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Why's everyone having so much trouble following youtube channels?
| Yeah I don’t get it either
| All of my subscriptions appear just fine, and if they don’t I just go to their YouTube page, it’s not that hard
| It's a mystery!
| Exurb1a, Shammy and Every Frame a Painting.
| Yep I completely miss read the title... Wtf
| What, with the bell thing? YT is set up to only sponsor videos of channels you've shown active interest in, while also trying to promote new content. To say the least, the algorithm is buggy as hell. The bell is just an override to display content from a channel despite what the algorithm thinks you'll want to watch. It also sends out push notifications to connected devices, so users can know ASAP if a new video is out. It's all geared toward users subbed to 100+ channels.
| >>187904 sponsor videos?... wait do people seriously only look at the reccomended videos section and not their actual subscriptions? Is that it? Is that the problem? Does the bell replace said reccomended videos, or did you mean something else by sponsored videos?
| Youtube's suggested videos are certainly biased for financial reasons.. But to say that the algorithm is buggy is wrong, it's doing it's job, it just wasn't programmed with you in mind.
With that said, a lot of people are trying to understand what it's actually programmed to do by reverse engineering the code.
I guess the bell puts a user-generated bias on suggested videos, but that probably based on video genre more than actual content.
| >>187934 No, I meant the recommended page. YT has really pushed that to the forefront, and unfortunately most people just use programs and services without looking into them further. The bell doesn't replace them, but it is an extra step implemented by YT to push all content from a channel to subscribers. Say you watch an animator who only posts once a year. Unless you cnstantly rewatch videos, the algorithm will eventually deem you're not interested in the channel after--
| Personally, I've never had any issues that people have supposedly been talking about. I click those three bars on the top left, scroll to see if there's a number next to the channel that indicates there's a new video, and bam.
I guess the issue is some want notifications as soon as the video is uploaded. I just check if there's anything new to my leisure so I guess that's why.
| -- a period of time. To my knowledge, the bell is only an override for notifications.
>>187981 Buggy was a poor choice of words. Experimental would be an understatement, but it's the best way to describe it. Considering nobody has really done the YT platform prior, it's doing well. I just get baffled by the recommendations it provides based off outlier videos is all.
| Use RSS for subscription feed and download videos with youtube-dl on demand.
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| I mean... You just scroll through https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
Right? Why're all them youtubers wanting me to get shit sent to my email or whatever like I can't manage my shit on my own.
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Maybe I'm missing something or how most people use youtube or whatever.