YouTube 1st of March Update
Late last week, the YouTube development team flashed before our eyes the option to virtually add a social layer to the popular video sharing site and said that the changes would come ‘soon.’ Naturally, a couple of days later when you read that there’s been an update, you have your hopes high that it be the one promised, but no such luck. The experimental personalized homepages are still in the testing, with only few people actually using it. If you should want to opt-in on the hot action, here’s a link that will get you on board.
One of the new features appearing on YouTube is Character counter for video comments, useful for when you just start typing and don’t know when to stop, or lets you know just how many words you can fit in before hitting the ‘submit’ button.
Contextual help in ‘My Account’ is the second newly-added feature, and it has to do with the new help icons that have appeared next to some of the buttons in the account page. "To see instructions and helpful information related to managing things like your channel design and videos, just hover over the '?' icons. Click the 'read more' link to go directly to the full article related to that particular feature in our Help Center," the team’s blog reads on the topic.
Those two and the possibility to opt-in for the personalized home pages are the highlights of the update. As usual, there’s some work done that doesn’t usually catch everybody’s eye, but a heavy viewer will immediately notice. The Sort by Relevance and Sort by Date options have been brought back after receiving scores of feedback from the users that demanded this to happen. Two out of the four sorting methods have been added, but when could we expect the Sort by Ratings and Sort by View Count? Probably, the next update will clear the air, but you have to demand it in a strong voice.
Source: news.softpedia.com
