Hacker News Reader

Comment by taylodl | Hacker News Reader

As a subscriber I can attest that YouTube is an awful platform. Your subscriptions stop appearing on your home page, apparently unless you're checking in on a daily basis. So if it's not creating the content creator's needs and it's not supporting the subscriber's needs then who's needs are being served? Is Google the only entity benefiting from this?

View on HN

I have been using https://www.inoreader.com (I'm not affiliated) to manage all of my YouTube subscriptions, and I deleted my Google account. It used to be Feedly but they butchered the UI and even removed some features. How long until my RSS feeds gets scroogled too? https://twitter.com/Inoreader/status/829628234337808384

I got tired of videos not showing up, stupid paid promotions that I would NEVER watch or click getting in the way of automated playlists (workaround is: &list=UL). I need extensions just to make the thing not drive me crazy. And now most of the extensions will stop working because of the new material theme.

> Is Google the only entity benefiting from this?

I think so. The latest changes that favor people uploading long videos everyday have been especially bad as a user. This has resulted in short, informative videos like CCPGrey's are now less likely to be recommended than daily, hour long rants and a lot of my feeds are now updating daily whether they have anything worthwhile to say or not. That and pirated content is being recommended to me a lot more.

Yes, I noticed the other day that one of my subscribed channels somehow had become unsubscribed?

Not sure what's going on there, have other people had this happen to them?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com