Massive youtube preview thumbnails

[saor]

Dafuq? This is on Chrome & Firefox.

 

[saor]

Some solutions. Ublock code did it for me. Youtube idiots making you need to get 3rd party solutions to a problem that doesn't need to exist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1fkkcn1/youtube_desktop_only_displaying_three_videos_per

 

[RedViking]

That weaver beats thumbnail is nauseating. Gross.

 

[HAL 9000]

I got YT to display 4 thumbnails per row on Chrome by decreasing the zoom from 110% (my default) to 90% - text is still legible for reading... this is on a Samsung FHD 1920 x 1080p 24" PC monitor.

 

[HAL 9000]

Also - if you have installed the UWP Chrome app for YT instead of using your browser, you will need to use the CTRL+mouse wheel down shortcut to reduce the zoom until you also get 4 thumbnails per row as well.

 

[HAL 9000]

Something in the code for loading YouTube has been changed within the last week or so - I just saw this happening as I opened YouTube in Chrome on my Windows 11 PC - after I changed the zoom back to 110% (my default setting) to see if there was any update or change from them...

It displays the blank frames for FOUR thumbnails for a few seconds as YouTube opens up - then it suddenly changes as the actual thumbnails load up & shows only the THREE large thumbnails per row.

 

[FiestaST]

I'm seeing the standard 4 thumbnails per row.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

I saw it this evening. From getting around 15 combined videos and shorts per screen, to getting three videos and five shorts per screen at FHD. Even increasing to 1440p only increases each by one. Thumbnails are literally bigger than my phone.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Oh, I want more people to post their thumbnail concerns. It is an interesting issue to see.

 

[FiestaST]

The constipated-look thumbnails are far worse.

 

[Fulcrum29]

The constipated-look thumbnails are far worse.

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I must say, I am not attracted to it, though studies say otherwise. For someone who has touched base with consumer psychology, I think they are trolling their clients. Then again, my psyche is strange. I am most certainly not the norm.

I can't disagree with the studies. I will agree to disagree.

 

[Sundancer]

The super large thumbnails started for me on Monday. Still hating it!

 

[w1z4rd]

I guess you can add a 4th thumbnail if you control+- a couple of times

 

[HAL 9000]

I guess you can add a 4th thumbnail if you control+- a couple of times

Yup - with both the Chrome browser & the Windows UWP for YT, decreasing the zoom allows 4 thumbnails to be displayed , but with the trade-off that the text is also made smaller as well... you win some, you lose some...

 

[SauRoNZA]

Just YouTube doing stupid YouTube things like nobody QA’d anything.

The more ridiculous recent change is sorting all Subscriptions alphabetically instead of recent usage making it utterly useless to me now.

 

[My_King]

The constipated-look thumbnails are far worse.

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You search 1, 1 god damn topic....

 

[B-1]

Seems to be a common trend. Netflix did the same where you can only see a few posters at a time even if you have a 4k 65inch+ TV.

Doesn't make any sense.

 

[netstrider]

If you click the menu button top-left, you will get four thumbnails and YT seems to remember that the next time you load the page.

 

[RedViking]

I saw it this evening. From getting around 15 combined videos and shorts per screen, to getting three videos and five shorts per screen at FHD. Even increasing to 1440p only increases each by one. Thumbnails are literally bigger than my phone.

Shorts are from the devil.

 

[RedViking]

The constipated-look thumbnails are far worse.

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Pathetic.