Youtube – How to use YouTube’s old notifications pane

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This is YouTube's new notifications pane:

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It just clumps everything together in a difficult-to-read manner, and when I click on a notification to try and see the whole text it takes me away from the video I am currently watching, rather than opening in-the-frame like it used to.

Here's what it used to look like, and what it currently looks like everywhere else on google:

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How do I get the older notifications pane on YouTube?

Best Answer

YouTube is unintegrating Google+, which is why the Google+ notifications had to go. You can still access them on Google+ (or any other gcon site, really), but that will probably stop working without warning when they cut the cord for good.

You cannot switch back to Google+ notifications on YouTube itself, but what you can do is:

  1. send feedback at the bottom of any YouTube page to let them know you want in-line replies and grouping and such back
  2. use addons/extensions like Tubebuddy, which emulate certain features more or less well.
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