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As a user, for me, YouTube has been shrinking ever since the first adpocalypse. By that I mean I rarely see new videos or relevant recommendations. It is all st
by hknmtt 3y ago
As a user, for me, YouTube has been shrinking ever since the first adpocalypse. By that I mean I rarely see new videos or relevant recommendations. It is all stale content and pages only couple of pages instead of going infinite like it used to. My most visited page is home page which shows recommended content(it used to be on a dedicated page) and I literally see the same content for days, rarely with new videos. And I have hundreds of subscribed channels. Youtube is a living corpse, I do not care what numbers they put out in the public.
- iamflimflam1 3y agoGo to the subscribed page and watch the channels you subscribed to. The home page is whatever YouTube is pushing you to watch - it’s not necessarily what you want to watch…
- internet101010 3y agoYeah some people never do that for some reason. I have a simple little tampermonkey script set up to automatically just redirect me to my subscriptions when I go to the home page on accident.
- falsaberN1 3y agoFunny, for me it's the opposite, I hardly ever set foot outside of my subcriptions page except for searching, which is how I find new channels to add to subs.
- realusername 3y agoThat's what I was about to comment, 13 billion videos and the same 10 videos recommended in a loop, what a product failure.
- Xiol32 3y agoYouTube also seems to forget what videos I've watched, so I end up having videos recommended to me that I've already seen.
- layer8 3y agoPeople rewatch a lot, so YouTube is suggesting what it thinks you might likely be inclined to rewatch, based on what other people rewatch.
- jessekv 3y agoNot that surprising. 13 billion videos is a lot cheaper to host when everyone is only looking at 10 in a loop.
- realusername 3y agoThere's indeed a big difference of objective between YouTube and their users because of that. However, that's also an opportunity that YouTube hasn't realized yet, they could become a primary platform for content if they had a better algorithm and a better search, it would help them to monetize better those subscriptions. Youtube has one of the lowest per viewer revenue and the poor discovery isn't an accident in that.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoImagine a world where there are 13 billion videos and truly only 10 worth you watching. Are you sure you live so far from that world? My experience of YT is totally different, FWIW.
- realusername 3y agoI'm sure there's great content out there, it doesn't matter if I can't find it though. It's YouTube which thinks there's only 10 videos worth watching, not me.