounts over to the new system
Utterly useless company.

>>101666282
>"just click it and find out" is the word
I fucking HATE this shit so much.
A common thing used to be either hovering an icon, or holding the pointer on the icon for a second, so it would show you a tooltip of what the icon is.
WHY DO SO MANY APPS NOT DO THIS NOW?!
WHERE'S THE FUCKING TOOLTIPS
I'M NOT GUESSING YOUR GAY-ASS DESIGN DEPARTMENTS FUCKING MAGICAL SYMBOLS KILL YOURSELVES

>>101665164
>and through the Google+ bullshit and now this nothing has ever changed
Did you forget G+ trying to force real names like Facebook? I didn't. I have a brand account to this day because the only way to get my pseudonym back at the time was to make a brand account.

Phones
All of you are phoneposters and they keep making websites worse for you.
Because you are so retarded you install an app instead of using a site and are too retarded to install an adblock.

>>101666613
Yes I know it's always been a thing in language for as long as we know, but in UI, it really is annoying since it puts meaninglessness over meaning

>>101667637
You could avoid doing that. I don't remember exactly how but I had a friend show me and so I still have my original username and it's not a brand account (I assume anyway, because I can still receive gifted memberships).

This is why Twitch will stay as the dominate streaming space for the foreseeable future.

YouTube is just such a fucking abysmal place to be a chatter.

>>101667980
Only real downside to Twitch is that you can't avoid ads.

>>101667530
>WHERE'S THE FUCKING TOOLTIPS
Phonebrained devs, since you can't hover in mobile and long tap is used as right click people stopped adding tooltips

>>101668147
I don't mind the ads so much, since they can be put on a timer, usually the streamer uses it as an excuse to take a break, stretch, etc. So I can do the same.

>>101668147
You can, its really not difficult. Some ad block extensions still work and those that don't can still be made to work by using github extensions. Alternatively just use a VPN and change your location to Russia.

>>101664503
use hyperchat bro

>>101668147
No the biggest downside is that their vod system is complete ass
That and the general chat culture and hype trains and shit, but that depends a lot on the streamer

>>101667980
You say that as streamers escape twitch in droves because it's run by even bigger retards, and the income from streaming there is dropping to the point it's more profitable to stream on kick instead.

>>101662810 (OP)
It has been like this for the past 10 years
Didn't they add handles back when google+ or whaever it was died?

>>101668147
>is that you can't avoid ads.
i mean...... maybe YOU cant
because you are too retarded to use google
but i dont get ads

>>101667530
Because applications are mobile first these days and tooltips don't work on touch screens

>>101668397
But now handles are what you see in chat

>>101668397
Handles aren't new, it's just that youtube chat now shows the fucking handle instead of the display name because why the fuck not

>>101668544
Does it? I'm still seeing names normally

>>101668368
>You say that as streamers escape twitch in droves because it's run by even bigger retards,
They really aren't. Some very large creators are moving because they're being offered multi-million dollar deals to move, but given most indie vtubers to this day are still choosing Twitch, it will continue to be the favourite.

Twitch has a better interface, better discoverability, better interactions, better integrations, better networking opportunities, better customisation, easier to set up, easier to monetise and less restrictions on content.

>it's more profitable to stream on kick instead
Yeah because Kick is running at a huge fucking loss, even bigger than Twitch to try and incentivise people to move. But Kick has the reputation of being full of all the people who got banned from YouTube and Twitch, AKA horrible people. So it's really doubtful that it will grow into anything even if they are offering a 90/10 split. They can't offer 90/10 forever, they will have to increase their cut at some point.

>>101668147
Massive skill issue

>>101668603
It's either some setting that has to be changed on a channel basis, or it's the usual thing where they starts rolling the changes out to some users first to see if anyone complains like with the extra-large thumbnails on desktop a couple of months ago

>>101668604
>moving because they're being offered multi-million dollar deals to move
this isnt 2020 retard
no one is getting deals to move to a specific platform
and the ones who did in the past all moved back to twitch because it is superior

>>101668788
???
XqC signed himself to Kick in 2023 for $100M

>>101668788
Isn't Miguel Gato paid to stream on Kick?

>>101668871
and he still streams on twitch even after the 100 mil of gambling money kek
because
twitch
is
better

Just saw this happen in the middle of a stream I was watching and holy shit it looks like absolute garbage. I can only hope there will be massive backlash for this (and that for the first time in history youtube's staff will listen to its users and change it back).

>>101668994
I don't understand why you're replying to me.

My entire post was about that Twitch is a superior platform and that despite some big names moving, because it is superior that all smaller creators will continue to use it and Kick will eventually crumble under it's own weight.

So why are you tell me things I already know and argued for?

>>101669105
have sex

>>101669081
>for the first time in history youtube's staff will listen to its users and change it back
lol
lmao

>>101664748
vtubers can't be that stupid.... can they?

>>101669131
u offerin bb?

>>101662930
It's fucking insane.
They gave me a random ass string of numbers at the end of my unique handle that I've had for decades back when youtube still had fucking stars.
What's the point of a username if it's never seen anywhere?

