Within the last couple days or so, Youtube pushed a new version of their android app to my phone that seems to have a bug in it.
The bug manifests when I’m using my account that has a large number of my own created playlists, each with thousands of videos in them. Because I have so many playlists, I can’t see them all at once on the same screen when I’m choosing which playlist(s) to add or remove a video. I have to scroll the checkboxes up and down to change and/or verify which ones are checked.
The new stupid thing the app is doing, is when I have made changes to checkboxes, either flipping them on or off, then I scroll those changed boxes out of the window to check/change others, the app “forgets” those changes when I scroll it back, and they have apparently reverted to their former values. It’s not actually doing that, though. Whenever I change a checkbox, it immediately sends that flip off to the server, but due to lag it can take significant time to actually see the requested changes to my playlists happen.
The lag might be due to my large number of playlists, the large number of items on them, or both. The lag has been there for some time now and I’ve learned to live with that part, but this new unsetting of my checkboxes is way more annoying. I get the same lag when using the web desktop version, btw, but so far they have not “improved” the web version in this way, yet.
I think, no matter whether there is client-server lag going on, it should not stop displaying the changes I just tried to make when they happen to have gone off the screen for a bit… or am I wrong to be thinking that?
Could anyone else who uses the Youtube android app in a similar way, with enough playlists to require scrolling, please test and see if they get this same new behavior? Or you can just create a bunch of temporary playlists if you don’t have that many already. I think Youtube does A/B testing and doesn’t push new versions of the app out to everybody at once, so YMMV. If you see this stupid behavior, please also send feedback, so I don’t look like a lone crank who doesn’t appreciate their “improvements.”