It might not seem like much of a deal, but the ‘all comments’ link allowed you to sort comments by thread, which the ‘show more’ button does not. YouTube threading is terrible, but better than nothing. I thought that the feature had been removed entirely until I found it by accident lurking in the 'all comments' header that looks exactly like the other two unclickable headers.

You’ll Watch What We Want & You’ll Like It

YouTube now dumps you on the ‘what to watch page’ by default. Perhaps it’s good for casual users without many subscriptions, but with 60+ subscriptions it’s a jumbled pile of crap with out-out-order uploads mixed in with playlist updates and videos people liked.

YouTube seems to treat subscribing to channels as merely information to feed into their algorithm to better suggest what you ‘really’ want to watch. I subscribe to channels because I want to watch them – and YouTube’s design changes have caused me to often miss new videos uploaded by the people I follow. More and more I find myself leaning on the subscription digest to guide my YouTube viewing.

Weirdly, 'What to Watch' recommends videos I’ve already seen. Also I’m not sure what the ’Hide this Activity Button is supposed to do. My guess is that it’s supposed to be like the long-lost x button, but the wording is unclear at best (does it hide just this video or all videos from that channel?) and, when I tried to test it out of my own upload page, it seemed to do nothing at all.