Something I removed from my latest video which I now regret removing was the fact that YouTube uploaders can choose to prevent a video from appearing in the Subscriptions feed.
If we uncheck "Publish to subscriptions feed and notify subscribers" during the upload process... it won't go to subs.
If we uncheck "Publish to subscriptions feed and notify subscribers" during the upload process... it won't go to subs.
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Curate your feed to make it better by unsubbing from people you don't actively watch.
And try casting videos from your phone to your TV. You can build up a queue of videos by clicking the hamburger menu next to video titles and adding to "up next"
The casting thing... I never use it (except for music). Maybe I should.
Most every smart TV with a YT app supports casting from a phone without signing into the TV.
I was amazed by your stats showing how few others actually use it.
I would honestly hate using YouTube with out it.
the subscription page is my main way to use YouTube.
which is why I always found it extremely weird when you'd see people in some random video comment stuff like "your video didn't show up for me".
Like every 24 hours have all videos from a channel be with in one video tiles on the list.
I also hate shorts so would love to remove those.
You can on a pc, with a YouTube extension. But I am now using a fire stick.
I mostly just use the desktop/ TV interface though.
On the one hand, I like the pressure to get to the effing point quickly.
On the other hand, TURNING A PHONE SIDEWAYS IS NOT HARD. Every video should be landscape.
SNL does this and only selects a few to go to the subs feed. Otherwise the notifications can be annoying and/or all the vids can clutter the feed.
Maybe instead a single creator's actions shouldn't trigger more than one notification per day? That'd be better if @thomasfuchs.at's suggestion above happened too.
you might want only the full video to go out to your subscribers so they don't get a bunch of duplicate videos clogging up their subscription feeds
(i don't remember the context of this conversation, so this might be less than useless informations... but rar)
Just my personal experience tho
I recall seeing mention of that for why a lot avoid checking it.
The reasoning is that, if you are getting mostly subscriber views and not growing, not sending to the sub box actually gets it recommended to non-subscribers more.
Views from subscriber notifications don’t count towards engagement or determine if it will be pushed to new audiences or not.
Source: got to ask Todd B in person about this, head of YouTube recommendations 😄
It seems that having it disabled was basically pushing it to the feeds of more active and new viewers rather than the sub feed of dead accounts and people who no longer watch you.
More and more we forget about “intentionality”. Use your agency. Like things you like. How dystopian.
Also leading horses to water and all that. God speed to you.
If I wanted short form vertical video, I'd download tiktok. It's annoying how many browser extensions or third party apps I have to use to get shorts off of my feeds. And it's annoying how every platform thinks it has to do everything.
https://christitus.com/remove-youtube-shorts/
Keep in mind tho, those are *cosmetic* blocks, ie page elements are just hidden. Your browser will still load yt's related scripts but at least the section won't be in your way.
That should probably change, but I don't know how to square the circle.
They can totally suggest stuff based only on your subscriptions.
But I guess they realised they can extract more attention time by pushing us to give them more data.
But I am grateful for those that do upload in mass and turn this off for their subs
I think the move away from pull technology to a push model is a big contributor to the issues you identified.
More than half of my Watch Later is from my sub box, and it's only that low because I naturally prioritize creators I subbed to watch
My solution in this case is to right-click and open in a new tab if on desktop so that when I'm done, I can go back to the list where I left off.
Lots of folks think this is some intentional choice of YouTube's and not the uploader's (same misconception goes for ad placement...)
Tier 1: everything
Tier 2: main videos only
Tier 3: none / announcements only
If you then let both the creator select where their content should go, and the viewer select what tier they want >per channel< they could fix a lot of that.
and a way to just take me to a channel with a single click/tap from there.
Each channel would get have a horizontal row, and their newest videos would appear on the left of that row.
The rows themselves would be organized by channels that uploaded recently. It worked well!
@pbsnews.org
Getting the rss link of each channel is very well hidden, but there are lots of instructions online on how to reconstruct them
Implementing that would clean it all up so nicely.
There you can divide your feeds into different groups, in addition to all the other good stuff it let's you.
https://grayjay.app/
There's something about adapting to imperfect interfaces which I didn't touch on...
You are in control of that feed. Don't let others ruin its usefulness.
I was staying subscribed to a person who had been a reasonable fellow but had become this sulking ball of hate in toy fandom to see what he was complaining about
Rarely, someone will leave a remark on a big blog asking them to stop posting in xyz ways and the entire community shames them for not just unfollowing.
I just... I get really uncomfortable when folks treat an interface which doesn't work exactly how they think it *should* as unusable.
Still wish YouTube grouped subscriptions though.
but i am interested in what you write
maybe you can suggest to me how to translate your texts without using google translator, please
To be a bit nit picky, there's a problem with you're analysis of your YT metrics in your last vid.
The population of users that aren't subscribed to you is far bigger than those that are, therefore I would expect most views to not come from the subscription page.
Little rewards for people who search through my videos.
And you always have the option to visit channels manually or even bookmark them!
That was my reason, others might differ, etc.
P.s.: I only ever use the subs feed.
…I mean you’re not wrong BUT STILL
I gotta say the video was pretty moving. It's the first time I haven't seen a blooper on the main channel.. and yeah it's because of the nature of the video.
I dunno. It's just saddening that we're in this state.
I really can't make friends in real life for some reason. Probably because I don't do "stuff" normal people do.
Again, great stuff man, especially that video about the Pinball machine! I've yet to rewatch that cos there was a heck of a lot of information. I'm looking forward for sum more tech stuff!
I periodically go there and open a ton of tabs to catch up on videos I haven’t seen yet.
If it’s not there, I won’t see it.
You probably didn't see it but I'm sorry. I hope you didn't. You seem like a nice guy & I like your content
Warms my heart to see a sincere apology.
Some companies will need to upload multiple ad versions or different promo videos, to cycle possible campaigns with. Publishing those to subscribers doesn’t make any sense, so there’s an option to disable that.
I consume a lot of YouTube content, but I only ever use the Subscription feed. I’ve never ever used a creator’s page to look or find things unless I’m trying to find an old video I’ve already seen (and likely discovered from the Sub feed)
I wonder how much enjoyment I’ve missed out on.