My god i cant find anything unless i type out an exact name of the video, recommendations under currently watched videos and just in general are the same no matter what. It feels like a lottery when you hope that youtube will bless you with content that you were searching for. Im aware that im ranting but i just cant with it anymore. All they had to do is just leave things how they were and not gut an algorithm that worked just fine before. I recently used bilibili and the contrast is painful. Like WHAT??? A related but not seen before video/thumbnail??? Under a video of the same nature??? What a brilliant idea!!!
Youtube for the last few years has been web devs tryign to fuck up the platform by making unnecessary changes.
Uplaod alerts have always worked poorly, Search has been turned junk, Recommendations are pretty shit (a mode for “recommend from my subscriptions” or “recommend new creators” would be appreciated), Downvote being removed from sight, Age restriction works like shit, UI has been degrading for a while.
They used to work flawlessly, back when I would receive an email for each upload. I could see the thumbnail, read the title, and decide whether or not it interested me.
But then, I’m sure some bean counter looked at the metrics and said: “the user isn’t visiting every day when we send them these emails! Stop sending these emails so they have to come to the website!”
an email for each upload? too much load on the system tbh. it would be easily 50+ a day for me
Email is async. It’s a suitable system for continuous, large batches of notifications.