YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
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#2community-contributed subtitles are an essential part of the appeal of YouTube for me, particularly with non-English videos from small operations who may not have the resources to provide quality transcriptions/translations. I don't think this functionality was as little-used as the support post represents. Clearly more options exist for managing spam than just shutting down the feature altogether.
Re: YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
#3community-contributed subtitles are an essential part of the appeal of YouTube for me, particularly with non-English videos from small operations who may not have the resources to provide quality transcriptions/translations. I don't think this functionality was as little-used as the support post represents. Clearly more options exist for managing spam than just shutting down the feature altogether.
yep, I see this feature being actively used on many of the channels i follow and I see it being appreciated frequently (and asked for when not enabled). This is a good example of inclusiveness in action; many people are able to appreciate content that otherwise may not be compelling to them due to language and ability differences. really sad to see it scrapped
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#4I can totally see this abused for channels / topics with toxic communities. Personally, I've only seen this work largely as intended. Overall, it's a net loss, I don't really see many communities replacing this feature by coordinating with the creator. Frequently, videos I watch doesn't even get automated transcription feature - there's a lot of good foreign content out there.
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#5> Once you have same language captions for a video, your community can submit translations to help you reach a global audience.
Oh so they realized it's free labour and whant the users to train their speech recognition AI.
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#6It is too bad that the automated speech to text isn’t good enough to allow them to turn this feature off without losing a great deal of high quality subtitling.
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#7No, they are removing the ability to create them. The existing contributions will remain.
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#8No, they are removing the ability to create them. The existing contributions will remain.
"Community Contributions" is the name of the feature, but the title could be phrased better
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#9Google just wants to eliminate any remaining trust users have in them, don't they?
Every feature they remove, they do because it is a burden on feature velocity or maintenance. Fine, but why are they so bad at weighing it against long term trust? At this point, I expect the search box to search, Gmail to send emails, YouTube to host videos, maps to do navigation, and docs to edit docs. One core feature per platform, all other features will probably be dropped sooner or later.
It's a bad look, Google.
Re: YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
#10Google just wants to eliminate any remaining trust users have in them, don't they? Every feature they remove, they do because it is a burden on feature velocity or maintenance. Fine, but why are they so bad at weighing it against long term trust? At this point, I expect the search box to search, Gmail to send emails, YouTube to host videos, maps to do navigation, and docs to edit docs. One core feature per platform,…
They are indirectly helping the community by prodding them to look for decentralized alternatives like peertube, lbry, etc. every now and then. They can't say it outright as they have to care about shareholder and corporate interests, etc. but even they know where the future lies internally!