YouTube does it again

If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

Yep.. I just ran into a solid wall of crap earlier today when trying to comment. They forced G+ on me while simultaneously removing all my subscriptions. I get it if their goal is to prevent spamming and trolls and whatnot, but there has to be a better way than forcing your garbage social network onto people. I eventually figured out how to get my subscriptions back but I have no way of removing the forced G+ account. -_- I wish companies would stop forcing their separate products(that are virtually unrelated other than being owned by said company)onto people.

Google is taking over the internet.

ditto.
Main thing for me and all of Google's new features (Gmail's getting just as annoying) is their need to show a pop-up to explain the new thing. If they have to do that, it's not a smooth integration, and they shouldn't do it. Or do it better, such that no one would ever need the new feature explained.

The comment section is just terrible now. There is no word cap! Take a look at the comments in this roosterteeth vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeMO9WseFck

People are posting the top comment from this vid on lots of vids now.

I dont know what happened but there are two account of me on youtube on same email. Whenever i login it ask me to login as my alias or my full name. Funny thing is their subscriptions aren't even synced

And yup the new comment section is Shit!! Why on Earth they wanted to change the thing that was working perfectly? If you wanna work work on dash playback and try to make it better!! That shit just buffers again whenever i seek (using youtube center to prevent dash playback though. It's awesome!).

I'm also getting the google+ hell on youtube - I don't want no f**** g+ ever!

Youtube hasn't partnered with google, it has been owned by google for quite some time now.

But I agree, they're forcing G+ into people that don't want to use it at all. I'm one of those people, I hate these stupid social websites, the only reason I have a FB account is for ease of access in some other websites that let me log with FB but that's about it, I don't use FB at all nor am I willing to use G+.

I don't think forcing me into it just because I use youtube regularly is good practice, and I was fine with them asking me to do it every few days, but now they just don't let you comment at all unless you have a G+ account linked to the youtube account. That's not optional anymore, and I really hope this gets enough of an uproar that they revise their choices and pull this stupid decision back.

I'd quit youtube if I could for this stupid move, but let's be honest, they almost monopolize the market... No other video websites reach Youtube's knees, so they can do whatever they want with it and get away with it... which annoys me greatly =\

I have a G+ account but I never use it for anything. I just created it when G+ came about just to see what it was all like. I HATE GETTING HECKLED BY YOUTUBE TO LINK THE TWO ACCOUNTS. I HATE BEING ASKED REPEATEDLY TO ENTER MY FULL NAME. I'm not an avid YouTuber at all and I've uploaded maybe 10 videos in my time, mostly just projects I've been working on to share privately with others. But I like to be logged in because I favourite a lot of videos and go back to them later. It's a pain in the ass and once you say no they should stop asking.

I can't see any comments on any youtube video...Well, no comments is not that bad ^_^

Google's push to have everyone "plugged-in" 24 hours/day started years ago, but apparently you've just now noticed it. Ultimately, the goal is to have everyone tied into a vast, global network so that, at any given moment, those in charge of the system may pull up where you are, what you're doing, and every bit of personal information there is to know about you. One world, one government, one monetary system, all controlled by one global bank. Isn't the idea just peachy?

1984 has come and gone, but the plot remains very much alive.

WOW, wasn't aware they started to force this bs now.

Yeah, I don't like the kinda meta-online community thing google's got going on right now. It irritates the crap out of me.

yeah whats going on with the comments on youtube now? its forcing me to basically join google plus.. so sad

all this "social media/network" crap right now, reminds me of the "reality tv" spam a decade ago.
ironically neither are social, nor reality, respectively.

I really irritated by Google+ as well. It's a clumsy attempt at trying to compete with Facebook and ends up ruining Youtube in the process. When I visit Youtube, I want to watch videos, not make friends.

I would absolutely LOVE to complain about the comment section, but as of now there doesn't appear to be one for me anymore! I saw some popup talking about the new comment section... but there is none? Thanks for breaking one of the most important things about youtube, google... Now fuck having conversations with people since I cannot even see them.

Literally every facet of this Google+ integration is terrible, openly inferior to the way it used to be. If someone leaves a comment on one of my videos, they're not even going to put the notification in my YouTube inbox anymore, they're going to send it as a Google+ note. Ugh. I thought all of the idiotic site makeovers they'd done over the years were bad, but this? This is awful.

If I wouldn't need to change from gmail address on every freaking page in existence I would just leave google now...

I hate youtube updates... why are they changing things that works I will never know... but I stopped reading your post after "You are all probably aware that YouTube has partnered with Google"...

Wtf? So first, it shows me a comment from 13 hours ago. That comment was a reply to some comment, but it doesn't show that comment, then it shows me a comment 12 hours ago, and then it shows me a top comment with its replies. Then it shows a comment 17 hours ago, a comment 16 hours ago(and its replies) etc. What the actual fuck is going on here?

The worst thing, that Google and Youtube (or only one of them) doesn't care about the users' reactions/feedbacks at all. Why? Because they CAN do it. They always f***s up their things, making youtube more and more user-unfriendlier, and no one can do anything against it... why? Because they CAN do it.
I don't think, that there are human workers there. When we complain, they always just send freakin' automatic FAQ things.

Slight overreaction, yeah. And Youtube belongs to Google. And the only "redesign" it needed is an option to disable autoplay.

I have spoken. :)

Looks the same to me, the only change I've seen were the comments, now there's a button where you can change the order of the comments - top comments or most recent. And if you want to keep your old youtube name you can, I've kept mine and now it's like I have 2 yt channels, 1 with the old name, 1 with my full name (which I don't use). Click on the yt profile pic (top right corner) and the on change account to see the names.

every time there's an update, youtube gets worse.. you think that next time they can't screw up things more than they currently are, but every time they surprise you, cause they actually manage to get things worse..
really astonishing..

btw, another thing that pisses me off that OP didn't mention: commenting on people's channels.. I just gave it up after few tries (I used to 'personally' thank my subscribers), but that G+ thing is interfering even with that and I really can't post anything
so, if you subscribe to my channel (I'm not telling you to do it, just in case..), let me say that I thank you for that.. :D