Why was it removed in the first place?
Bury old content on old channels.
Go to Vsauce, sort from oldest and be surprised.
My money is on one of either
- sorting made it too easy to skip shit content and YouTube decided they lost engagement
- it’s too confusing for normies
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Damn I’ve gotten so cynical about social media.
If you’re confused by sorting there’s a really nice sandpit further down the road. It even has a little toy excavator!
So they could reintroduce it 6 months later and get cheered for doing the bare ass minimum.
Google making a good change on YouTube wasn’t on my bingo card this week. I’m positively surprised.
There are federated video file sharing services. Maybe Google saw how spez fucking up is causing people to search for alternatives - especially federated ones - for all services and went, “Maaaybe we should add some easy to add features that people are wanting, like returning the ability to sort by oldest”?
Nah, must be a coincidence. They always A/B roll user hostile changes and then implement them fully. They know they can get away with it
Now if they would just let me show all the comments on a video, or at least give me an option to search the comments on a video!
They try really hard to test our patience. It never should have been removed 🙄🙄🙄
Exactly, Youtube never should have removed that sorting option. Such a weird thing to do that only impairs users, without benefit for Youtube or content creators (assuming you can monetize old videos).
There may be an argument that not allowing to sort by oldest makes people watch fewer old videos which means they can reduce caching server costs by moving older videos off most of the servers. Not sure how big that impact would be financially, though.
I never really understood why they seem to keep obfuscating video content on their video streaming platform.
Yeah I would think they’d want people to find content as quickly as possible
It’s bizarre it was even removed in the first place. I hate the enshittification of the internet.
I thought people loved watching part1, part2 and part4, as suggested by youtube. I’m shocked! :D
Seriously, and you know it’s purely the work of the executives and business managers, cause no developer would ever think it makes sense to remove functionality just because.
This is what happens in capitalist markets, and especially publicly traded companies, when your market share has reached saturation and there is no natural profit growth, you have to start paywalling currently free features/content to continue the quarterly profits.
I have the feeling that the only reason they’re bringing back the feature is because of their push to integrate podcasts within YouTube. It makes sense to be able to sort by oldest to newest in the context of podcast episodes.
Never understood why they would remove functionality… I watch way way too much YouTube and typically gravitate to channels that have timeline stories.
How revolutionary
Oh wow, finally it’s back.
