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Because YT reserved /playlist and not /playlists. They also haven't reserved /watchs or /watched. People will quickly realize that /playlists loads some random
by judge2020 3y ago
Because YT reserved /playlist and not /playlists. They also haven't reserved /watchs or /watched.
People will quickly realize that /playlists loads some random channel they don't care about and will click away.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoHonestly I'm surprised that YT would let users have anything like a top level path; I'd expect it to be all youtube.com/u/myuser/$FOO where FOO can be a video or playlist or whatever.
- judge2020 3y agoI have to imagine it's for backwards compatibility. Seems to have been a choice made in 2008[0] if not before, although new handles are primarily accessible via `/@handle`. 0: https://web.archive.org/web/20080501135434/https://www.youtube.com/fred https://web.archive.org/web/20080501135434/https://www.youtu...
- judge2020 3y agoTo add: the top video only has 10k views over 2 months. YT is watched by billions of people every day, 5k people a month accidentally going to /playlists probably isn't worth the cost of kicking back their username and paying the engineers to make the commit reserving that url.