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Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by madamelic »

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.

Heh.

Yeah, you kind of got me there. I re-use the same template for all of my sites. Those must've missed my trimming. I'll remove them tonight.

Thanks!

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Post by striking »

RodgerTheGreat wrote: post #25

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 p…

Could you release some part of that script too? It sounds really interesting.

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Post by bluedino »

kang wrote: post #34

Few years ago there were sites like cull.tv and mox.tv that were really amazing interfaces for youtube. Its sad that now doesn't even exist a demo somewhere(?)

I thought there were also sites like this that you could make music playlists on and share them with others

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by madamelic »

asfgionio wrote: post #17
madamelic wrote: post #2

Hey all! I tossed this together because I had trouble with YouTube and its rabbit hole. I wanted a way to still watch my favorite people without a lot of noise + distraction. I also use YouTube for live music while working (which is an issue if I get distracted by a neat looking video) So I made Tube. It is just a search box and it shows you the top few results, you click on one and all you get is the player. Let me…

I would look at Youtube Feather. It was a stripped-down version of Youtube Google made several years back. Sadly it's discontinued now. I think you've gone too far. Tearing out bloat and psychological manipulation is good, but it should have playlists, channels, and search filters. Those are important features for finding videos.

>Tearing out bloat and psychological manipulation is good, but it should have playlists, channels, and search filters.

I'll definitely consider it. I didn't expect it to get this response to be honest.

The target is more about cutting out the psychological rabbit hole, less about making it really light (although it would be a nice side effect)

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by madamelic »

iceprey wrote: post #26

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, di…

Thanks for the recommendations. I will definitely work on these. :)

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Post by stephengillie »

nearmuse wrote: post #23
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.

I'm writing a small JavaScript engine that converts websites to JSON, and displays JSON as websites. Since an entire site is described in the same JSON file, the whole site is a single download, and it rebuilds pages in the browser instead of calling the server - much faster, especially on mobile.

If the browser had this small engine, it could render these sites natively.

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Post by ucaetano »

sakuronto wrote: post #15
madamelic wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, it won't filter out pre-roll ads, but there is always YouTube Red, if you dislike ads and don't hate Google.

And there are always ad blockers, if you dislike ads but do hate Google!

And hate the content producers too!
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