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I don't like this new feature.
I understand this is for discovery but it is done at the detriment of the whole experience.
Loading the app opens an auto play stream which is jarring if you forget where your volume is at. Selecting a stream does open the usual stream window with chat. If you try navigating away to your followed channels then the steam goes into Picture in Picture mode. But to go to your followed channels, you have to go through the feed page to push the now annoyingly out of reach followed channels button. Going through the feed page pauses your Picture in Picture mode because there is a stream auto playing in the feed.
This makes it miserable to look at a stream on the feed page to check it out then go check your followed channels to see who is online. You end up playing a pause/unpause dance with the current stream you are watching.
By all means, keep feeds but please don't make it the default. YouTube has shorts but you need to click the tab for it. If you leave the app with shorts playing then you are taken back to shorts when you open the app. Why not do this instead? If someone wants to stick it out in feeds then let them hang out there when they come back.
Give me a landing page with no auto play (or muted auto play based on scroll position), some suggested streamers and more importantly, a simple and easy way to go to my followed channels please! It'd be nice if that was a button on the bottom nav var too!
I do think a recommended channels section with auto play based on scroll position would be way better than a feed. Add the features from feed to it like "don't recommend channel" and stuff to tailor it. Almost like the home page to YouTube on mobile. That's a way nicer experience than a feed.