Google should be celebrating their over 50M G+ users by now.
The improving the comments bullshit is just an excuse to forcefully implement the completely unnecessary Google +. Considering how some of the media were convinced by it, it worked to some extent. Just by scrolling through the comments of a random video, you would see that their so called plan to clean things up actually went into the opposite direction. The top comments is essentially just another list of comments that has your occasional filth. Except now the filth can comprise of unlimited characters and post links.
Every change made to Youtube so far is self destructive. Channel recommendation, the one design, the general layout of the site. They strip away functions that weren't broken with a poorly designed mess. I am amazed at their ability to make what was essentially shit, better looking. I swear they must be scraping their designers from the bottom of the barrel.
There are alot of assumptions being made, and none of them have hit the mark. For example, remember a time when your homepage allowed you to discover random videos, rather having to rely on their fail as fuck recommendation system (that shows me the same video I watched 10 seconds ago!!!). They are trying to create some algorithm for personal preferences while taking away the users ability to choose for themselves, leaving you with a computer telling you what to watch. Now isn't that a grand vision.
I fear that Youtube in a few years time would become something that is intolerable. And that would be a sad time indeed.
The recommendation thing is bullshit as ever, it keep recommending me some kiddie land videos, why would I even watch barbie and some useless kinder egg show casing video? My lil sister only watched a few, like 4, some the same, and now it keeps popping up in my screen, and omg I just want to...aarrggghhhh.
I even subscribed to some great youtubers and youtube doesnt recommend their videos. Fuck.
Let's just hope that Youtube fix this BS and CLEAR UP GOOGLE+. I'D RATHER HAVE THE 2012 YT.