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Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Mithaldu wrote: post #117
pokemon-trainer wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who regularly searches IMG_0123 to see things like "mayonnaise man" before astronaut.io existed: you must share the link to the video. There's no excuse for the lack of a link. Also, this service does not work with iOS, which is a shame.

You can't link, since whoever made this site disabled any and all controls on the videos. Even the youtube button in the corner is blocked off. This is one of the most evil implementations of video embedding i've ever seen.

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Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by chki »

awqrre wrote: post #132
fallenshell wrote: post #46

My favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBaN0NkyLj8

"This video has been removed by the user."

Yeah, sadly; this could have gone viral. The las time I checked there were about 200 views and a 22 to none like/dislike ratio. Although it is probably better this way.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by wonga »

Mithaldu wrote: post #117
pokemon-trainer wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who regularly searches IMG_0123 to see things like "mayonnaise man" before astronaut.io existed: you must share the link to the video. There's no excuse for the lack of a link. Also, this service does not work with iOS, which is a shame.

You can't link, since whoever made this site disabled any and all controls on the videos. Even the youtube button in the corner is blocked off. This is one of the most evil implementations of video embedding i've ever seen.

the videos are linkable back to youtube via the logo now :D

i think the main side effect is if you accidentally click the video, it stops, which ruins the illusion of a continuous live stream (like television), but that's the tradeoff at the moment i guess ever since the old embed api was deprecated.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by wonga »

blakeyrat wrote: post #94

Good site, but don't you think it's a tad sleazy to use these people's videos without at least letting us click-through to their YouTube channel? I mean it's the absolute least you could do to give them due credit.

with a quick pointer from Mithaldu, the videos are now back to being linkable via the logo. see my response to him regarding some thoughts on this.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by mastazi »

croon wrote: post #118
mastazi wrote: post #58

I am increasingly at odds with the concept of curation. Youtube, Netflix, Google News, Facebook and many other web portals increasingly try to serve what "suits me" using sophisticated algorithms, but what if I don't want that? Every traveller knows that the best trips are those that you didn't really plan that much, which end up being an adventure. If you are driven by curiosity the unexpected is a blessing. For thi…

I've been thinking of this problem ever since Google started serving up different search results for each person (which was a whole lot of years ago). Sure in the beginning it adapts (according to some unknown algorithm) to what you feed it (in best case scenario who you are). I would however suggest that most people here are like me in that they every day try to learn and become less of an idiot, and thus incrementa…

> ever since Google started serving up different search results

True, it was the same process for me, that's when I started looking for ways to avoid that, such as clearing cookies at every session or using incognito tabs; I was (unfortunately) working in the SEO space at the time and having personalised results was completely unacceptable.

I find your comment not confusing and not a rant, your "10-years-ago-me" analogy explains very well what I meant with the "unplanned trip" analogy in my previous comment, except it's much clearer because not everyone is a traveller while, I guess, everyone is subject to the process of growing up and/or learning.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by Mithaldu »

wonga wrote: post #146
Mithaldu wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't link, since whoever made this site disabled any and all controls on the videos. Even the youtube button in the corner is blocked off. This is one of the most evil implementations of video embedding i've ever seen.

the videos are linkable back to youtube via the logo now :D i think the main side effect is if you accidentally click the video, it stops, which ruins the illusion of a continuous live stream (like television), but that's the tradeoff at the moment i guess ever since the old embed api was deprecated.

Cheers for the quick fix, and the explanation. I'm happy to know it was only an aesthetic misstep.
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