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Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by u801e »

saagarjha wrote: post #31
zo1 wrote: post #22

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You can look at the edit history of that comment. You'll see that dstftw edited it to remove references to the youtube_dlc repo. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462#issue-68... Unfortunately, can't find a way to link to the edit in question directly. You'll have to click once there to see the diff.

Being able to edit people’s comments on GitHub is nice as a maintainer but removing information and completely changing people’s comments is really nasty. Any such effort should be clearly justified, preferably with a visual “edit message” that goes along with the smaller “edited” text.

I don't think that editing comments that you didn't make should ever be a feature. This is something that could easily be abused to make it appear that someone else said something they didn't actually way.

Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by claudeganon »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #13
capableweb wrote: post #7

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Seems to have been originally spawned from this discussion: "Youtube-dl is dying?" https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 citing many PRs are not getting merged. Anecdote: youtube-dl still works for all the sites I'm using it for.

I maintain several open source projects. Sometimes PR are not merged for years. I'm not payed for this, I'm not even thanked for this most of the time, so I'm certainly not going to set any deadline. But forking might be a solution, if you can give the necessary horse power for the long run. Most can't.

It’s odd to me how nontechnical people have migrated to GitHub to make bug reports on software they use.

The other day, I was trying to use a Python library to scrape some stuff. It kept breaking. I looked on the issues page and there were many, essentially useless bug reports asking them to fix the issue. I opened up the script and changed about 7 lines and it worked fine.

Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

claudeganon wrote: post #72
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #13

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I maintain several open source projects. Sometimes PR are not merged for years. I'm not payed for this, I'm not even thanked for this most of the time, so I'm certainly not going to set any deadline. But forking might be a solution, if you can give the necessary horse power for the long run. Most can't.

It’s odd to me how nontechnical people have migrated to GitHub to make bug reports on software they use. The other day, I was trying to use a Python library to scrape some stuff. It kept breaking. I looked on the issues page and there were many, essentially useless bug reports asking them to fix the issue. I opened up the script and changed about 7 lines and it worked fine.

Well, they look for a channel to communicate their frustration. Most are closed. This one is open. The water follows the path of least resistance.

Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by slenk »

chrisseaton wrote: post #57
xorcist wrote: post #44

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Let's hope the fork merges those 700 PRs and see which project is maintained in five years. Keeping software well maintained involves a lot of saying no, unfortunately.

> Keeping software well maintained involves a lot of saying no, unfortunately. Right... and the youtube-dl maintainers aren't doing that.

Wouldn't not merging a PR be the same as saying no

Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by chrisseaton »

slenk wrote: post #75
chrisseaton wrote: post #57

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> Keeping software well maintained involves a lot of saying no, unfortunately. Right... and the youtube-dl maintainers aren't doing that.

Wouldn't not merging a PR be the same as saying no

Saying 'no thanks' and closing is saying 'no'. Leaving it unacknowledged isn't saying yes or no.

Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by TillE »

user5994461 wrote: post #46
trzeci wrote: post #32

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I was also using JDownloader mostly, but looks that this comment isn't popular. Is there something about JDownloader that I'm missing?

It's dodgy software. It got acquired and got some spyware/adware/toolbars embedded. Don't trust. Personally, I removed the older version I had, fearing it would auto upgrade and auto install malware. It's a download manager for shared hosting sites, mostly used for downloading movies/shows/games. It can get videos from youtube, dailymotion and a hundred sites but it's not the main purpose. Users are willing to try an…

Get the .jar, use only the .jar. It self-updates and everything. It's a shame about the crapware-laden installer, though, it's an excellent utility otherwise.
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