It is now in a grid layout and I can’t switch it to the list view. Worse, some videos are now out of order chronologically i.e. a video from 4 hours ago appears before one from 3 hours ago.
Feels like part of the continued march towards algorithmization of every last major internet service. The ultimate goal presumably being to make it easier and easier to censor things, Facebook style.
Presumably the channel RSS feeds will continue to work…
Unfortunately video hosting is one of those services that costs a lot to run so it isn’t easy to replace.
my understanding is that video files are always in their compressed state, and have been since video compression has existed. i.e. it’s always the local machine that’s decoding the file. that said modern video compression is quite impressive (e.g. the change from h264 to h265), but upgrading all of YT to state of the art codecs is a significant amount of compute, and removing older files might create compatibility issues for users on older HW.