Constant Limit

I know that YouTube just updated recently so that the interface for the video was changed. It seems like viewing comments for your videos is still a hassle and the recently update did nothing to make it easier. When I check my e-mail to view my account activity for YouTube. I still receive the same e-mails that force me to click on a link that will take me to my video comment.

I am sure many of you receive e-mails similar to the following:

This is a typical e-mail that lets me know that someone commented on my video. Instead of just adding the actual comment to the e-mail, I have to click on that link that says “go to the comments”. What makes matters even worse is that I have to scan through the “time stamps” for all the comments of the video and find the one that was just posted recently. I find this to be too troublesome. Just put the actual comment in the e-mail.

Just More Hits

Come on now, how hard can it be? From the e-mail that I received I can tell that the e-mail was able to tell me the user who posted the comment and what video the comment is for. So why not just put the actual comment in the e-mail also? Why is there such a great need to get a couple few more hits out of me when I click on that link? YouTube already has the monopoly on online video so what will a few more pointless hits from this hassle do? Yes I know, it is all about the hits but I do not want to click on every single video just to view the comments. A site as large as YouTube has enough traffic already. How about we spend some time on creating a better user experience via cutting down on some unnecessary clicks?

Just Modify the SQL Query

The video comments are stored in a database so I know that all it takes is to extract the video comment out of it. Maybe something like SQL can do the trick? The query that retrieve the current information for the e-mail has to be modified to so that it gets the comment out also.

Something like:

SELECT user_name, video_title, video_comment FROM video_comments WHERE …

So you need to know the database structure, granted. But I know that this is just a simple thing to add.

Just Do It

Make things easier already and add the comment itself to the e-mail. I do not see the purpose of having to click on every single video individually and then scanning the time stamps to find it. Does anyone else find this to be a hassle. If you do or have any other comments, feel free to post them.