I like when the audible narration follows along with your internal voice. Though, I'm not quite sure my first instinct would have been to take a header into the underbrush. But who knows!

... and the next step:
http://unsere-schoene-grenze.de/

The picture in the header is how 17 dead refugees were "presented" in the press. The following pictures were taken three days later and supposedly show how they were stored after the photo op.

Last but not least, a set of impressions of the border fences in Southern Europe...

FYI, while on the video, hover over your username in the header for options related to the video, such as edit.

Go to 'my videosift' in the top header. Account preferences. Then profile.

On the top header where it says your sift name. Put your mouse on your name and a drop down menu will reveal itself. You can edit there. If you need more help let me know

Also at the bottom of the page you can opt out of the new design

If you mouse over your name on the header bar (vs6) it will drop down an edit your video button.
http://i.imgur.com/fTRq90B.png

The playlist has returned and is in the page header on the new video permalink page.

That is all.

I opted back in and did a "standard sift watching session" for me of a few videos.

This time I forced myself to actually look for things that I noticed weren't in the places that I was expecting.

Some more thoughts:

I tried to figure out where to see "who voted for this video", currently under the comment entry box. I can't find that information in beta UI. I must admit that the current location isn't particularly logical, but I know to look for it there and I can't find it at all in the beta.


The "sidebar" content changed from Sift of the Week / Comment of the Moment / Leaderboard List (of whatever section you are currently in; Top New Videos, Top Videos Expiring Soon, etc.) to Suggested Videos and Related Videos. I think the old sidebar content was more likely to be relevant to what I want.

I get that that stuff has been moved into the header menus, but in my opinion it is harder to access there:
For beta - mouse to Watch button/menu, hover, mouse to relevant section like Top New Videos, mouse to which one I want
Old - mouse to what I want in the sidebar, which is probably already visible but not taking up TOO much screen real estate, and if it isn't visible it is a quick mousewheel jump away

In the meantime, the new sidebar makes stuff that I personally don't care about at all BIGGER. I don't understand what/who suggests the "Suggested Videos" and by what criteria they are deemed to be of interest to me, and "Relevant Videos" are mostly relevant in a long-timescale sense (ie., stuff from a single video series, containing same/similar tags, etc.) where on the sift a big part of the appeal is to vote on what is hot NOW. But those two things take up more space than the old sidebar that was filled with stuff that I *did* care about; they are now big thumbnails with a title underneath plus lots of spacing between list items compared to small thumbnail with title *beside* and very minimal extra padding/spacing between list items. So, the new sidebar has stuff I don't want to see, and spaces it out so that I have to scroll the mousewheel a lot more to get through it (even though it has fewer total list items than before!).


A big part of my personal enjoyment and engagement with the sift is video comments. I'm not a big fan of the beta font for comments, but I think I could potentially get used to it. But more important than the font is that it seems like each comment gets less total screen real estate, and there is more padding/space between each comment AND the sidebar.

I'd like to see that spacing/pad cut down to more like the old style. Beyond that, I figure it is safe to assume that you're not interested in bringing the old sidebar content back (Sift of the Week / Comment of the Moment / Top X Videos) from its beta location in the menubar. Assuming that that will stay there, I'd *much* rather see comment boxes that take up the majority of the page width with NO sidebar. Old sidebar and old style comments would be my personal choice, but assuming that isn't going to happen, I just feel like the beta sidebar is unnecessary and massively oversized / overspaced.


So, I gave it another shot ... back to opting out for me for now.

Grr, yes you can.

Hover over the little picture of the red ant that reads "ant" next to it in your header bar.

In the header menu under your name is where it is found.

So today i checked out a brand new viral video site and realized one of the first things i wanted to do was search. Im always using search on reddit and yt. I really think its a necessity to have a search bar or icon permanently on the the top header and not in the sub menu. Especially for newer members who haven't figured out exactly how to get around the site. Search is always a go to i find when i visit a video site for the first time. I know what im getting when i do a search opposed to unfamiliar menus.

@eric3579 - That's the first mention of playlists, which tells me the feature isn't being missed very much.

I think I may make all the other ancillary pages accessible via the member tab. (There's currently nothing there except your account preferences.)

FYI - If someone takes a look at the chat messages in the header siftbot will now note that fact within the lounge chat log.

Also the count of current chatters will get updated periodically, so if you're on a page for a while without reloading, the chat user count will continue to get updated.

Bookmarking has been restored via a pretty heart top-right in the page header.

Only on the front page? I assume the header and sub menu will be exactly the same for all pages. Correct me if im wrong @lucky760

Video view count, length, and NSFW/Short/Long/Blocked flags now available top-right in the page header.