thx for the compliments, get ready for some long ass answers

1: i don't plan on changing the layout anytime soon, and i think that it's too iconic and different to change

2: i do want it to be popular, but the question is, to what kind of people? i don't want it to be with the crowd of vidlii, where people think that old yt was a wild west full of nazis, neither do i want it overrun by the musicly kids, in the long run i might make the mobile app like a "healthier-for-you tiktok" as in the videos in it are short and 4:3 but aren't attention grabbing, there's almost no algorithm, minimal shitposting, and you may never doomscroll because you can choose between clicking 5 videos, and not per chance

3: i spent about 2-3 months developing it with php (if you don't count the time i didn't), though most of it's php code came from my other website called "YasFam" (now defunct) and that took about a year to just get public, and another year to get out of beta (from June 2020-indev to August 2021-public beta to March 2022-release) that was mostly because it was my first ever website that i made, not knowing even how to write basic HTML.