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Layla 🏳️‍⚧️
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trans rights = human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

she/her // Say NO to generative AI.

I make lists to block A/I slop for good.

Search engines first, soon for YouTube (+shorts)

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Also, is it just me or would the playback controls look so much better if the slider was on the bottom instead of on top?
An edited image of the YouTube playback controls where the playback slider/scrubber is below the playback controls instead of above. This makes it a lot less cluttered in my opinion.
July 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
laylavish.bsky.social
Rant time: Can we talk about how bad the new YouTube playback redesign is? It doesn't make sense to have THIS much padding for desktop. For mobile, this type of padding is acceptable/expected. But we're on desktop and we use mice, which are precise; this means large amounts of padding aren't needed.
An image showing a comparison between the old YouTube playback controls vs the new redesign. The first image on the left shows a screenshot of a video by the YouTuber Lavendertowne, along with the soon-to-be-replaced playback controls. To the right side of the image a red arrow points to the new redesign image on the right. The image on the right shows the new playback controls. The point of comparison here is the amount of unnecessary extra padding added compared to the original. The reason why it's unnecessary is because the aforementioned screenshots show the YouTube desktop interface, meaning that the user likely has access to a mouse peripheral. The new large playback controls along with extra padding work well in a mobile computing scenario, where the user doesn't have complete precise control of where they are tapping; these larger buttons and padding changes help alleviate mis-taps in that scenario. However since the mouse is an extremely precise peripheral, padding to this extent is not needed since it's unlikely to accidentally mis-click on a playback control, making these new changes nonsensical. These new controls also happen to take up more screen real-estate compared to the old slimmer controls. However, a silver lining to this new change is that readability of some labels are improved compared to it's old counterpart, especially the timecode labels. The old gradient in the previous playback controls didn't do enough to make the labels legible in multiple scenarios, whereas the new glassmorphism-like backgrounds along with the boldness of the current timecode label help alleviate some of those issues. The background of the entire image is a white background with a subtle vignette overlayed on top of it, with both images casting a gray drop shadow at a fourty-five degree angle on to the backdrop.
July 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
laylavish.bsky.social
It is genuinely crazy that you can save YouTube with just FOUR lines of regular expression in BlockTube.

4 lines.

No more reaction garbage or drama anymore, feels like such a breath of fresh air.
Blocktube interface that has the following options: Video title, Channel name, Video ID, and Channel ID. The option "Video title" is selected. Layla has written 4 lines of regular expressions. The first line is: /i watched | react(s|ing)/i The second line is: /asmongold/i The third line is: /situation/i The fourth and final line is: /crazy/i
January 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM