To anyone whose YouTube page commence to look foreign today , you ’re not alone : with little fanfare , the land site pushed a change that now adapts its video player to jibe the facet ratio of your subject matter .
Until now YouTube force all videos into a 16:9 proportion by windowboxing them , meaning surround them with mordant vertical or horizontal bars like the older days of check widescreen motion-picture show on VHS . In that sense , this is n’t a immense modification — white space or else of sinister — although the location of player assure movement to equip the video recording ’s size .
This sometimes subtle and other times dramatic UX modification was n’t announce on the platform ’s official channels , and only received an easy - to - missreplyon Google ’s Product Forums from a Community Manager earlier today . The post YouTube replied to ask pleadingly : “ for some ground , today my YouTube television player sizing became huge . It looks terrible and very jarring and I want to change it back . How ? ? ? ? ? ? ”
The vista adjustment are evidently robotic , retroactive to all uploaded telecasting , and if there ’s a room to turn the feature film off in Creator Studio it ’s non - obvious .
Interestingly , the new aspect ratios also shift the stead of several key site features . Accommodations for ultra - widescreen video make description school text , channel name , and subscription buttons more large ; square of vertical ones push that entropy lower on the page . Given the necessary of hearing outgrowth to YouTuber ’s vocation it ’s possible this will become an exploitable feature .
Update 7/27/18 7:48pm : A YouTube interpreter has since clarified to Gizmodo that currently there is no way to disable this feature .
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