Is YouTube playing a prank on its users? Or did someone in their technical department just screw up and they finally realized it?
Later last month I posted an article about YouTube finally relaxing the 10 minute video limit, which I found was a stupid rule, based on the fact that as long as the size of the video is under 1 Gig, there’s no real infrastructure overhead related to the duration of the video.
Today, Scott Edwards left me a comment, saying that he noticed that YouTube is enforcing the stupid rule again:
According to a help document on their site, users might have had this option at some point, but they’ve somehow decided it no longer applies:
You can no longer upload videos longer than ten minutes regardless of what type of account you have. Users who had previously been allowed to upload longer content still retain this ability, so you may occasionally see videos that are longer than ten minutes. You can, however, easily change your account type to Director, Comedian, Musician, or Guru, which offer a variety of other features like the ability to add a custom logo, tour date information, and links to other websites.
I understand that in order to get your account type changed, you must meet some traffic minimums (let me know if I’m wrong on this one).
But for sure this limit had been eliminated for all users, so what’s the logic of putting it back?
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