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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by thethethethe »

thenaturalist wrote: post #398
labrador wrote: post #147

YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…

> I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. Teach me your secret to receiving good recos. The bad quality of recos is the total downturner for me. Nothing, absolutely nothing interesting for months. All that's being recommended is totally generic high view stuff, not at all related to my channels or c…

You can train the algorithm by saying you are not interested in videos or channels. I have told the algorithm to not recommend garbage channels with top 10 videos and my feed is much better now

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Post by 93po »

joegahona wrote: post #56

I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.

Worth noting you can VPN to other countries and get super cheap rates ($2 month). You don't have to stay on the VPN to retain the rate.

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Post by scriptsmith »

labrador wrote: post #147

YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…

They're 'better' in tone, but for many videos the comments come across as very sycophantic which is a bit tiresome. That's not always the case though, so probably depends to some extent on the channel's community.

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Post by sammalloy »

voisin wrote: post #30
5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #26

- increasingly ignores your search keywords, instead shoving unrelated stuff at you - removed ability to sort videos by date - removed dislikes what else.....youtube UX has being getting worse for a few years.

Fear not! Just serve more ads before and between every video! Sacrifice your user at the altar of advertisers and all will be fine in the world.

YouTube is almost unwatchable. The show I’m viewing now has an ad every minute or so. I don’t see how they will survive another few years. They’ve literally angered their user base to the point of abandoning the platform.

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Post by ChickenNugger »

gardenhedge wrote: post #238
xnx wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly right. Youtube has been trying so hard to turn itself into a tv network. Tiktok (for now) is a classic disrupter and has had tremendous success by making something great that people liked. Vine is the more embarassing failure, but YouTube is a close second. For those who dismis tiktok without even trying it, it is hard to convey how fun, interesting, and surprising it can be.

Does TikTok make a profit though?

Is it required to? It's effectively Chinese government owned, right?

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Post by ChickenNugger »

rolobio wrote: post #74
kerpotgh wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely disagree. Getting rid of that button has significantly cleaned up the associated comments sections. I’ve also noticed a general improvement in my recommendations. Great move imo.

How can you tell when a video contains something misleading? For example, I struggle to find quality DIY videos without the dislikes warning me away. Dislikes are a great way for the community to clean house.

>Dislikes are a great way for the community to clean house.

That's precisely why it was removed. Can't let the rabble have a voice. They might think the wrong things.

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Post by r3vo »

Whatarethese wrote: post #416
CSDude wrote: post #206

Can I get my dislike button back now? Youtube has been a significantly worse place since that.

Have you downloaded the extension that brings that back?

Only works against the database the extension manages. Biased in comparison to the native dislike button.

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

asdff wrote: post #412
tasubotadas wrote: post #86

That crazy push for 10min and longer videos was a sole reason why tiktok happened. I still remember that there used to be short and super informative videos before but now everything is so stretched out with low info density

I think twitter killing vine was the real moment that brought us tik tok. It was like the digg exodus to reddit but way bigger. Everyone thought twitter was dumb for cancelling one of the most popular social networks out there for no good reason, and what do you know, the market proved this was dumb when tencent came in with their vine clone and became bigger than twitter ever was.

That was a remarkably bad call and huge fuck up. The weirdest thing is I think all my older gen-X colleagues are the ones that could've told you that. They were the ones who had kids old enough to be on music-Ly or whatever that got bought by TikTok. I as a lowly millennial had no idea what they were talking about at first but whatever it was had all the signs of a viral success with their kids.

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Post by function_seven »

scriptsmith wrote: post #423
labrador wrote: post #147

YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…

They're 'better' in tone, but for many videos the comments come across as very sycophantic which is a bit tiresome. That's not always the case though, so probably depends to some extent on the channel's community.

Yes, this. I’m sure many creators are happy to get a pile of praise, but it’s completely useless to me to pull up the comments on a video and see 90% “Wow, ur amazing. This is true talent!”

The video often is amazing! The talent is many times top-notch! But I pine for the days of Slashdot, with their categorized moderation. You could hide all the “+5 funny” comments and only see the interesting or insightful ones.

In the case of machining videos, I want to see how others solved an issue the video dealt with. Or alternative tools that could do the same thing cheaper. These comments do exist, but are often buried. And Google only lets you see additional comments in little dribbles.

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