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Technical note out of purely personal experience: platforms suck at managing subscriptions (ux-wise) when you’re a viewer, so I unsubscribe if there is no conte
by wruza 4y ago
Technical note out of purely personal experience: platforms suck at managing subscriptions (ux-wise) when you’re a viewer, so I unsubscribe if there is no content for a while.
I don’t do this for websites. I have hundreds of bookmarks which I reorganize a couple of times a year and may visit when I have nothing to do. But I never had hundreds of e.g. youtube subscriptions, because youtube ui just sucks. I cannot categorize them. I cannot pin them down in the list that they bs_sort() randomly so you can’t find things. It’s basically useless and only serves as a pile.
And if you dare to subscribe-as-a-bookmark, it will pile up your feed as well.
No surprise then I keep it at 15 channels max and remove those that I have no reason to visit in just a week. I watch some of the top streamers / video makers occasionally without subscribing, because of that. I just remember them and watch when I remember to. But when you’re smaller than 0.01% it means you basically lost a viewer.
This doesn’t apply to twitch exactly, but still in the same category. I’ve visited it for a while and left because it sucks even more as a webapp.
- Adverblessly 4y agoYouTube supports RSS for both Channels and Playlists[1] , so my YouTube "subscriptions" are all just RSS subscriptions. I don't ever even visit YouTube while signed in. You can also create subscriptions for Twitch VODs via the unofficial twitchrss.appspot.com This then lets me organize my "subscriptions" in a nice UI :) [1] - They used to, but AFAICT no longer support setting a urlparam of order when fetching the RSS feed of a playlist. For some playlists the natural ordering is chronological, but for some it is reverse chronological, so RSS only works for "half" of playlists...
- cableshaft 4y agoI concur. Twitch and Youtube subscription management is pretty garbage. I end up relying more on 'most current viewers' for my Twitch list than I'd like just because trying to manage it any other way is too much of a hassle. Every once in a while I unsubscribe from a bunch of people I normally would stay subscribed to, just to pare that list down and make some of the lower viewer streamers (that I'm still interested in) more likely to show up in the list, but that's a crap way to do it.