Greasemonkey Script Brings Old Sorting Features To New YouTube Design

YouTube officially launched a redesigned site earlier this month with a newfound emphasis on subscriptions. But in addition to a new look for video pages, redesigned navigation and a guide interface across platforms, YouTube also did away with some of the old video search sorting options. In the updated site you can no longer sort by view count, relevance, upload date or rating. A new Greasemonkey script restores these sorting options.

YouTube officially launched a redesigned site earlier this month with a newfound emphasis on subscriptions.  But in addition to a new look for video pages, redesigned navigation and a guide interface across platforms, YouTube also did away with some of the old video search sorting options.  In the updated site you can no longer sort by view count, relevance, upload date or rating.  A new Greasemonkey script restores these sorting options.

YouTube Legacy Sort Options “brings back the old YouTube search/sort options on the video filters, which were removed from YouTube with the new design in December 2012. 

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