>>101662810 (OP)
So they fixed the Youtube chat memory leak issue with this, right? They didn't just pass over it again for a feature absolutely nobody wanted, right?

>>101671659
Memory leak is the feature. Gotta differentiate from the other streaming platform.

>some stream chats have @handles
>some stream chats have usernames
Youtube is shitting its bed rn wtf

>>101666138
I want a handjob of the Gura sock puppet

>>101668603
Having a unique name thats the same for both make this update redundant my name is still the same because my handle and display name are the same lol

>>101673074
It's either a slow rolling of a new shitty feature like they love doing to make people look like schizos and deafen opinions if they aren't positive, or actually a bug and they're too busy trying to kill adblockers (and failing) to notice.

>>101671449
I don't want to believe they are that dumb but yeah... some might be that fucking dumb

>>101662964
>Sora 12th apostle
I die inside everytime I see it. Fucking 12yo cringe

>>101667807
Oh yeah, just as an icon. I get you now, sorry for being a retard.

Hello world

>>101667530
Tooltips haven't been helpful since the 2000s.

>>101668451
>>101668149
They literally do work.
I've used apps that let you long press an icon and it shows you a tooltip.
Icons aren't somehow magically left click only.

>>101662810 (OP)
YT really needs a widely accepted BTTV-like extension at this point to fix all this retarded shit.

>>101674383
Yeah I changed mine to match the exact day they added the retarded handles

>>101667433
>>can't manage spam
*won't
It's on purpose

>>101668300
for what? I don't chat and I don't care what mouth breathing retards have to say

>>101668603
Oh cool so I'm back to having new members get confused over half my channel name and how to read it when it comes over to chats I talk in? I mean fine but I did remove it from my display name in chat for a reason.

>>101666097
Sadly google is one of the worst at this. The only way for middle management to rise in the ranks over yhere is if they launch a couple of projects like this regardless of how sucessful they are. Thats also why you see google force out so much stuff and then abandon it right afterwards, its purpose was juat to be completed so manager Jabar could get a promotion to deputy task adminastrator, not to actually fix or improve something.

>>101671659
Is that why yoube has been using a shitload of my phone's battery and heating it up like a motherfucker whenever I use it?

>>101662930
saaarrr thats not true saarr please buy premium

>>101667433
They won't even though the google+ shit they were trying to force is gone, making people doxx themselves to sell the data is way too valuable. Wouldn't be surprised if they just outright delete old brand accounts at some point

>>101668300
Increases likelihood of a chat shadowban because they think you're a bot for using a 3rd party embedded extension.

>>101675837
It's not even that, it's
>Sora's apostle first apostle of the 13
or something equally cringe which is compound by the fact that they're an eop that more than likely only has a terminal clip+thumbnail viewer's knowledge and enjoyment of Sora. I think they're a greyname too which is the shit nugget on top of the shitcake.

>>101684278
honestly, I've only ever used FFZ on twitch because (outside of ads) twitch chat's UI has never gotten cancerous enough to need anything else. but youtube needs a widely accepted extension because their native emote system and now their username system is fucking dogshit

>>101686796
Bro, thats a lie. Ive been using it for years and never been shadowbanned

Youtube studios. You can clean up the handle a bit. So far only one channel has been affected the rest are fine.

>>101666097
It's the same story everywhere. Enshittification, ZIRP slop, etc.

>>101679549
??? Elaborate?

>>101667980
Twitch UI is 1000x worse

>>101671659
Youtube's ram usage is so fucking funny. I get up to 4gb sometimes.

>>101671659
i think they have fixed it, i've been monitoring my memory with saba's chat open and so far no memory leaks, its been on for 3 hours

>>101662810 (OP)
That's no good, I guess they'll have to change back to displaying real names again

>>101665279
Do other streaming platforms show handles in chat instead of names? I'm pretty sure twitch and kick don't, but I don't use them much so not sure.

>>101689819
no lol

>>101689819
1000% correct.

>>101695881
twitch shows handles but lets you add a nickname which can have nonstandard characters like japanese, if you have one of those it shows the handle in a weaker text after the nickname

>>101673264
a

>>101663028
same

>>101662810 (OP)
They need to revert this shit ASAP. It's a formatting eyesore with most of the names lowercase letter spew, and why even have "@" if it's in every name?

>>101689819
The site as a whole kinda sucks if you want to navigate vods or something, but the chat is so much better it's not even funny

>>101693796
They sure as hell haven't, I was watching a 2view stream instead of saba and had to kill the tab twice because I was about to hit my PC's RAM limit

>>101695881
TikTok does that, and that's all that matters.

>>101667980
Never ever using Twitch.

>>101667980
They just need a less intrusive model for ads... which probably won't happen because that's their main tool for strong-arming you into buying Turbo

>>101715962
Twitch doesn't give you ads on channels you're subscribed to, so at least your oshi's streams won't get interrupted if you do that. Of course getting an ad blocker is an option too

>>101668544
>mfw youtube legacy account
Feels good not being affected by this shit