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If you care enough about someone's videos to have discussions about them, something like Discord seems like a much better platform for those discussions than a
by JoshTriplett 3y ago
If you care enough about someone's videos to have discussions about them, something like Discord seems like a much better platform for those discussions than a video's comments section. The value of YouTube comments is the ability to easily link to specific mm:ss timestamps, and that could be had with a chat service that creates a thread for each video and auto-links text of the form mm:ss (as well as a "copy video link with timestamp" option on the video host).
- tentacleuno 3y agoI don't know. Saying Discord, a chronological text service, is a good replacement for YouTube comments is like saying Matrix would replace Hacker News. The main advantage of YouTube comments is being able to gauge the temperature of a video. If the top comment's bad, the video probably isn't great. Combine that with dislikes and you have a semi-decent QC system. (re: dislikes, Return YouTube Dislikes is a great extension.)
- JoshTriplett 3y agoIf the top comment is bad, the video author probably doesn't delete comments.
- pseudalopex 3y agoWhat is your point? They didn't say the video is good if the top comment is good.