@Potatoguy  
Hindsight sucks huh? Blip was owned by Maker, which has a bunch of nasty rumors, but then Maker was bought by Disney and it pretty much went downhill from there.

Oh and Zippcast is planning a monetization system too.

Probably worth noting that Wenoo and vStreamers were reportedly voluntary shutdowns while Zippcast had server issues.

Wenoo sucks and the current owner is the same one that drove vStreamers into the ground and apparently got Wenoo shut down in the past. Zippcast was off to a rocky start in the past but it’s going quite strongly right now. They just need to implement the new video player (which they will do after they implement the new site core that they built from scratch) and it’ll be far superior to Wenoo.

@ReloggingUser  
Shut down in 2011.

Too bad Blip, where Doug Walker, the Nostalgia Critic, put his reviews, isn’t include here.

Whatever happened to Livevideo?

@Pryson  
True that

Dailymotion. Although it doesn’t have a lot of comments floating around, you can still find some porn around.

In this day and age I used to believe screamers were a thing of the past and could easily be avoided.
 
After clicking that link that looked like the “Expand This Comment” or whatever it was, I never touch anything in the comments. And when I hear that viruses lurk in there too…well…

Try the feather beta to avoid comments altogether.

there’s a petition on change.org to change back at least the comment section of youtube, it has 95,972 as of right now:  
https://www.change.org/petitions/google-change-the-youtube-comment-section-back-to-its-original-form

The real reason behind it was not to prevent spam, but to shoehorn their shitty products instead of admitting they are failures and cancelling them.
 
Google+ is a facebook clone that was deployed at the very moment sites like Facebook started to lose momentum. They thought people just wanted a different site to mingle, but the fact is that social networking has changed now. It’s no longer about having profile pages or ‘staying connected’ through a single website.
 
People have smart phones now; they have Skype and IM right in their palms - simple programs that instantly and directly connect friends together. The myspace/facebook age was built around people not having that. It was built on the notion that internet devices would always need a wired connection and that IM services and Skype would remain an obscurity too complicated and potentially costly for the majority to use. But now that people have a camera, microphone, and screen in the palm of their hand, and the coverage of wi-fi and 3/4G tech at their disposal, virtually every barrier has been removed from the majority.
 
All a smartphone needs is an app to become a central, organised hub of global communication. We don’t need websites to talk around the world as much now. We don’t need social networking sites so desperately in order to stay in touch with everyone we know.
 
Everything Google has done to YouTube was done because they’re too fucking pig-headed to realise that their market strategy is outdated. They’d rather destroy a functional service than admit that their venture into social networking has failed.

@HeroInferno  
And to think, google’s excuse for this crap was to PREVENT trolling and spam.

@HeroInferno  
Yeah.

@SeraphimDawn  
It’s googles equivilent of the Xbox One.

@HeroInferno  
I almost never comment myself…. But for some reason, I find this rather hilarious on how much Google f-ed up.

@SeraphimDawn  
Yeah, some of the people I’ve subbed to on You Tube are disabling comments on their videos because people are linking to viruses and screamers now. You Tube comments have now gone to being generally bad to down right dangerous.

@AwkwardLuna  
Since there are no character limits anymore, people can post big ass links that clutters the comment section, links that lead to nowhere or worse…

@SeraphimDawn  
I don’t think you can properly embed anything but from what I’ve seen full links are allowed now.

My biggest problem with the idea of a move, is that the content creators I enjoy are not on those services, and for them to move across to another service would probably be suicide for their subscriber base. Not to mention they get paid the most ad revenue with Youtube, to my knowledge.

You can’t vote comments anymore ‘less you’re on G+

@Ripple_Shine  
Yeah… trolls have been reported spamming entire novels and encyclopedias in comments. PETA videos are being spammed with cook books, And some guy posted the entire Old Testament from the Bible in one video.
 
Can you embed videos in comments now? If so, then trolling just got more interesting.

@Background Pony #A4EF  
On the upside, they finally got rid of that pain-in-the-ass 500 character limit. :\

Weeno has the classic youtube format.
 
Dailymotion is dependable.
 
Vimeo is artsy and cool.
 
Whatever happens, let’s see where the exodus goes.
 
Youtube might end up dead like myspace, but if everyone still clings to youtube, then Google will continue to do us anally. Lose Lose situation folks.
 
Bada-bing.