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Re:Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video... by nonbirithm on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:23PM (#24453931)
There is an issue preventing the download of Watch Later playlists that has been open for over a year. The core maintainer, dstftw, closes all reports related to it with "duplicate" while never giving a reason or the original issue. See this issue I filed for an example.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860

He closed it without even addressing the issue of him closing the related issues that I explicitly brought up. There are scores of issues describing the same issue, but all of them are closed, and more of them are still being submitted. This has been going on since April of last year.

It's making me realize that sometimes a fork really is the only way to get around the problem that you're not in control of the project and there are bugs that many people need to be fixed.

Re:Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video... by tardyp on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:00PM (#24454189)
Closing duplicated issues looks okay to me. The author not interested in fixing this issue himself looks okay to me. Is he refusing fix proposals about it?
Re:Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video... by dmd on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:27PM (#24454358)
Yes; there are now several hundred pending PRs for both fixes and new extractors, all ignored.