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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:21:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   do you ever get the urge to edit together a mockup of what Youtube's interface would look like if it was a Windows 95 application?
   or is that just me?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:36:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Because I regularly interact with the Youtube UI on three platforms (Browser, Mobile, Roku) and they're all different sorts of GUI designs but they all share a common thread of not really being that straightfoward. there's a lot of menus and submenus and submenus and and inconsistent design.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:38:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     pop quiz: where is this? how many submenus deep is this?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:39:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and the weird-out-of-context thing where the whole interface has to fit within the box the video player itself is taking up on the page.
     Like, if you did this as a Windows 95 application, you'd put the interface around a video frame, not put the interface inside the video frame.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:40:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so I was just thinking that if you made a windows-95-design-language version of the Youtube interface, it'd be a lot clunkier looking, but the interface would in some ways be more usable.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:43:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm not just suggesting "RealPlayer", I'm thinking about what if you took the capabilities and functionality of the current YouTube player, and redesigned /that/ in the Windows 95 design style.

   • Tomoko (tomoko_kuroki@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:44:52 JST Tomoko

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     @foone What does this even mean??? Like will it make the captions look like old cable captions or change it to a more modern digital caption look?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:44:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Tomoko

     @Tomoko_Kuroki my understanding is that you can override caption colors from the default, right? but then some videos might want to do something special with their embedded subtitle colors (like one guy speaks in red, other guy speaks in blue), and this controls if you want to let that video play as-is, or override that and only use your set color.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:46:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • AlexB

     @vmp_ oh wow I had missed or forgotten that somehow. Awesome!

   • AlexB (vmp_@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 14:46:46 JST AlexB

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     @foone perhaps leveraging this book https://bsky.app/profile/tubetime.bsky.social/post/3lbkoa5m77c2p

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 15:15:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Exec

     @exec neato!

   • Exec (exec@furry.engineer)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 15:15:08 JST Exec

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     @foone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWJatRxfz8 ?
     (if you don't know, switch to Japanese captions on this one)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 15:15:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • SkaveRat 🐀 :verified:

     @skaverat if I had thought about it, it would have been!

   • SkaveRat 🐀 :verified: (skaverat@skaverat.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 15:15:42 JST SkaveRat 🐀 :verified:

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     @foone for a second I thought the background was from a rickroll