FixYT
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#12I love it. With all the horrible and bloated changes they have been making, I thought there would be an opportunity to create simpler version of or alternate of YouTube. I guess you are still using YouTube contents so they can block you if they wish.
I still think there is an opportunity to create an alternate video sharing site that's good enough.
Good job, though! I will be using your site instead of youtube as long as your site is live.
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#13I use a browser plugin that strips down the actual site to a minimal version http://www.clea.nr It's by far the best solution I've found since it stays out of the way, and when I click on a Youtube link the page is much nicer.
There's also YouTube's own Feather beta: http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta
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#14As always, I love sites that strip down YouTube. YouTube houses tons of great content; however, they seem to be making their consumers pretty unhappy. Check out http://www.tubalr.com it's my app and focuses on YouTube's music content.
Grats on hitting the front page and I hope you can retain users, its the hardest part about websites like this.
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#15It's nice but if you ever even appear to cut into their ad model they'll shut ya down. Gotta pay the engineers, other employees, electric bill etc.... youtube ain't free ;) EDIT: I really like the site & hope you flesh it out. Just not getting my hopes up too high. :)
YouTube only shows ads in the video right? Looks like those are still being shown.
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#16I love it. With all the horrible and bloated changes they have been making, I thought there would be an opportunity to create simpler version of or alternate of YouTube. I guess you are still using YouTube contents so they can block you if they wish. I still think there is an opportunity to create an alternate video sharing site that's good enough. Good job, though! I will be using your site instead of youtube as lon…
There's also Google's own version of trimmed down youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta
After enabling that I've never looked back. No comments and loads way faster.
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#17Simply awesome, in an instant I remembered all of the reasons I used to like youtube.
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#18It's nice but if you ever even appear to cut into their ad model they'll shut ya down. Gotta pay the engineers, other employees, electric bill etc.... youtube ain't free ;) EDIT: I really like the site & hope you flesh it out. Just not getting my hopes up too high. :)
YouTube only shows ads in the video right? Looks like those are still being shown.
Nope - they run homepage banners, sidebar ads and occasionally full-page adverts (that hijack the background). It's surreal browsing without Adblock occasionally.
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#19Does this get around the issue of local ISPs caching the content and then causing the video download to be extremely slow?
I've heard there's a way get your browser to always connect directly to YouTube's servers, but I could never get it to work.
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#20It's nice but if you ever even appear to cut into their ad model they'll shut ya down. Gotta pay the engineers, other employees, electric bill etc.... youtube ain't free ;) EDIT: I really like the site & hope you flesh it out. Just not getting my hopes up too high. :)
I've built something a little bit more fleshed out, actually... How about a site that lets you search and watch videos at the same time. And also does Vimeo. And lets you save them to personal collections. Here you go.
http://huzzaz.com/search