Google, the company that runs gmail, can't filters a little spam? That's their excuse for removing accessibility features?
What utter shitheads.
YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
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#12> This feature was rarely used
Seriously? Without the subtitles from fans, I can't really count how many great content I will miss, especially for relative niche languages.
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#13Google 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’re getting hammered from the left for insufficient moderation of content, and from the right for overly aggressive moderation of content. It’s a lose-lose where the only real option is to remove extraneous features that enable users to upload content visible to others. Even if there was a standard of moderation that would satisfy everyone, there’s too much to moderate.
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#14community-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.
Is i18n deteriorating at a global scale?
I’m seeing more and more nonsense machine translations and systemic errors in manual translations over few years in my language. Once I’ve seen a story about a corporate turning down “should” and “should not” swapped in documentation as a non reproducible issue, other times I see semi-sensical expressions that has 1:n relationships between English and Translated that needs context to select but randomly thrown around, probably as a best effort from translators.
e.g. [“X had occurred”, “Please do X now”, “Use this to do X”, “Choose which you want for X”, “Do X for this event”]
Microsoft used to be great in this regard in 2000s but now feel like I’m back at when gcc was telling me “$DIRNAME am directory entering”
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#15No, they are removing the ability to create them. The existing contributions will remain.
Not quite. It seems like creators have until September 28 to choose to publish existing community contributions, and if they don't, it seems like they will all disappear. That's how I interpret, "You have until September 28, 2020 to publish your community contributions before they’re removed."
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#16IMO, subtitles from community contributions are a good way for me to enjoy foreign YouTube contents. Removing that is a bad news for people like me.
There are also a petition about this: https://www.change.org/p/google-inc-don-t-remove-community-c... But I doubt that it would reverse YouTube's decision.
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#17Alternative Free video hosting sites :
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#18Seems like they have enough resources to train their translation NN and speech-to-text NN. I don't think google has introduced those features for the users in the first place but they were a means to get training data.
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#19Is it me or does it seem like a lot less content is getting autogenerated English captions? Maybe the backlog is growing, but I've been used to all new content being captioned, but am surprised when new uploads aren't captioned.
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#20Google 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’re getting hammered from the left for insufficient moderation of content, and from the right for overly aggressive moderation of content. It’s a lose-lose where the only real option is to remove extraneous features that enable users to upload content visible to others. Even if there was a standard of moderation that would satisfy everyone, there’s too much to moderate.
Even if there was a standard of moderation that would satisfy everyone, there’s too much to moderate.
If only Google had a half a trillion dollars to spend on something other that spying on people. And if only there were 35 million people out of work.
But, alas, poor sweet simple Google cannot possibly lie in the bed it made.