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There are multiple ways to solve your case: - set up an account with email notifications and use something like KillTheNewsletter to deliver them via RSS - set

by xz18r 3y ago

There are multiple ways to solve your case: - set up an account with email notifications and use something like KillTheNewsletter to deliver them via RSS - set up your own alternative YouTube frontend (or register for a public one like kavin.rocks) that supports RSS feeds. Things like Piped or Invidious support it iirc. - get an actual YouTube account and work with subscriptions. You support the channel you like with it and have everything in a handy overview. I am a big time RSS user but never took the time to move it all over there, been using the subscriptions page as my YouTube “homepage” for a decade now and it works for me.

happytoexplain 3y ago
- KillTheNewsletter Looks like I'd have to make a YouTube account for every channel to get separate feeds, or else combine every channel into one big feed. - subscriptions Similarly, it looks like this is just one big list of videos from every channel, with only a handful fitting on screen at once, and they don't go away once I've watched/clicked on the video, so there's no concept of read/unread. It also means I would have yet another aggregation webpage I periodically visit, as opposed to having most of my information feed in two places (one tab for email and one tab for RSS). - set up your own alternative This is currently outside my skillset, but it may ultimately be the direction I go in (if the outage isn't just a bug). Thanks for these nouns - I can use them to get started.
- EvanAnderson 3y ago
  I'm pretty much in the same boat as you-- all my YouTube consumption has been thru my self-hosted RSS reader. I really like read/unread for all my "media" (blogs, YouTube, etc) in a single place. All those alternatives sound bad to me. I suppose in the short term I will cobble something together w/ yt-dlp to download JSON from YouTube and ETL that into the tt-rss database. That'll work until Google decides it doesn't, too.

by xz18r 3y ago

happytoexplain 3y ago

- KillTheNewsletter Looks like I'd have to make a YouTube account for every channel to get separate feeds, or else combine every channel into one big feed. - subscriptions Similarly, it looks like this is just one big list of videos from every channel, with only a handful fitting on screen at once, and they don't go away once I've watched/clicked on the video, so there's no concept of read/unread. It also means I would have yet another aggregation webpage I periodically visit, as opposed to having most of my information feed in two places (one tab for email and one tab for RSS). - set up your own alternative This is currently outside my skillset, but it may ultimately be the direction I go in (if the outage isn't just a bug). Thanks for these nouns - I can use them to get started.

EvanAnderson 3y ago
I'm pretty much in the same boat as you-- all my YouTube consumption has been thru my self-hosted RSS reader. I really like read/unread for all my "media" (blogs, YouTube, etc) in a single place. All those alternatives sound bad to me. I suppose in the short term I will cobble something together w/ yt-dlp to download JSON from YouTube and ETL that into the tt-rss database. That'll work until Google decides it doesn't, too.