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Just because the site is popular doesn't mean the codebase is big. It's a simple site. I could probably write YouTube in Go in an afternoon and I don't even k

by nilved 10y ago

Just because the site is popular doesn't mean the codebase is big. It's a simple site. I could probably write YouTube in Go in an afternoon and I don't even know Go.

zardeh 10y ago
You could perhaps write a feature-bare clone. Here's some basic features: - search (the various search pages) - trending - channels - subscription - video uploads - history - comments - likes - upload - video editing (most of this is in browser, but still) - livestream - video analytics - payment and ad management - video comment review and moderation - translation - captioning - video replication, multiscaling, caching, and resolution management based on network speed - video recommendation - cards, overlays, annotations, etc. - music and sound effect search - antispam - dmca and copyright tooling And that was 5 minutes of poking around.
- X-Istence 10y ago
  > resolution management based on network speed Not so much a feature of YouTube as it is a feature of HLS/Dash... but yes, it means you've gotta transcode the source video into multiple different bitrates.
  - zardeh 10y ago
    Even outside of that, I can override the bitrate in some instances. But yeah, I was mainly talking about the necessary replication, cache, and transcoding (and I actually forgot about the multiple codecs, which they also provide, in addition to multiple resolutions/bitrates)
petters 10y ago
This comment made me wonder what you consider to be a complex site.
- nilved 10y ago
  Not a video host with comments. That's practically CRUD. A very solved problem.
  - orf 10y ago
    Well, go on then, why spend just an afternoon when you could spend 5 whole days. Make a YouTube that's 10x better, host it from your closet and watch the megabucks roll in as you take down Google.
  - randomdata 10y ago
    But, really, what site cannot be boiled down to practically CRUD? That does not help us understand what you believe is a complex site. Is this supposed to be some kind of no true Scotsman?
kristianp 10y ago
See "Code: It's Trivial" https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/

by nilved 10y ago

Just because the site is popular doesn't mean the codebase is big. It's a simple site. I could probably write YouTube in Go in an afternoon and I don't even know Go.

zardeh 10y ago

You could perhaps write a feature-bare clone. Here's some basic features: - search (the various search pages) - trending - channels - subscription - video uploads - history - comments - likes - upload - video editing (most of this is in browser, but still) - livestream - video analytics - payment and ad management - video comment review and moderation - translation - captioning - video replication, multiscaling, caching, and resolution management based on network speed - video recommendation - cards, overlays, annotations, etc. - music and sound effect search - antispam - dmca and copyright tooling And that was 5 minutes of poking around.

X-Istence 10y ago
> resolution management based on network speed Not so much a feature of YouTube as it is a feature of HLS/Dash... but yes, it means you've gotta transcode the source video into multiple different bitrates.
- zardeh 10y ago
  Even outside of that, I can override the bitrate in some instances. But yeah, I was mainly talking about the necessary replication, cache, and transcoding (and I actually forgot about the multiple codecs, which they also provide, in addition to multiple resolutions/bitrates)

petters 10y ago

This comment made me wonder what you consider to be a complex site.

nilved 10y ago
Not a video host with comments. That's practically CRUD. A very solved problem.
- orf 10y ago
  Well, go on then, why spend just an afternoon when you could spend 5 whole days. Make a YouTube that's 10x better, host it from your closet and watch the megabucks roll in as you take down Google.
- randomdata 10y ago
  But, really, what site cannot be boiled down to practically CRUD? That does not help us understand what you believe is a complex site. Is this supposed to be some kind of no true Scotsman?

kristianp 10y ago

See "Code: It's Trivial" https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/