The ‘Subscribed’ section has gone pretty much untouched for almost 20 years. There is a highlights thing now but from there down it’s ONLY what you want.
They stopped fully populating your subscriptions back in… 2022ish? I want to say. To even see them all you have to use 3rd party software, or they’ll narrow the presented channels down based on a shitty calculation
I have heard that many times but have not observed it first hand, when a user posts after years of absence it shows up in my list. And when I remember a user that I have not seen in years and I check them directly there aren’t any videos that I have missed. Maybe they are doing something on a per-user basis to drive engagement.
What kind of channels do you sub to? Are they prone to saying things that are not censor-friendly, because that’s one of the big things that will cause it to drop them from your notifications.
The other is when people subscribe to a channel but haven’t watched recent releases while logged into your account. Youtube sees that as “well you’re subscribed to them, but like do you REALLY watch them?”
Almost exclusively maker/hacker/science guys with some animators/artists mixed in. Checking the users with the lowest subscriber counts they have either not posted in years or I have watched their most recent uploads :/
Okay. Those are guys who I assume would know what kind of stuff not to say to avoid getting their visibility messed with. I guess this is a thing that will tend to happen more to political and history commentators. But if you watch their videos while logged out for any reason, same deal across the board.
Offhandedly, Is there anyone that you would recommend to me?
Some of these guys rarely upload anymore but the stuff they have uploaded is brilliant. I tried to pick guys who are least likely to show up on the main-stream of recommendations.
I’ve heard that since 2018 or something like that. I heavily use subscriptions with dozens of very diverse and diverging channels and not once was a video not shown to me. Several friends say the same. My theory: People use the front page (not the subscribed page) thinking it’ll show all new videos from subscribed channels.
Not what happened to me. Creators I watch who say things that are unfriendly to advertising will just be missing from my literal subscriptions page where my subscribed channels are listed.
Other ones have stopped having their videos appear in my subscriptions page when they drop a new video if I didn’t watch previous ones when they released. FD Signifier and a few other channels have correlated this but I can only search for one lane of evidence right now and that’s a lot of video to go back through
Here’s some trouble shooting guides that were written recently to address this and also other people who correlate this exact behavior verbally affirming or providing screenshots they are on the correct page. There’s been at least one plugin made to address the problem, I completely stopped using youtube’s frontend because of it. 1234
If it hasn’t happened to you that’s great. Large websites like youtube and reddit don’t tend to implement these on everyone all at once. Or you just watch channels that don’t trigger the conditions, I have close to 200 that I’m subscribed to so it’s a crazy wide sample size. It ultimately correlates with youtube’s goals to move people from the subscription page into recommendations so they can be suggested more kinds of videos that are preferred by the company’s interests. While I was searching links to post I found that they recently ran a consumer test in may where they removed the subscription page entirelyfrom the app.
The ‘Subscribed’ section has gone pretty much untouched for almost 20 years. There is a highlights thing now but from there down it’s ONLY what you want.
They stopped fully populating your subscriptions back in… 2022ish? I want to say. To even see them all you have to use 3rd party software, or they’ll narrow the presented channels down based on a shitty calculation
I have heard that many times but have not observed it first hand, when a user posts after years of absence it shows up in my list. And when I remember a user that I have not seen in years and I check them directly there aren’t any videos that I have missed. Maybe they are doing something on a per-user basis to drive engagement.
What kind of channels do you sub to? Are they prone to saying things that are not censor-friendly, because that’s one of the big things that will cause it to drop them from your notifications.
The other is when people subscribe to a channel but haven’t watched recent releases while logged into your account. Youtube sees that as “well you’re subscribed to them, but like do you REALLY watch them?”
Almost exclusively maker/hacker/science guys with some animators/artists mixed in. Checking the users with the lowest subscriber counts they have either not posted in years or I have watched their most recent uploads :/
Okay. Those are guys who I assume would know what kind of stuff not to say to avoid getting their visibility messed with. I guess this is a thing that will tend to happen more to political and history commentators. But if you watch their videos while logged out for any reason, same deal across the board.
Offhandedly, Is there anyone that you would recommend to me?
Oh god damn, buckle up
https://www.youtube.com/@twoswap - awesome math guy
https://www.youtube.com/@alnwlsn - electronics, computers, maker stuff
https://www.youtube.com/@ancientjames - guy builds novel video displays from scratch
https://www.youtube.com/@AppliedScience - flat out smartest guy on he internet
https://www.youtube.com/@Attoparsec - hacky/computery/makey guy
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisStaecker - math instrument historian, also funny af
https://www.youtube.com/@DiffractionLimited - Build a um scale 3d printer
https://www.youtube.com/@dipdoting - build computer from relays
https://www.youtube.com/@YeanyScience - retired science teacher teaches you science
https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics - turns out you don’t know anything about optics, neither do i
https://www.youtube.com/@illinoisenergyprof6878 - learn about atomic power
https://www.youtube.com/@mikeselectricstuff - the original electronics youtuber
https://www.youtube.com/@okooptics - turns out you REALLY dont know anything about optics
https://www.youtube.com/@UsagiElectric - buid computers from the wires up
https://www.youtube.com/@wbeaty - the original science youtuber
Some of these guys rarely upload anymore but the stuff they have uploaded is brilliant. I tried to pick guys who are least likely to show up on the main-stream of recommendations.
HELL YEAH 😁 ty! I need stuff for when there’s lulls in my subscriptions. And if any of them come back, I guess we’ll both get to find out
I’ve heard that since 2018 or something like that. I heavily use subscriptions with dozens of very diverse and diverging channels and not once was a video not shown to me. Several friends say the same. My theory: People use the front page (not the subscribed page) thinking it’ll show all new videos from subscribed channels.
Not what happened to me. Creators I watch who say things that are unfriendly to advertising will just be missing from my literal subscriptions page where my subscribed channels are listed.
Other ones have stopped having their videos appear in my subscriptions page when they drop a new video if I didn’t watch previous ones when they released. FD Signifier and a few other channels have correlated this but I can only search for one lane of evidence right now and that’s a lot of video to go back through
Here’s some trouble shooting guides that were written recently to address this and also other people who correlate this exact behavior verbally affirming or providing screenshots they are on the correct page. There’s been at least one plugin made to address the problem, I completely stopped using youtube’s frontend because of it. 1 2 3 4
If it hasn’t happened to you that’s great. Large websites like youtube and reddit don’t tend to implement these on everyone all at once. Or you just watch channels that don’t trigger the conditions, I have close to 200 that I’m subscribed to so it’s a crazy wide sample size. It ultimately correlates with youtube’s goals to move people from the subscription page into recommendations so they can be suggested more kinds of videos that are preferred by the company’s interests. While I was searching links to post I found that they recently ran a consumer test in may where they removed the subscription page entirely from the app.