This is the one of the worst updates Youtube has ever put it's users
through. What happened to our freedom? Now we can't even have a good
background image for our channel? That is seriously shitty. Please
excuse me for the language, but it is just so retarded. Let me share
with you my story. Today, I thought it was time to change my
background. I've had it for a while now and it was starting to look
dull. So, I fired up MS Paint and got to work. After about an hour of
putting together assorted images and sprites, I fired up Adobe
Photoshop to finalize my new background. After 2 and a 1/2 hours of
work, I was finally done. The image came out to 701KB. Not bad at all.
So, excited to share my work with my friends and viewers of my
channel, I quickly rushed over to imageshack to upload it. It uploaded
rather quickly, quicker then it usually does. I was even happier. Then
I opened up my channel edit page, and found a browse button. I said,
"Okay, so Youtube hosts images now? That's pretty neat." Then I look
directly underneath the browse button to see that the file size limit
was ONLY 256KB. THAT IS PURE BULL. I went into a minor rage. When I
pulled myself together, I decided all I could do now was compress the
image. I let out a deep breath, and got back to work. Another hour
goes by, and I finally get the image to 248KB. In order to do that, I
had to cut off 1/4 of the image, save it as a GIF with edited colors
for less quality, and delete certain high resolution images.
Frustrated, I went back to upload my butchered work. Now, I uploaded
it successfully! BUT IT WON'T EVEN SHOW UP ON MY PAGE. EVERYTHING I
DID WAS FOR NOTHING. NOTHING! Youtube is no longer the same user
friendly video sharing site it used to be. It's just going to crap now
with the worse updates you can imagine. Here are some suggestions:
1. Get rid of the hosting crap, because you obviously can't do it.
Give the URL linking feature back.
2. Raise the file size limit. Make it AT LEAST 5MB. That would be
fair. AND MAKE SURE IMAGES YOU UPLOAD ACTUALLY WORK.

I'm sure everyone would prefer option 1, because it just makes
everything easier and provides more customization. (Animated GIFs for
one thing.) Please Youtube, the community is begging you to fix this
unwanted update. Thank you.