YouTube’s progress bar has had more glow ups than my high school crush.
K-Lew510 on
Interesting !
Alarmed_News_7556 on
Always nice to see how things go for better
cherry313 on
Remember the days of being able to let a whole video pre load. Not so important now with faster speeds but was a cool feature.
Mechanized1 on
2006 was a real dark time for us all.
Tabby_Tibs on
2008 – 2010 was peak YouTube
decomposition_ on
Anyone remember when you could message people on YouTube and add friends?
Ok-Fondant2536 on
The entire world is turning into shit!
chanunnaki on
the button for miniplayer is no longer there for me
19610taw3 on
I don’t remember the early 2006 one. I remember the before and all the ones after.
Dojyaaan4C on
I remember this old technique I had where those little yellow boxes in the bar you could just skip past them in the video bar and they would disappear meaning the add wouldn’t play
wa27 on
I don’t mind the modern progress bar design at all but I do miss when the progress bar was always displayed underneath the video constantly instead of the auto-hiding transparent thing we get now.
Cyfa on
2011-2012 was peak
fight me
Bloxskit on
God the simplicity of the 2005 one.
RealOfficerHotPants on
2011-2012 looked so good. I really wish that Holo UI never got ditched in favor of material design.
UpDownUpDownCircle on
Woah. We were in the gradient phase of UI for longer than I thought.
What is this? The full screen box above and the arrows below work great. This icon sucks and never resizes the screen correctly.
Bigg-Sipp on
Kinda interesting how people like old YouTube bar better. I love the newer look of it but I didn’t like the next button. It rarely if ever had anything I wanted to watch next but I don’t watch playlists or anything like that. I jump from creator to creator and video to video.
cubosh on
missed one — earlier this year youtube started randomly toying with the color magenta – specifically a gradient from red to magenta in their bar
exophades on
Evolution of ~~the YouTube progress bar~~ HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Additional_Fruit931 on
Shit, reminds me of the good old days of Response Videos
kiwibonga on
A lot of people forget that YouTube used to be absolutely terrible and even looking at this bar the wrong way would break the stream and force you to refresh the whole page, regardless of browser or platform or actual connectivity. We had to suffer through this for almost 10 years before they fixed it.
JeebusChristBalls on
I would just be happy if the default volume wasn’t 100%.
peanut-britle-latte on
I love the new lock. Timestamps are a game changer.
vendetta33 on
So, after 2011, the UI personnel have been doing nothing.
Mental_Thing_7899 on
Remember when there were no yellow stripes?
ToCoolforAUsername on
You used to be able to play Snake on any Youtube video before by pausing and pressing left and up on the keyboard. It was removed when they updated the progress bar in 2015(?).
Witty-Park7038 on
I hate how you can’t scroll in fullscreen now.
tomjirinec on
Worth pointing out the first half were the Flash Player based ones and only the second half the HTML5 based ones.
PikachuTrainz on
u/repostsleuthbot
JLL1111 on
I think I prefer the bars they used from 2013-2025 tbh
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I can’t lie Im not a big fan of the new bar
Got better then worse.
YouTube’s progress bar has had more glow ups than my high school crush.
Interesting !
Always nice to see how things go for better
Remember the days of being able to let a whole video pre load. Not so important now with faster speeds but was a cool feature.
2006 was a real dark time for us all.
2008 – 2010 was peak YouTube
Anyone remember when you could message people on YouTube and add friends?
The entire world is turning into shit!
the button for miniplayer is no longer there for me
I don’t remember the early 2006 one. I remember the before and all the ones after.
I remember this old technique I had where those little yellow boxes in the bar you could just skip past them in the video bar and they would disappear meaning the add wouldn’t play
I don’t mind the modern progress bar design at all but I do miss when the progress bar was always displayed underneath the video constantly instead of the auto-hiding transparent thing we get now.
2011-2012 was peak
fight me
God the simplicity of the 2005 one.
2011-2012 looked so good. I really wish that Holo UI never got ditched in favor of material design.
Woah. We were in the gradient phase of UI for longer than I thought.
https://preview.redd.it/yv597j20hxtf1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3bae00d9c0dc2b73e57e8c3bf180a8fc97d658f
What is this? The full screen box above and the arrows below work great. This icon sucks and never resizes the screen correctly.
Kinda interesting how people like old YouTube bar better. I love the newer look of it but I didn’t like the next button. It rarely if ever had anything I wanted to watch next but I don’t watch playlists or anything like that. I jump from creator to creator and video to video.
missed one — earlier this year youtube started randomly toying with the color magenta – specifically a gradient from red to magenta in their bar
Evolution of ~~the YouTube progress bar~~ HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Shit, reminds me of the good old days of Response Videos
A lot of people forget that YouTube used to be absolutely terrible and even looking at this bar the wrong way would break the stream and force you to refresh the whole page, regardless of browser or platform or actual connectivity. We had to suffer through this for almost 10 years before they fixed it.
I would just be happy if the default volume wasn’t 100%.
I love the new lock. Timestamps are a game changer.
So, after 2011, the UI personnel have been doing nothing.
Remember when there were no yellow stripes?
You used to be able to play Snake on any Youtube video before by pausing and pressing left and up on the keyboard. It was removed when they updated the progress bar in 2015(?).
I hate how you can’t scroll in fullscreen now.
Worth pointing out the first half were the Flash Player based ones and only the second half the HTML5 based ones.
u/repostsleuthbot
I think I prefer the bars they used from 2013-2025 tbh