Is giving the user imprecise information good UX?
I noticed that YouTube now doesn't show the exact number of views anymore, when the video has more than 1.000 views.
But instead of showing something abbreviated like 203k views
, they show 203.000 views
. Clearly rounded and in principle inaccurate.
I asked a similar question about YouTubes decision to not show the actual date of upload or "age" of a video, but rather showing imprecise representations like 1 year ago
for a video, that was posted 1 year and 10 months ago: What is the advantage of using imprecise representations of time i. e. 'an hour ago'?
This latest change does not hide more accurate information so much as it pretends it isn't available.
Is there any advantage to this, with reference to user experience or site usability? I personally really dislike this choice, because, while pretty much useless information in this example, it feels like I get a curated version of reality.