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I just find them to be dumb. 50% of my recommendations are videos I've already watched.

by leetcrew 6y ago

lostmsu 6y ago
That's because there's not really that much great content on YouTube.
- pjc50 6y ago
  There is undoubtedly more great content than one could watch in a lifetime on youtube. The challenge is to identify and find it among the thousand lifetimes of trash.
93po 6y ago
I have this problem too. It's stuff I've watched or it's stuff I've scrolled past uninterested in a dozen times. Basically the only time I casually find something I want to watch is when a subscription uploads new content
pimlottc 6y ago
I wouldn't mind this as much if YouTube were better about indicating which ones you've watched. In theory you can just look for the little red bar under the thumbnail but they seem to "forget" after a while. This makes it tricky to go through the backlog of a channel's content without watching it all in order. Sure, at first any random video will be new to you, but eventually you will start seeing more and more repeats, forcing you to start choosing videos more methodically from the videos page. Even then, it's tricky when the ones you've seen are not always marked consistently. It doesn't seem like too much data to story for a company that offers gigs of free email. (And no, I don't have a auto-deletion policy set up, I just double-checked)
pjc50 6y ago
It could really benefit from a simple "suggest things I've already seen y/n" UI toggle. Sometimes you do want it to do that, such as for music, but most of the time you don't.
monkeypizza 6y ago
This just changed about two weeks ago, right? The rate of suggested rewatches went up from like 5% to 20% for me. And surprisingly, it seems not to have tracked or not be displaying that I've seen it before (with the red progress bar on the thumbnail). I agree this is a bad change, especially deceiving me about my watch history. This was around the time they changed the mobile progress bar behavior to require dragging to advance, rather than allowing you to jump to the point you select (i.e. away from the model used by the android brightness slider).

I just find them to be dumb. 50% of my recommendations are videos I've already watched.

lostmsu 6y ago

That's because there's not really that much great content on YouTube.

pjc50 6y ago
There is undoubtedly more great content than one could watch in a lifetime on youtube. The challenge is to identify and find it among the thousand lifetimes of trash.

93po 6y ago

I have this problem too. It's stuff I've watched or it's stuff I've scrolled past uninterested in a dozen times. Basically the only time I casually find something I want to watch is when a subscription uploads new content

pimlottc 6y ago

I wouldn't mind this as much if YouTube were better about indicating which ones you've watched. In theory you can just look for the little red bar under the thumbnail but they seem to "forget" after a while. This makes it tricky to go through the backlog of a channel's content without watching it all in order. Sure, at first any random video will be new to you, but eventually you will start seeing more and more repeats, forcing you to start choosing videos more methodically from the videos page. Even then, it's tricky when the ones you've seen are not always marked consistently. It doesn't seem like too much data to story for a company that offers gigs of free email. (And no, I don't have a auto-deletion policy set up, I just double-checked)

pjc50 6y ago

It could really benefit from a simple "suggest things I've already seen y/n" UI toggle. Sometimes you do want it to do that, such as for music, but most of the time you don't.

monkeypizza 6y ago

This just changed about two weeks ago, right? The rate of suggested rewatches went up from like 5% to 20% for me. And surprisingly, it seems not to have tracked or not be displaying that I've seen it before (with the red progress bar on the thumbnail). I agree this is a bad change, especially deceiving me about my watch history. This was around the time they changed the mobile progress bar behavior to require dragging to advance, rather than allowing you to jump to the point you select (i.e. away from the model used by the android brightness slider).