> What kind of lunatic watches someone's uploads out of chronological order? For some type of channels such as latest technology reviews or news commentary, t

> What kind of lunatic watches someone's uploads out of chronological order? For some type of channels such as latest technology reviews or news commentary, the sort by "Oldest" isn't as critical because the older vids have less and less value as time goes by. The default of showing the most recent newest vids works ok for that. E.g. sorting MKBHD tech channel[1] by Oldest would have brought up the old 2008 videos when he was a teenager reviewing products that are long obsolete. Good for nostalgia but not relevant to getting the latest info on Pixel 7 and Android 13 in 2022. With sort in chronological order, you'd have to hit the PgDn key a hundred times before you scroll down to the 2022 videos. That said, I personally used sort by Oldest all the time. E.g. I find a random house construction video so sort the channel vids by Oldest to start at the beginning where they cleared the land and poured the foundation. >I don't care how restrictive they make the API, they can't stop me from writing a "start from oldest" extension that gives you a button to just automatically scroll to the bottom. Last time I tried this, Youtube had unstated rate limits for pulling lots of metadata like that. I did some experiments on music channels that had thousands of vids and both the API and manual UI (automate press PgDn key repeatedly) had invisible rate limiting where you couldn't reach the oldest vids. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/mkbhd/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/mkbhd/videos