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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by educaysean on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:29PM (#29182924)
Completely agreed with this. If you make a feature less useful than before of course it will be engaged with less.

A radical approach in the similar vein would be to just turn off half your infra and add a ton of latency to YouTube. That would similarly solve the "dislike attacking behavior" altogether at the cost of having your existing users hate your product, with the added bonus of server cost savings.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by SilasX on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:21AM (#29188766)
Yes, the bane of my existence.

- Site is usable.

- Site updates to significantly less usable version but keeps the old version around.

- They keep breaking things about the old version.

- "Oh no one uses the old version anymore, let's EOL it to save resources."

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