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Post by doh »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #155
brod wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This logic would require them to re-scrape every video forever, which is unreasonable. I think a better approach for everyone involved would be to only store references to videos which were posted more than x minutes ago. I'm not sure if they have that information when scraping though.

GP said: >It seems that a lot of users will upload video which is by default published [and then they change it to private] // So to avoid that sort of unexpected public-ing (ie publishing) only one extra scrape would be needed. Or, if they knew the period over which the setting was normally changed then they could just delay the scrape until most would have already been changed. I imagine though, in part, the 'fun'…

It actually has nothing to do with "fun". As I mentioned in my other comment, we don't expose our database publicly and nobody but us can see that a video is unlisted.

It would beat the purpose of our service would we delay our identification, and it would actually require some significant engineering efforts in order to introduce such capabilities into our system with significant economical impact on our business.

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Post by sah2ed »

bksenior wrote: post #130
marmshallow wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you asking for information about the creator of astronaut.io or the lady reading her poem?

Creator of astronaut.io

The creators' Twitter:

  - https://twitter.com/@wongavision
  - https://twitter.com/@astrojams1
Originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by jchw »

The implementation here is somewhat interesting.

- Video IDs are spit out onto a Socket.io connection. (Another person claims it’s synchronized, which seems likely.)

- While one video plays, another player is in the background buffering the next video. Making it quite seemless.

- The code is from 2011, apparently, and it feels like it. You have code in script tags and plain old unminified JS, not to mention jQuery. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s almost nostalgic at this juncture.

So many of the videos it was pulling up had IMG/MOV/DCS in the title that I wondered if that was the strategy for finding unwatched videos, but I don’t think so, it must just be a consequence of many people uploading videos directly from camera files.

One remark I do have is that it seems to not be picking the most recent videos. There might be good reason for that (maybe waiting filters out bad content, or content that will have views?)

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Post by BOBOTWINSTON »

ajhurliman wrote: post #76

"Go" button is missing on Chrome and Brave, background video doesn't work on Brave. Cool website though, I could watch this for hours.

I don't see any buttons on FF 68 either. I was able to just click around for the first one.. can't find one to get videos playing.

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Post by acangiano »

_2d30 wrote: post #49

Amazing concept. This was an incredible thing to uncover during my few minutes on the site: https://youtu.be/1rvPbeHjzlk It's a video of a woman reciting a poem that she wrote for her eldest son that speaks of her love for her son and her wish that he would get "off the streets". Emotional, honest, real. YouTube like I've never experienced. Brilliant.

This is a great find and a very somber video. It brings me a smile to know that this lady will wake up to her video having thousands of views and hundreds of likes, as well as many lovely comments.

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Post by Loughla »

chronogram wrote: post #196
ddalex wrote: post #163

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Absolutely brilliant point. In the same vein of avoiding bubbles, I browse reddit by 'Top Of The Hour'. Filtrated enough to be decent quality, very fresh content, and not yet subverted by bubble affiliation or mind hiveing.

I tried that just now and it shows lots of memes. How do you do that and have it show regular content?

Based on my experience at Reddit, memes are the regular content at this point if you're looking at r/all.

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Post by genericacct »

Firerouge wrote: post #126
gbudee wrote: post #62

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What a discovery. I feel a bit intrusive getting to experience it. I hope her communication succeeds.

~1 kiloviews now with 152:3 thumbs ratio, why would someone dislike this!?

Who of us has never clicked the wrong button? Touch UI interfaces make it even easier
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