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Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by digging »

Almondsetat wrote: post #37
lucasoshiro wrote: post #32

This is something I always wonder... Something that I really miss from TV on internet content (YouTube, movie streamings and so on) is turn it on and watching what's being transmitted without thinking about what I wanna see. Three reasons: 1. Picking something to watch takes time. Sometimes I only want to see something in the 15 minutes that I'm dining alone. My meal gets cold before I start the video 2. Choosing som…

Why can't you pick randomly from your home page and let auto play do its thing?

This works pretty well for YT when it knows your preferences, but for streaming TV services like Netflix I find it's a box of chocolates full of shit. It's just going to be whatever is being "promoted" at the time and has the most widespread appeal, not something interesting.

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by asveikau »

Suppafly wrote: post #64
asveikau wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Sometimes I only want to see something in the 15 minutes that I'm dining alone. I think the YouTube recommendation algorithm you get from opening the app or viewing the front page is good for this. They have a lot of random content and when the algorithm gets to know you, it will suggest things of interest that can be consumed this way.

I have so many subscriptions on youtube that the home recommendation is actually a quicker way to find something interesting if I have limited time, since the subscriptions are full of shorts and 'reruns' now where creators try to monetize old videos in new ways. The only issue is that my youtube is the one on the main tv, so sometimes the suggestions get messed up when my kids watch. Youtube probably has a really co…

My kids mostly watch on tablets which are their own. On the TV, they have separate profiles on all the streaming apps. We don't do YouTube much on TV but when we do, I've always been sure to give them a different device that is not logged into my account.

If I lend them a device to watch YouTube I usually do it in the browser in incognito.

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by shprd »

hadisafa wrote: post #40
shprd wrote: post #34

Really cool with great execution. Out of curiosity, I'd love to know more: - how the backend look like? - Are the channels are based on a static pool of videos by category? - Is there a "schedule" for a channel or picked at random?

- There is no backend, just html, css, and js - yes channels are based on categories(science, travel, documentaries, etc.) - yes there is a schedule, each video is scheduled to play at a certain time, so everyone is watching the same exact thing.

Well done. Do you've plans for further development to grow this?

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by odo1242 »

silisili wrote: post #85

In Brave, even disabling ad blocker, all I get is static on all 12. Did we kill it? *edit - oops, I have an extension to stop autoplaying html5 videos. Disabling that did the trick.

It does take much longer than I expected to load (~15 seconds), but it does work for me
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