It makes it extremely hard to see into the past. And isn't that a big part of what YouTube is for?
Visually, YouTube's new design is a big upgrade: It's far less noisy, the colors are less offensive, and the new Flash player is beautifully simple – a call-back, almost, to the original three-color player from 2005-6. But the design includes some functional changes, too. Google says the design is intended to make it easier to "find the channels you love and subscribe, subscribe, subscribe;" which, aside from sounding a little obsessive, makes sense. The future of YouTube, writes John Seabrook, is all about premium content, or channels.
This update is the first that actually hurts old YouTube in service of the new. One of the first things I noticed was that there's no way to search for videos by date anymore. You can search within the last hour, day, week, month or year, but you can't sort by newest or oldest.
This is a pretty important feature for the world's biggest video archive, I think!
And yet it was intentionally removed, as YouTube PR told BuzzFeed FWD on Twitter:
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