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YouTube removes community contributions, captions and subtitles unavailable

• brudgers 6y ago
  Email text as reported: We're writing to let you know that, as of September 28, 2020 you will no longer be able to use the community contributions feature on YouTube. Both creators and viewers have reported problems with the community contributions feature, including spam, abuse, and low quality submissions. As a result, the feature is rarely used with less than 0.001% of channels having published community captions (showing on less than 0.2% of watch time) in the last month. Instead, creators are using YouTube's alternative captioning tools. For background, YouTube is committed to helping creators reach a wide audience and improving accessibility for everyone. One of the ways we do this is by providing high-quality captioning and subtitle tools. There are three ways to add captions to videos: 1. Creator uploaded captions 2. Automatic captions provided by YouTube 3. Captions provided by the community (also known as community contributions). You have until 9/28 to publish your community contributions before they're removed. After this date, the feature will no longer be available. Already published community caption tracks will still be accessible. For more information, check out this help center article. Sincerely, The YouTube Team What is glossed over is that "0.2% of watch time" is 2,000,000 hours per day.