Small issue: Everything below video window acts as if video window is wider (Chrome)

[megascorcher]

Until the 509 update, everything below the video window (comments and suggested videos) conformed to the width of the video window. Funnily, even though I rolled back to 507, it stayed this way. :(

[Zarggg]

You might be in "Theater Mode." The control that toggles that mode is the second-to-last button on the control bar (just before the full screen button). YTC also uses it to toggle between different player sizes when that option is activated.

If you click that button, does the player layout return to what you expect?

[Yonezpt]

It's a new YouTube change (either a bug or intentional), nothing to do with YTC. Disable YTC and you will see that the "issue" persists.

[megascorcher]

Zarggg, afraid not. That doesn't affect the width of anything but my video window.

Yonezpt, that's what I was fearing. Why the hell do they have to change things constantly?

[Yonezpt]

@megascorcher They have to, they have to constantly continue improving their website -even if some changes are not welcomed or bugs appear during the process- otherwise we would still have this today:

Which some users might appreciate the nostalgia, but overall the majority would have moved to other marginally better services and YouTube wouldn't have survived much longer.

I suspect that these recent constant changes might calm down once they are done with their shift to a mobile-like overall design, which I suspect that it is what they are doing to reduce costs related to having multiple different layouts for different platforms. Having just one layout that fits all devices will decrease maintenance costs by a large margin which will end up increasing their profit margin, which hasn't been acceptable for the past years: http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/26/youtube-no-profit/

That's also why they removed the playlist autoplay function and introduced the autoplay up-next feature, the more videos you watch, the more ads they publish, the more revenue they make. Expect these changes to not stop here.

[Yonezpt]

@Aphoristic That's a different issue than the one that was posted here, it would be better if you create a new issue for your specific problem.

[1112e]

Yea I've had this same issue, it seems to go back and forth

[SuperSajuuk]

@Yonezpt And of course, we wouldn't have nice features like being able to playback @ 1080p, 2k, 4k and 60fps uploads. A lot of Google's changes are indeed annoying, but without Google, we would probably still be dealing with 480p as the highest quality :D

[eduardog3000]

(Temporary?) solution is to add this to Stylish.

#page.watch .content-alignment {
    max-width: 1066px;
}

#player-playlist .watch-playlist {
    left: 650px;
}

#watch7-sidebar {
    margin-left: 650px;
}

#watch7-content {
    width: 640px;
}