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Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#31
While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX.

I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#32
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it hurt artists really? I imagine a lot of YouTube users use ad blockers anyways, so a lot of artists have switched to in-video paid promotions.

How exactly does that pay for YouTubes storage, bandwidth and transcoding costs? How does that pay for music artists which request that their music is paid for when people are listening to it in background? Why the wierd double standard with YT?

Double standard compared to what?

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#33

While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...

So do you see on your front-page of yt relevant videos and channels?

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#34

While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...

"play audio in background on mobile" is quite a big feature.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#35

While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...

Lots of people like the content on YouTube but don't like all the Googley parts.

I frequently watch YouTube over Tor, and they've started making me do lots of reCAPTCHAs and occasionally even rejecting me after I've completed the reCAPTCHAs.

HookTube is an improvement over the real YouTube interface in the sense that it never makes me do CAPTCHAs, except some proportion of videos don't work on HookTube, it just gives a black box saying "Watch this video on YouTube".

From a sample of 1 video that I couldn't watch on HookTube, it worked straight away on Invidious. So it's useful in that sense if nothing else.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#36
post #2

This looks neat! Without all the Google/Alphabet spying. I’ve noticed that this project is written in Crystal, is Crystal production ready? I've looked into it months ago and it seems that there are a lot of breaking changes on every release and this scares me from using it.

I wouldn't consider v0.30 "production ready", especially for a programming language. Breaking changes should be expected until they reach 1.0.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#37
post #2

This looks neat! Without all the Google/Alphabet spying. I’ve noticed that this project is written in Crystal, is Crystal production ready? I've looked into it months ago and it seems that there are a lot of breaking changes on every release and this scares me from using it.

Crystal is most certainly not production ready but nonetheless I find it interesting and useful and use it for https://ratwires.space (nsfw)

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#38

While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...

> "In the background, the first video of the user’s recommendations is playing"

Well that sounds horrendous.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#39
post #8

If you are using Firefox, there's a great add-on called Invidition that you can install. It redirects Youtube to Invidious and Twitter to Nitter. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/invidition/

wow, great! I am too on the "I do not like google to know what I see in youtube"

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

#40
post #34

While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...

"play audio in background on mobile" is quite a big feature.

cant find it hm :?
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