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Re: Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels

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Post by punkspider »

For a similar reason I've been using https://pockettube.io/ for the past year, to manage my YT subscriptions, and it is one of the most impactful extensions I've installed.

Features I really like:

  + Subscription groups: When subscribing to channels you choose in what subscription group to put them. In your left sidebar you can see all your subscription groups and total the number of new videos they published. 
      - When you click on a subscription group from your left sidebar, it doesn't take you away from the current YT URL you're on. It just opens a well-integrated modal window from which you can see what's new. There you can also filter whether the videos watched/unwatched/shorts/uploads/live/.

  + Notifications when a new video video is published in a certain subscription group. For example last year I wanted to keep up with the latest Stable Diffusion developments, so I had a group for this, with high quality channels only, and wanted to be notified when a new video is published.
It feels like more people should know about this extension. Somehow I feel I've found it pretty late in the game, when I realized YT's default subscription management was very painful to me.

Re: Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels

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Post by thanksgiving »

pgorczak wrote: post #3
nobrains wrote: post #2

How is it different from YouTube subscriptions page? As I understand it will hide any old ones since last refresh compared to the YT subs page which will show all. (I need something like this for Hacker News)

The subscriptions page can’t be filtered to show some subset/group of channels. I use PocketTube as a plugin-based alternative.

I am not a fan of the “upcoming” or scheduled videos. I wish there was a way to remove shorts and upcoming videos from my subscription page on YouTube.

Re: Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels

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Post by jraph »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #6

Not the same but since YouTube still has RSS support you can add your favorite channels to an rss reader and get notified about new videos (and unfortunately also shorts)

Yep! That's what Invidious uses. That's what I use to subscribe to channels. The main view does not separate shorts from normal videos neither though. I guess some could implement this in the future.

Re: Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels

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Post by dewey »

nntwozz wrote: post #10
dewey wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having no way to filter shorts is such a weird behavior. Especially on the TV apps…where portrait format video makes even less sense.

You can filter out shorts with Yattee https://github.com/yattee/yattee and Invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious .

Thanks but all these alternative front ends are not really a solution most of the time as I still rely on native YouTube features a lot (playlists, recommendations, notifications, etc.)

Re: Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels

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Post by bambax »

punkspider wrote: post #11

For a similar reason I've been using https://pockettube.io/ for the past year, to manage my YT subscriptions, and it is one of the most impactful extensions I've installed. Features I really like: + Subscription groups: When subscribing to channels you choose in what subscription group to put them. In your left sidebar you can see all your subscription groups and total the number of new videos they published. - When…

Interesting, but most features seem to be reserved to Patreon sponsors.

Re: Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels

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Post by Decabytes »

My strategy is just to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocksite/ with the regex R:^https://www.youtube.com/$ and redirect that to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

With this strategy, I've often seen videos from my favorite YouTubers within minutes of them posting a new video. It also allows me to "finish" watching YouTube for the day.

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