Google making a good change on YouTube wasn’t on my bingo card this week. I’m positively surprised.
Why was it removed in the first place?
My money is on one of either
- sorting made it too easy to skip shit content and YouTube decided they lost engagement
- it’s too confusing for normies
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Damn I’ve gotten so cynical about social media.
To bury old content on old channels.
Go to Vsauce, sort from oldest and be surprised.
So they could reintroduce it 6 months later and get cheered for doing the bare ass minimum.
I have the feeling that the only reason they’re bringing back the feature is because of their push to integrate podcasts within YouTube. It makes sense to be able to sort by oldest to newest in the context of podcast episodes.
They try really hard to test our patience. It never should have been removed 🙄🙄🙄
Exactly, Youtube never should have removed that sorting option. Such a weird thing to do that only impairs users, without benefit for Youtube or content creators (assuming you can monetize old videos).
There may be an argument that not allowing to sort by oldest makes people watch fewer old videos which means they can reduce caching server costs by moving older videos off most of the servers. Not sure how big that impact would be financially, though.
Oh wow, finally it’s back.
