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YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby

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Re: YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby

#21

OT: I wish there was a way to create a playlist from music youtube suggestions. I am losing some good things when accidentally closing a tab.

> OT: I wish there was a way to create a playlist from music youtube suggestions. I am losing some good things when accidentally closing a tab.

How about hover on each suggestion and add it to "Watch Later" or even Queue? That also works, at least for me.

Re: YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby

#23
I wish you could sort by views within certain time frames. I've written a JS snippet to help do this in the past, but it's crazy to me that this isn't implemented natively.

My use-case is wanting to check out the top videos from a specific time frame. I'll periodically check in on some channels or niche interest, and I just wanna get a sense of their top videos.

For example, I don't watch League of Legends regularly, but I like to check out the occasional VOD, and if I'm gonna watch a random game I'll probably get a good game by picking one with a lot of views within the last 2 or 3 months.

Other times I might go a year or two without listening to an artist and I wanna check out their most popular videos in that time frame.

Re: YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby

#24
I so wish youtube would have a more powerful search.

Can I have something better then 'longer then 20min'? Like there are tons of things that go up to 3h or more. And often I might want 1h content but the 'longer then 20min' shows tons of stuff that is some 22min video.

Re: YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby

#25

I wish you could sort by views within certain time frames. I've written a JS snippet to help do this in the past, but it's crazy to me that this isn't implemented natively. My use-case is wanting to check out the top videos from a specific time frame. I'll periodically check in on some channels or niche interest, and I just wanna get a sense of their top videos. For example, I don't watch League of Legends regularly,…

"before:" works in search, at least it did a short while ago.

Re: YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby

#27
Great. Can we get Amazon to have price sorting work too please? And have it actually accurately show cost per unit across similar products? I have to believe it's deliberately broken in both cases which is fucking annoying.

Re: YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby

#29

Now for them to bring back the 5 star rating system and video replies!

...and the dislike counting! I don't want to depend on an extension to know whether a video worth to watch or not.

The problem with dislike counting is that the customers of Youtube (advertisers) do not want it, because they are spooked to have their ads associated with perceived negativity.

Re: YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby

#30

Maybe it is to maximize revenue. older videos are less profitable for google compared to newer ones .

so you're saying they're disabling the feature of "not being able to watch old videos" to maximize revenue?

Idk, but I’ve noticed that many old non-popular videos take time to load or seek. It seems they’re optimizing availability architecture wrt that.
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