Extension buttons cut off content

[p0358]

Download button cuts off video titles

With addon:

Without:

It's quite annoying, because creators create their titles to be displayed under regular YT apps to be comprehensible, and when they're cut off more, it doesn't make sense as you often don't even know what the video is about anymore.

The issue is there's a download button from TA there, and it sits there on the right with opacity: 0. So the solution is to either have it do display: none instead of opacity: 0, or to do something like position: absolute; right: 2rem;, which would then look like this:

Or even position: aboslute; right: 0; top: 3rem; (in this case the button should be shown on hover over whole card and not just title though):

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In general though I find these buttons pretty questionable. I think each of them should be configurable, on whether they should be shown at all. The reason is that a lot of people would have used this extension in the first place to just sync their cookies, and anything beyond that was just an extra (personally I had to disable cookie syncing as it was breaking yt-dlp lately, which now makes me question if I even need this extension enabled at all currently xd)

Subscribe/download combo cuts off channel name

Almost equally bad. What channel am I even watching?

This happens because YouTube sets their responsive layout with the assumption that only the buttons they put there would be there, and even they themselves would have often gotten it wrong and caused things to get cut off, hilariously. But with an extra wide button, any issues with this layout are only amplified sadly (under certain screen widths...).

I think in this case it'd be better to make the button much tinier, preferably just a tiny button with TA logo, that'd show dropdown with these options. And to "Subscribe" and "Download", there could be one named something like "Open in TA instance" added, to show the video if it's already there.

[bbilly1]

Looks like you know what to do, please go ahead.

Overlaying the video download button over the title might work, you'd have to try and see how this work throughout the interface. The screenshot with the button under the title looks out of place though...

The cookie thing, there is already an issue open of what can be fixed from our side. Another problem is YT is revoking tokens server side if a cookie gets used outside of a browser context. I've thought of removing cookie functionality alltogether, but it still seems to be working for some, hence just the big fat warning in the docs instead.

Subscribe/download button, YT has been changing things around, that has worked better before as YT would treat it as an internal button and adopt the interface, not anymore it looks like. But still, most people will have 1080p+ screens, so that shouldn't apply to them.

Looking forward to your PRs improving things here.

Going forward, please avoid words like "annoying", "hilarious", "bad". These are not nice words to use when talking about open source projects.

[p0358]

Going forward, please avoid words like "annoying", "hilarious", "bad". These are not nice words to use when talking about open source projects.

Sorry, didn't mean to sound rude. Though to clarify, I used "hilarious" only in the context of mocking YouTube itself, because they had such issue in the stock interface too, in some channels that had too many buttons, like those where you can buy channel-specific subscription and other stuff (and in those cases you'd see channel name like that even on big screen (with the addon more often too in turn))

I'll see what I can do tomorrow

[ewoks]

@p0358 did you make any progress on this?

[p0358]

@ewoks apologies, I didn't get around to do it apart from tinkering with the CSS :/ If the current buttons are broken like in #51 and need to be re-done, I could only put the suggestion to put it under the buttons that appear on hover (under add to Watch Later and add to list), I think this would make them the most intuitive and least disruptive. Plus making the subscribe button less wide. But ideally both's presence should be configurable with some toggle in plugin settings... (say if someone wants to use the plugin just for cookie sync)

[ewoks]

closed my ticket, as they rreappeared , guess I was part of YT beta testing til yesterday :/

[ewoks]

on the other note, I would not mind even if button appears just when I hower over thumbnail image in it's upper left corner;
I mean even in front of the video title, I don't mind, just that we have some anchor that it will likely not change with next beta testing