As of January 10th, 2025, YouTube seems to have broken how the youtube chat box works with theater mode in the newest update.
I will try to update this script to make to patch it temporarily, but this should never have happened
Who thought it's a good idea that the video element to should be scaled up and be hidden behind that chat box THEN PUSH THE UPDATE TO LIVE!?!?!
Description:
This script aims to improve the theater mode on YouTube as the default theater UX is atrocious. The goal is to copy the nicer design ideas from Twitch.tv while still maintaining YouTube's unique UI features.
This script relies minimally on setTimeouts and instead replies mostly on event listener, making it resonably performant. Design-wise I would like to think this is a reasonable compromise between the Twitch design and the current YouTube design, which should, and I hope, would maintain better compatibility with YouTube even without constant updating.
While I concur that adding to and moving parts of the YouTube layout would be very nice for this script, those would be (hopefully) added gradually.
Features:
- Extends the video player to the bottom of the screen in theater mode.
- Extends the chat area all the way to the top in theater mode.
- Minor UI tweaks.
- Allows the user to only have the user to have the script only activate for livestreams and VODs.
- Allows the user to seperately toggle the styles applied to the video player and the chat.
- Allows the user to blacklist individual videos from triggering the script.
Notes:
- v1.0 would still be recommended if one wishes to use the minimal verson of this script. That version is extremely light and very resistant to breaking but will lack the minor UI tweaks and the fancier features that got added in the later versions.
Compatibility Status:
Compatibility with various devices and browsers has yet to be tested explicitly.
(Updated 2025/1/9)