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Too bad the YouTube TV viewing experience sucks. Don't get me wrong, I've been a subscriber for a very long time, and I get a lot of great content there. But
by linsomniac 1y ago
Too bad the YouTube TV viewing experience sucks.
Don't get me wrong, I've been a subscriber for a very long time, and I get a lot of great content there. But going there to watch something specific, or watching a TV series, really sucks.
I recently realized a few studios (IIRC Warner Bros and Paramount) had put a lot of content there including movies and TV shows. I decided to watch Dick Van Dyke, because I'm a Carl Reiner fan. You can't really "Watch Next" a TV show and then go in to watch the next episode. And in fact sometimes it just wants to show you the shows in a non-linear order. "I want to watch the next Dick Van Dyke" is not something that YouTube makes easy. Another example, a friend recent sent me The Chit Show, I opened the playlist of the shows, and it played them in the reverse order (which I didn't really understand until the end when I realized I was on the first episode).
Also, the YouTube algorithm for suggesting things for you to watch is really bad. It gets stuck in ruts and it's hard to get out of them.
YouTube is amazing for learning DIY things, which is a large part of why I have subscribed for so long. But for watching entertainment the whole UI really just doesn't work.
- eliasbagley 1y ago[flagged]
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- wpm 1y agoDo you work for the YouTube UX team? What’s the deal with this incredibly out of pocket snarky reply to a list of genuine and reasonable gripes?
- umeshunni 1y ago> You can't really "Watch Next" a TV show and then go in to watch the next episode. From the article: A coming YouTube feature, called “shows,” can automatically queue the next episode on a channel, rather than serving whatever the recommendation algorithm thinks you’ll like best from billions of options.
- nikanj 1y agoAnd the Watch Next always insists on showing me some crazed anti-jew, anti-wax misogynistic conspiracy horseshit after three episodes of Dick Van Dyke. You can't even block creators on Youtube to make sure their content is not autoplayed or recommended to you