[Bug]: Ugly UI/UX degradation

[Flashwalker]

Guidelines

• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• I have encountered this bug in the official downloads of FreeTube.
• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

In the last night releases 1-column playlists was implemented instead of a single favorites/bookmarks grid list.

When favorites were in the form of a bookmark grid list, recently added videos were at the top of the list, and if you scroll all the way down, you can access the oldest ones.

Now if you have a lot of videos in your playlist, it's close to impossible to access the oldest ones.
Watch video:

Vx128.mp4

Functionality is literally broken.

Recent nightly releases have added a button at the bottom of the playlist, increasing the clicks hell UI/UX.

Expected Behavior

Please make it so that the user can choose between the current ugly UI/UX and the previous one. So that the user can simply switch any bookmarks playlist to a grid view where recently added videos are placed at the top.

Issue Labels

usability issue

FreeTube Version

v0.19.1-nightly-4047 beta

Operating System Version

Ubuntu 22.04

Installation Method

.deb

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

0.18.0-nightly-3004

Additional Information

No response

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Nightly builds means that they are the latest changes from our development branch. That means we are still developing. We wont go back to a single bookmark page view. However we will implement grid view for playlist at a later point in time. This is already documented elsewhere.

Closing as this isnt a bug and grid view is already documented.

[Flashwalker]

Nightly builds means that they are the latest changes from our development branch. That means we are still developing. We wont go back to a single bookmark page view. However we will implement grid view for playlist at a later point in time. This is already documented elsewhere.

Closing as this isnt a bug and grid view is already documented.

I did this

in a couple minutes. It was that easy

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

@Flashwalker Do you want to create a pull request for it?

[absidue]

Recent nightly releases have added a button at the bottom of the playlist, increasing the clicks hell UI/UX.

That was added to avoid FreeTube freezing completely for 15 seconds when you open a playlist, so while you may not like it the alternative is horrible performance problems.

[absidue]

@Janaue

I concur with OP. I have 900 videos in the legacy playlist so the official display which is vertical is just unusable lol.

If you are struggling to find your videos in a 900 video list, may I recommend using the search instead of scrolling through all of the videos looking for them manually.

The legacy UI was perfect for the playlist.

The old UI was objectively worse, if you want the worse UI with less functionality, you are welcome to downgrade to 0.19.2 instead of using pre-release versions of FreeTube.

[Flashwalker]

Do you want to create a pull request for it?

I can, it's just a few css flex declarations.
But you already have the proper grid layout from the old UI, so why not just reuse it?

[Flashwalker]

Just updated,
Thanx for adding sorting to the list

[Flashwalker]

Thnx for grid view 👍️