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

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Post by bloopernova »

Mostly offtopic: This reminds me of the LiveJournal page where you could view all the latest images uploaded to that site. It was a mix of everything from news to porn and gave a small insight into the zeitgeist. It was also voyeuristic, and to this almost 50 year old it seems similar to the endless-refresh consumption of tiktok.

The web was definitely much, much smaller back then. You couldn't do something similar with any of the large social media sites, although maybe a small random sampling would work. I wonder if part of the perceived ills of social media are due to the sheer scale of it all? It's impossible to be "caught up" with anything anymore, there's always another trillion gallons pouring out of the firehose. Perhaps that's partly why HN endures, it stays small?

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

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Post by ithinkso »

thanksgiving wrote: post #13
pgorczak wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I forgot shorts exist, there are ublock origin filters that work beautifully. I haven't blocked the upcoming ones because there are very rare in my feed and I just unsubscribed from the few notorious offenders

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

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Post by browningstreet »

thanksgiving wrote: post #13
pgorczak wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are plugins available that do this on desktop.

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

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Post by browningstreet »

My YouTube process must be very corner case. I usually keep an eye on subscriptions during the day and add the videos I want to watch to watch later and then order them a special way. House and trailers first, entertainment, fitness and then music. I have a separate watch later for the gym that I curate in a similar order for long treadmill runs. And that gets downloaded to the phone.

I do this every day. YouTube’s changing interface designs usually make this harder and harder.

Being able to order by channel groups would actually help this but I usually watch via AppleTV app in the evening.

Apparently very few people use watch later and order intentionally. Just two actions to corner case myself.

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

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Post by catlover76 »

browningstreet wrote: post #35

My YouTube process must be very corner case. I usually keep an eye on subscriptions during the day and add the videos I want to watch to watch later and then order them a special way. House and trailers first, entertainment, fitness and then music. I have a separate watch later for the gym that I curate in a similar order for long treadmill runs. And that gets downloaded to the phone. I do this every day. YouTube’s c…

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

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Post by vallode »

browningstreet wrote: post #35

My YouTube process must be very corner case. I usually keep an eye on subscriptions during the day and add the videos I want to watch to watch later and then order them a special way. House and trailers first, entertainment, fitness and then music. I have a separate watch later for the gym that I curate in a similar order for long treadmill runs. And that gets downloaded to the phone. I do this every day. YouTube’s c…

How many minutes/hours a day do you spend curating your subscriptions? This sounds fairly exhausting looking at it throughout the day, every day. Surely you'd be able to achieve the same effect curating your subscriptions at the end of the day, or even end of the week.

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Post by geerlingguy »

browningstreet wrote: post #35

My YouTube process must be very corner case. I usually keep an eye on subscriptions during the day and add the videos I want to watch to watch later and then order them a special way. House and trailers first, entertainment, fitness and then music. I have a separate watch later for the gym that I curate in a similar order for long treadmill runs. And that gets downloaded to the phone. I do this every day. YouTube’s c…

I do the exact same thing and couldn't imagine using YouTube another way.

YouTube sometimes hides the watch later option, which is getting annoying (it only shows up at certain screen widths now on non-app), but I can usually find a way (even if I have to resort to emailing the URL, then later dropping it in a wider browser window on my desktop.

(Only difference is I actually drag longer videos towards the top of the list since they can sit there a while until I get a few minutes to actually watch them).

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