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Content discovery sucks nowadays. The search results bring up mostly bigger channels instead of relevant ones. Recommendations are based on view history and lik
by ManlyBread 9y ago
Content discovery sucks nowadays. The search results bring up mostly bigger channels instead of relevant ones. Recommendations are based on view history and likes, which means you get more of the same instead of someting new. I constantly get videos I've seen already in my recommendations, these stay there for weeks until I click on them.
The major feature I used for discovery is long gone - it was the ability to add video responses, which allowed me to not only find small, niche channels with great stuff but also built a sense of community. I don't get why did they remove this,but ever since they did the site just never felt the same.
- james-skemp 9y agoI don't know if it actually does anything (yet), but you can hide videos from results. I mainly use it for videos I'm not interested in instead of ones that I've already seen (albeit it a while ago).
- nyxxie 9y agoI'm not sure there's an algorithm in the world that would be able to recommend videos that aren't similar to the ones you currently watch but that you would still like. I think the best route is to just reccomend videos that are similar and rely on external sources (friend/community recommendations, Reddit, etc) for lateral movement across genres.
- etatoby 9y agoI can recommend OReilly's book Collective Intelligence. It shows several ways to get useful recommendation feeds from existing databases, irrespective of the similarity of content.
- Consultant32452 9y agoI've noticed a growing pattern in Youtube land. I'll watch a video of of some event, maybe a talk given by a professor. Then a week or so later I'll get a suggestion to watch the same exact talk which has been uploaded by a different user, perhaps with some minor video modification to trip up duplication filters or something. It's really lowering the quality of my suggestion feed.
- Houshalter 9y agoAt least you are getting content from other channels. It seems like all my recommendations are to videos from the last few channels I have watched. Never anything I haven't heard of before. Even most of the channels I subscribe to never show up in my feed. It's the old exploration vs exploitation tradeoff. Most recommendation algorithms are highly optimized for exploitation and not exploration.
- flamedoge 9y agothis is what frustrates me