To be honest... good riddance. Her tenure will probably be remembered for YouTube's slowly increasing decline into irrelevancy among the young enamored with TikTok and Instagram, increasing and significant censorship misfires (the moment almost every creator has to mention Content ID and the YouTube algorithm or the community guidelines, you've screwed up), the removal of the dislike button despite overwhelming negative feedback to the change in what appears to have been a method of placating advertisers, and the total butchering of YouTube Rewind into a corporate affair before finally giving up.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
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#152That crazy push for 10min and longer videos was a sole reason why tiktok happened. I still remember that there used to be short and super informative videos before but now everything is so stretched out with low info density
I remember some of the best youtube content I've seen was less than 10 minutes in length, like short animations and other content which took a lot of time to produce in small amounts.
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#153That crazy push for 10min and longer videos was a sole reason why tiktok happened. I still remember that there used to be short and super informative videos before but now everything is so stretched out with low info density
I remember some of the best youtube content I've seen was less than 10 minutes in length, like short animations and other content which took a lot of time to produce in small amounts.
Khan academy videos are one of the best examples for this.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I am a massive fan of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music. While I am a bit nervous because major change like this could lead to those products getting worse, I'm also hopeful that it could lead to them getting better! So in general I'm just eager to see what happens next, come what may.
can you sell it to a current spotify user?
Spotify's catalog for Indian languages is smaller than Youtube. Not only is YT Music's collection larger, the recommendation system works better for Indian languages too. I have been that the autoplay follows the mood/ type of the song better than Spotify.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's in the company of curious, smart people like the kind I routinely encounter here on HN, then yes! Absolutely! I greatly enjoy a good round of civil speculation and discussion with my fellow hackers :P
* There's absolutely nothing we could do to influence YouTube's leadership changes. * There's very little you can do to influence changes in the product YouTube as well. * There's very little we know about the internals of upper C-level leadership changes. Speculating is an utter waste of time. I don't see a point. For me this news was just another passable piece of information. Meh! Definitely not HN front-page wort…
If speculating is a waste of time then this sub-thread is spectacularly pointless (and against HN guidelines btw). Think before you post.
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#156I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.
What is your grandfathered price?
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
The dislike button was never removed, that is not accurate. The dislike count is no longer being displayed to viewers. Dislikes still exist. In my opinion, it is important to be accurate with language.
Isn't this a distinction without a difference? The point of having likes/dislikes is it's supposed to be a social signal for quality of the content? I have found dislikes useful for knowing which videos to skip if I am crunched for time and do not want to watch all of them, like music.
I believe disliking it also influences whether or not you are recommended similar content.
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Rewarding to who? And _she_ made it? To me YT continued its successful streak despite of the poor changes with not much to attribute to people actually making the calls.
Exactly, she was only CEO since 2014. Saying she made YT is laughable, if anything most of the annoying things at YT happened under her reign, from bogus DMCAs to dislike button removal to the force fed YT shorts and so on.
Youtube before 2014 was great, I definitely feel like there was a big decline in quality in both content, the app, and the website since then.
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#159That crazy push for 10min and longer videos was a sole reason why tiktok happened. I still remember that there used to be short and super informative videos before but now everything is so stretched out with low info density
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#160Hopefully Sundar's turn next!
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