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My God, get a grip. Go outside.

Baliw 13y ago
I haven't seen her channel, but she speaks of 'building a brand'. She's obviously either making a living or attempting to make a living off her content. It's not an over-reaction at all on her part. If you spent thousands of hours building a business and then destroyed all your efforts, you'd be pretty pissed too. And it's not enough to just have backups of the content. She had a following. It's way more time consuming to create a following than to create the content.
DanBC 13y ago
She's just lost a bunch of content that she worked hard to produce. She's upset that the option labelled "Delete G+ content" also deleted, without warning, her YouTube channel. She had the YouTube channel before G+ existed. It seems like a legitimate complaint. Since some people work hard on their YouTube content, and rely on it for their income (I have no idea if it's the case for that user) it's upsetting when Google fucks them over with weird unhelpful UI. Google seems set on experimenting with fucking awful UI choices at the moment. I hope they stop soon, and realise that you do not improve access to the world's information by shitty god-awful unhelpful user interfaces. Google is crammed full of smart people who can design experiments and gather data. They also have a gajillion users. There's no excuse for the terrible state of the UI the Google puts out on some products. I know there are some Googlers reading HN, so gentle apologies to them. But good grief, when people start saying they prefer the UI of Pegasus you should know you've gone horribly wrong somewhere.
- staticfish 13y ago
  So she deletes her videos after uploading to youtube? I'm sorry- I know this won't be a popular opinion, but this whole thing seems melodramatic and ridiculous.
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  - DanBC 13y ago
    So, she lost many hours of work, and the results of that work, and the views and comments attached to that work, and the chance to continue to monetise that work, and all of that loss happened because Google didn't have adequate warnings? She can re-upload all the content, but she's lost all the comments and people are confused about why she's doing that and and and. I don't know where she is but uploading content can take ages.
michaelwww 13y ago
I sort of wanted to have your reaction, but while watching I felt her pain. She trusted cloud storage and got burned by a system without much fail-safety. The failure was partly hers if she didn't read the directions, but partly Google's for not at least putting up a warning before deleting YouTube videos. "Are you sure you want to delete YouTube content along with your Google+ account?" I read somewhere that Google wants people to stop thinking of YouTube as separate from Google+ (I wish I could remember where.) This seems like a harsh way to drive the lesson home.

Baliw 13y ago

I haven't seen her channel, but she speaks of 'building a brand'. She's obviously either making a living or attempting to make a living off her content. It's not an over-reaction at all on her part. If you spent thousands of hours building a business and then destroyed all your efforts, you'd be pretty pissed too. And it's not enough to just have backups of the content. She had a following. It's way more time consuming to create a following than to create the content.

DanBC 13y ago

She's just lost a bunch of content that she worked hard to produce. She's upset that the option labelled "Delete G+ content" also deleted, without warning, her YouTube channel. She had the YouTube channel before G+ existed. It seems like a legitimate complaint. Since some people work hard on their YouTube content, and rely on it for their income (I have no idea if it's the case for that user) it's upsetting when Google fucks them over with weird unhelpful UI. Google seems set on experimenting with fucking awful UI choices at the moment. I hope they stop soon, and realise that you do not improve access to the world's information by shitty god-awful unhelpful user interfaces. Google is crammed full of smart people who can design experiments and gather data. They also have a gajillion users. There's no excuse for the terrible state of the UI the Google puts out on some products. I know there are some Googlers reading HN, so gentle apologies to them. But good grief, when people start saying they prefer the UI of Pegasus you should know you've gone horribly wrong somewhere.

staticfish 13y ago
So she deletes her videos after uploading to youtube? I'm sorry- I know this won't be a popular opinion, but this whole thing seems melodramatic and ridiculous.
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- DanBC 13y ago
  So, she lost many hours of work, and the results of that work, and the views and comments attached to that work, and the chance to continue to monetise that work, and all of that loss happened because Google didn't have adequate warnings? She can re-upload all the content, but she's lost all the comments and people are confused about why she's doing that and and and. I don't know where she is but uploading content can take ages.

michaelwww 13y ago

I sort of wanted to have your reaction, but while watching I felt her pain. She trusted cloud storage and got burned by a system without much fail-safety. The failure was partly hers if she didn't read the directions, but partly Google's for not at least putting up a warning before deleting YouTube videos. "Are you sure you want to delete YouTube content along with your Google+ account?" I read somewhere that Google wants people to stop thinking of YouTube as separate from Google+ (I wish I could remember where.) This seems like a harsh way to drive the lesson home.