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A comment on YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels.

Re:YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued acr... by llacb47 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:40PM (#24005416)
No, they are removing the ability to create them. The existing contributions will remain.
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Re:YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued acr... by notRobot on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:41PM (#24005420)
"Community Contributions" is the name of the feature, but the title could be phrased better
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Re:YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued acr... by pwinnski on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:56PM (#24005499)
Not quite. It seems like creators have until September 28 to choose to publish existing community contributions, and if they don't, it seems like they will all disappear. That's how I interpret, "You have until September 28, 2020 to publish your community contributions before they’re removed."
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Re:YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued acr... by llacb47 on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:08AM (#24005547)
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/61967856?hl=en

    If you have contributions currently saved as drafts, these will be available for the next 60 days (until Sept 28 2020), and you have until then to publish them before they’re removed. Any already published contributions (titles, descriptions, captions, etc) will continue to show up on videos and can be managed by Creators in YouTube Studio.
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Re:YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued acr... by zaarn on Friday July 31, 2020 @02:43AM (#24006280)
IIRC this was basically what they said when annotations become unavailable to new videos. They're completely gone now, so probably a year or so until community contributions are completely wiped.
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Re:YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued acr... by pwinnski on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:22PM (#24012777)
Ah, okay, thanks for explaining!
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Re:YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued acr... by frei on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:46AM (#24005753)
I've done some translating on YouTube. What it means is if your translation is in draft mode (you're still working on it) on 9/28 it will disappear. The video creator shouldn't need to do anything here.
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Re:YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued acr... by pwinnski on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:22PM (#24012782)
Ah, okay, thanks for explaining!
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