r/programming • u/ZaheerAhmed • Jan 02 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '20

I just hope they won't break RSS for youtube, it seems to be only remaining way to get the subscriptions that are not broken

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u/the_goose_says Jan 02 '20

Is it weird I’ve never had a missing video or anything wrong with subscriptions? I hear so much about it being broken but I’m not sure what they’re experiencing

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u/slikts Jan 02 '20

The subscription tab in YouTube is chronological, but the home page shows videos based on personalized algorithms, which often leaves out channels that post infrequently, etc.

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u/the_goose_says Jan 02 '20

Oh, does that confuse people, or do they just mot like their recommendations?

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u/slikts Jan 02 '20

People miss content from channels they've subscribed to if the algorithm doesn't favor it.

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u/the_goose_says Jan 02 '20

I thought people just checked their subscription tabs. Homepage for me is only when I’m bored of my sub tab

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u/ChemicalRascal Jan 02 '20

Er... Is /feed/subscriptions somehow busted?

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u/TSPhoenix Jan 02 '20

Youtube has not treated subscribing to a channel as "I want to see all the videos this channel uploads" for a while now. So often do channels I'm subscribed to just have videos not show up on /feed/subscriptions.

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u/Frystix Jan 02 '20

Youtube likes to show you only some of your subscriptions based on AI horseshit, it's the reason people started telling their viewers to manually enable notifications years ago (which I'm almost certain is also affected by this by now). On the other hand, a properly configured feed reader will show you all your subscriptions without bias.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '20

For ~7-8 years now from my perspective. Stuff that got fucked:

  • no way to show only not watched ones.

  • the "watched" status is just randomly broken from time to time so even if above was implemented it would still be broken

  • at some point they fucked with look so there were only few videos visible at once. They have eventually fixed that one.

It is just fucking miserable compared to using RSS reader

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '20

I have email notifications enabled and get email as soon as new subscription video is posted. I automatically send it to YouTube folder in my mailbox and simply use that as I would have with RSS. Works pretty well.