Social Views: Everything You Need To Know About The New Experimental YouTube Homepage

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Everything You Need To Know About The New Experimental YouTube Homepage

If you’ve logged onto YouTube over the last couple of days then you may have noticed that there was a button at the top of the screen asking, “Wanna try a different YouTube homepage?” Following in the footsteps of Facebook, YouTube is changing up their user experience with a brand spankin’ new feed-centric homepage. Now you can be an old curmudgeon and just keep on using the original homepage until YouTube makes it mysteriously disappear one night, or you can learn about how the new YouTube homepage is set up. I think you’ll find that it’s actually pretty great.

Before I get into the specifics of how the new experimental YouTube homepage is set up, I’d just like to say that personally I found the old homepage to be a complete waste of time. It never had any content I found truly interesting or relevant, aside from maybe the activities of the YouTubers I subscribe to. The new homepage changes all that with interactivity, list, feeds and more. You can start using the new homepage by opting in here, or from your own homepage, to follow along as we go through the features.