Does anyone else find YouTube's search near-unusable for some topic domains?
Yes, it's been like this for a long time now...
YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby
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#152Does anyone else find YouTube's search near-unusable for some topic domains?
I think search includes words mentioned within the video and comments. Often prioritising this over a title and description. This leads to bad results finding things.
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#153I 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.
Also when I search, it shows me about 5 search results, 5 videos related to my search that I may like, and then... recommendations?
Yes. This pisses me off too.
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#154I would love to be able to hide Shorts for good instead of having to do it every 30 days. I wonder what technical issue is preventing them to accomplish such task.
None lmao - a PM who wants shorts
metrics to go up is vetoing that suggestion.
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#155I would love to be able to hide Shorts for good instead of having to do it every 30 days. I wonder what technical issue is preventing them to accomplish such task.
I doubt it's a technical issue. You will never watch shorts if you hide them for good. But if every 30 days you see shorts maybe one day you'll stop hiding them.
classic PM rejection sensitive nonsense imo
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you use Chrome, YouTube Shorts Block [1] is a good extension for that, and removes (mostly) Shorts videos. Not perfect, still leaves some traces (e.g. empty spaces, channel titles in subscriptions), but it helps to declutter your user experience. And while we're talking about extensions to customize your YT experience, here's three more that I really enjoy: - Clickbait Remover [2], to remove the usually clickbait-…
Isn't installing extensions considered extremely dangerous?
What's your threat model?
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#157I would love to be able to hide Shorts for good instead of having to do it every 30 days. I wonder what technical issue is preventing them to accomplish such task.
To the far more experienced HN audience, is there a viable technical reason for this to not stick past 30 days? I would cynically assume it's a solely dark pattern, but I have never built at such a scale as youtube.
No there's no reason that would arise from a systems architecture standpoint. This most definitely was an additive thing, that requires more code than less, in order to reactivate after 30 days (not much more code, but it's not some side effect of some system).
The only reason I could think it's like this for a technical reason is if they put the opt-out "ticket" into some high availability cache system that was hard coded to eject old entries after 30 days, but that would make no sense given YouTube has infra for persistent user configuration already.
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#158When will Youtube allow me to set tags (or my mood).
I like watching science and math video's in the morning, and music video's in the evening. Both are very distinct, yet Youtube will keep putting music video suggestions in the morning, and math in the evening.
Please allow a "mood" (or category) setting, so I can click "math and science" and only get those kind of suggestions.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you use Chrome, YouTube Shorts Block [1] is a good extension for that, and removes (mostly) Shorts videos. Not perfect, still leaves some traces (e.g. empty spaces, channel titles in subscriptions), but it helps to declutter your user experience. And while we're talking about extensions to customize your YT experience, here's three more that I really enjoy: - Clickbait Remover [2], to remove the usually clickbait-…
Isn't installing extensions considered extremely dangerous?
oooo..... are you talking about chrome store that has adware filled garbage duplicates of good quality extensions?
firefox addon store is very much better in that regard. Anyway, this makes me feel like you don't know about gorhill and UBO? that is actually recommended for sane internet browsing on any browsers.
As i often say, surfing the internet in a browser without UBO feels like having unprotected sex. Fun but dangerous.
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#160When will Youtube allow me to set tags (or my mood). I like watching science and math video's in the morning, and music video's in the evening. Both are very distinct, yet Youtube will keep putting music video suggestions in the morning, and math in the evening. Please allow a "mood" (or category) setting, so I can click "math and science" and only get those kind of suggestions.
I just use brand accounts for this. You can create them here: https://www.youtube.com/channel_switcher
It's the best hidden feature of YouTube. You switch using the normal account switcher.