15 may 2015 - YouTube's new video player design - thoughts?

[the known]

So for the past 2-3 days we already noticed that view counters were stuck, not updating, or delayed. So we already knew a big YouTube update was coming.
Today, it looks like they released the new video player for some people.
Screenshot:

If you don't have it yet, you can get it as follows:

To change to the new design, go to a random YouTube video and navigate to this in your webbrowser:
javascript:document.cookie='VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=l4t7KpMVe9U';

To change back to the old design, go to a random YouTube video and navigate to this in your webbrowser:
javascript:document.cookie='VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=lLZRH5LuuEU';


Thoughts? What do you guys think of the new design?

 

[ripon65]

Yap bro.I face the problem from last 2 days

 

[ambushiv11]

I think it's cool also I can't wait for the unlisted 301 stupid method to eradicate!

 

[Curving]

Why can't I see it? I did what you said. I really like the look of it

 

[AdvenueAlex]

I like it, it's simple and nice.

 

[SmTasker]

It's quite nice, simple and clean, definitely an improvement.

 

[henia]

I like it too, it's modern

 

[Baraba]

That cookie changing method is bullshit. There is much easier and faster way to use the new player.

 

[lincher]

You can get it easily here (just clear cache): https://www.youtube.com/testtube

 

[Aatrox]

Really nice, elegant. I like it a lot.

 

[tubeboost]

Why can't I see it? I did what you said. I really like the look of it

YT updates itself all the time. Not all people notice it at once because YT is a distributed system and spread over dozens of data centers. It takes time to update software on all YT servers.

 

[ripon65]

Yap bro.I also was tens

 

[bankole1]

So for the past 2-3 days we already noticed that view counters were stuck, not updating, or delayed. So we already knew a big YouTube update was coming.
Today, it looks like they released the new video player for some people.
Screenshot:

If you don't have it yet, you can get it as follows:

To change to the new design, go to a random YouTube video and navigate to this in your webbrowser:
javascript:document.cookie='VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=l4t7KpMVe9U';

To change back to the old design, go to a random YouTube video and navigate to this in your webbrowser:
javascript:document.cookie='VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=lLZRH5LuuEU';


Thoughts? What do you guys think of the new design?

Thanks man. I recently just noticed the changes too.

 

[Y M C M B]

For me, the new player appears when i use mozilla and the old one when i use chrome :s

 

[karupoiss]

It looks nice and clean. I like it! The lincher method worked for me for getting the new interface.