Currently, public sub counts are abbreviated in most but not all places across YouTube. In August, we’ll make this more consistent by always showing abbreviated sub counts publicly. Creators: You’ll still see your full sub count in Studio! Learn more → http://yt.be/help/abbrev-count …pic.twitter.com/pmaKk4EU4k
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Replying to @TeamYouTube
why are you guys always putting your resources into changing what's been working perfectly and never fix the broken stuff???
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Replying to @rickyberwick @TeamYouTube
I think this is kind of smart, will hopefully dampen paranoia and speculation / drama and subcount fluctuations. Like horse blinders :D
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What about new channels? I'd rather see "1059" instead of "1k" until it hits "2k". Gives a better visual of your growth than just round numbers
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Replying to @MaceNanoro @basiclaser and
It won't go from 1K to 2K directly, you also see the first decimal. I liked it better when the whole counts were shown but this can get hard to read for 7+ digits counts. Abbreviating the bigger counts requires the smaller counts to be abbreviated too for the sake of consistency.
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Replying to @RagePeanut_ @basiclaser and
Okay. You missed my point. To creators EACH INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIBER is important (at least, that's ideally how I see this all working) not just "about this many" of them. That make sense?
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Replying to @MaceNanoro @basiclaser and
I know they are, I'm a creator myself, not on YouTube but same logic really. I don't like that change either. I was just stating that design-wise, that's the only logical thing to do.
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Replying to @RagePeanut_ @basiclaser and
Or have it so that on desktop, where there's more space to work with, show the full subscriber count, and shrink it on mobile? Or have a toggleble option? What do you mean "most logical"?
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Most logical as in design, you want to avoid showing the same thing in different ways across your website. But if you decide to only use full counts, the subscribe button would look really bad. Having a toggle button is a good idea but I doubt YouTube will ever go that route.
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