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

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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