Ask HN: Is YouTube hiding publish dates?

Posted by vanillaicesquad on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I can't find the date of a published video anymore in youtube, or it's difficult (and wasn't before).

I thought it might be an extension[0], but its happening on chrome on my laptop too.

[0]: I had an idea to create an extension that hides every number >4 on the web, so that i am not bothered with "gamification".. but its not that

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Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube hiding publish dates? by slater on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:08PM (#32159156)

I thought the same thing the other week, but noticed it disappears when there's not enough space to show it? Try maximizing browser, reducing font size, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube hiding publish dates? by vanillaicesquad on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:17PM (#32159232)

Yes, i am using big screens lately and the responsive css9 seems to be broken.. like a bad update?

Because it's the first time it's happened.

TLDR Change resolution / screen size

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Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube hiding publish dates? by vanillaicesquad on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:29PM (#32159318)

Sorry, i mean it's not broken. The only problem with the css is that you cannot see the publish date of a video, but everything else is fine

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Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube hiding publish dates? by ksaj on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:29PM (#32160641)

I see the short date info (3 years ago) on thumbnails and the full date under the video page's title and right after the number of views.

Maybe something on YouTube got updated, and you were seeing some cached bit of code that didn't jibe right.

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Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube hiding publish dates? by hansword on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:12AM (#32162073)

I had the same problem, was a size cutoff caused by me setting the scaling to 200% or something. Once I reset scaling, date is back.

Hope it is that easy for you, and it isn't a bigger problem.

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Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube hiding publish dates? by vanillaicesquad on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:56AM (#32165848)

Yes! Screen resolution on new Windows laptops is 150%.

This gave me trouble on my last job, a jira extension didn't work at 150%

(HAHAHAHAHA Jira.. i know)

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Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube hiding publish dates? by matt3210 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:36PM (#32159379)

*sadface* Publish date is important for educational videos especially in development!

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Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube hiding publish dates? by vanillaicesquad on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:44PM (#32159451)

Yes, many times youtube redirects you to old videos. So i don't think they will fix it

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