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> In the absence of Stories, YouTube wants creators to instead post content to other surfaces on the platform: Community Posts and Shorts. There's a difference

> In the absence of Stories, YouTube wants creators to instead post content to other surfaces on the platform: Community Posts and Shorts. There's a difference between YouTube Stories and YouTube Shorts!? What's the difference? I legit thought they're the same thing.

wahnfrieden 3y ago
identical to ig: stories are ig stories (transient) shorts are reels (not transient) i've upvoted this article and encourage it
- hotpotamus 3y ago
  I feel like an old man, but I wonder, what's wrong with just using regular youtube to post a video of any length that you want and then deleting it if for some reason you really don't want it up anymore?
  - yamtaddle 3y ago
    1) There's automation for the "deleting it" part. 2) Viewers understand that the video is only temporarily available, without your having to tell them.
    - hotpotamus 3y ago
      I see - I suppose my problem is that I see disappearing videos as a problem rather than a feature. What's even more annoying to me are the spots on youtube lists I've created over the years that just say the video has been removed, but doesn't even tell me what it was that is gone.
TheAceOfHearts 3y ago
Stories are short videos that are only available for a limited amount of time (from a few hours to a couple days), while Shorts are regular videos with limited length. Instagram has both as well.
fullshark 3y ago
Stories was their Snapchat clone and Shorts is their TikTok clone.
- dabluecaboose 3y ago
  Dammit, I hate Shorts and I was hoping they were killing that. I exclusively use YT on a desktop computer so it's really annoying watching vertical video, not to mention the constant attempts to get me to start doomscrolling random content
  - ramraj07 3y ago
    Sucks to not be the target demographic then. Theres literally billions of people who use youtube every day on mobiles. Shorts is here to stay. Make peace with it I guess.
    - willnonya 3y ago
      I think you miss the point. Shorts aren't really suited to the desktop yet they're crammed in there. The format isn't really suited to YouTube in general. If they really wanted to compete with tiktok they'd spin shorts off to a separate app and tune their algorithm to those users without continuing to make YouTube worse while pandering to shorts.
BitwiseFool 3y ago
To me, they're the same thing: unwelcome.

wahnfrieden 3y ago

identical to ig: stories are ig stories (transient) shorts are reels (not transient) i've upvoted this article and encourage it

hotpotamus 3y ago
I feel like an old man, but I wonder, what's wrong with just using regular youtube to post a video of any length that you want and then deleting it if for some reason you really don't want it up anymore?
- yamtaddle 3y ago
  1) There's automation for the "deleting it" part. 2) Viewers understand that the video is only temporarily available, without your having to tell them.
  - hotpotamus 3y ago
    I see - I suppose my problem is that I see disappearing videos as a problem rather than a feature. What's even more annoying to me are the spots on youtube lists I've created over the years that just say the video has been removed, but doesn't even tell me what it was that is gone.

TheAceOfHearts 3y ago

Stories are short videos that are only available for a limited amount of time (from a few hours to a couple days), while Shorts are regular videos with limited length. Instagram has both as well.

fullshark 3y ago

Stories was their Snapchat clone and Shorts is their TikTok clone.

dabluecaboose 3y ago
Dammit, I hate Shorts and I was hoping they were killing that. I exclusively use YT on a desktop computer so it's really annoying watching vertical video, not to mention the constant attempts to get me to start doomscrolling random content
- ramraj07 3y ago
  Sucks to not be the target demographic then. Theres literally billions of people who use youtube every day on mobiles. Shorts is here to stay. Make peace with it I guess.
  - willnonya 3y ago
    I think you miss the point. Shorts aren't really suited to the desktop yet they're crammed in there. The format isn't really suited to YouTube in general. If they really wanted to compete with tiktok they'd spin shorts off to a separate app and tune their algorithm to those users without continuing to make YouTube worse while pandering to shorts.

BitwiseFool 3y ago

To me, they're the same thing: unwelcome.