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Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by madamelic »

bussierem wrote: post #16

If I could make a design suggestion, from a minimalist perspective: When showing results, the text that you choose to show kinda feels like the design equivalent of "HEY YO WELCOME TO MY CHANNEL MASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON!!!". When looking at what to display for a video, maybe consider just , and below that? Other thing - Maybe have some kind of simple "searching..." indicator? I hit enter, and the feedback for it wa…

>When looking at what to display for a video, maybe consider just , and below that?

I can definitely do that. The search term I was using while designing returned much nicer descriptions. I'll just remove them completely.

>Other thing - Maybe have some kind of simple "searching..." indicator?

I agree. It is definitely an oversight. Thanks! :)

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by bussierem »

madamelic wrote: post #21
bussierem wrote: post #16

If I could make a design suggestion, from a minimalist perspective: When showing results, the text that you choose to show kinda feels like the design equivalent of "HEY YO WELCOME TO MY CHANNEL MASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON!!!". When looking at what to display for a video, maybe consider just , and below that? Other thing - Maybe have some kind of simple "searching..." indicator? I hit enter, and the feedback for it wa…

>When looking at what to display for a video, maybe consider just , and below that? I can definitely do that. The search term I was using while designing returned much nicer descriptions. I'll just remove them completely. >Other thing - Maybe have some kind of simple "searching..." indicator? I agree. It is definitely an oversight. Thanks! :)

Sounds like a fun project, I'm glad it turned out so well - I wish you luck with everything!

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by nearmuse »

lucb1e wrote: post #14

I started a project to make websites like this for all websites, but didn't get very far. I feel like pretty much every other website could use a lightweight and fast version. Creating those versions is a lot of boring work, though, as you're just parsing DOMs or APIs and there is no challenge to it. (Never mind when they change the HTML again.) Thanks for creating this one!

It would be easier to "make" these with semantic web. Maybe your browser would just have some generic viewer so that you would not have to make any at all.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by RodgerTheGreat »

For some time I've been tinkering with a script which manages my own fine-grained youtube subscription preferences, periodically scrapes various pages for metadata, and then as necessary extracts videos by using the youtube-dl utility. The end result is a directory on my machine which always has a few interesting videos to watch, ad-free, tracking-free, network connection free, using my favorite full-featured video playback tools.

I think others seeking a minimalist youtube experience might enjoy youtube-dl: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by iceprey »

I think this is a good idea, but it seems like you've made the .css file more minimalist than the actual website. I guess there's a distinction to be drawn between making YouTube less appealing to get distracted by, and making the YouTube experience nicer by reducing distraction and noise. If you're going for the latter, here are a few tweaks I would suggest:

* Pick a more aesthetically pleasing than default font, ditch the blue default link colors.

* Normalize the thumbnail size.

* Consider normalizing the video titles to all lowercase. It's still possible to search for something and see all caps everywhere which feels very noisy to my brain.

* Consider leaving the descriptions off altogether

But still, very cool idea!

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

#27

Post by butz »

This could be "code golfed" into even smaller app. Ditch all third party resources: jquery (use vanilla js), stripe (why?), fontawesome (just use some inline svg symbols), tachyons (you could probably write few custom CSS rules yourself and throw in some minimalistic styling too). Not sure about usefulness of service workers, as youtube app won't work offline.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by pvg »

butz wrote: post #27

This could be "code golfed" into even smaller app. Ditch all third party resources: jquery (use vanilla js), stripe (why?), fontawesome (just use some inline svg symbols), tachyons (you could probably write few custom CSS rules yourself and throw in some minimalistic styling too). Not sure about usefulness of service workers, as youtube app won't work offline.

It's strangely huge for what it does (presumably author was going for just visual minimalism), trimming it down is wouldn't exactly be 'code golf'.
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