I am on a mission to make YouTube great again with my next project

Re:I am on a mission to make YouTube great again with my nex... by eimrine on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:43PM (#32611216)

I can not wait when you will finish the project because in my mind you have describen exactly all the bad parts, I have nothing else to desire. Youtube's search is the poorest search I have ever seen despite of really cool ML which can range videos by huge amount of parameters. From my experience, currently the only way to get really interesting videos (for me this is a science) is not to watch anything except science for getting falled into the science content loop, and watch more of [1] maybe without really watching just for the sake of recommendations.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com

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Re:I am on a mission to make YouTube great again with my nex... by iamcomedy on Saturday August 27, 2022 @08:59AM (#32618455)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me! Well the engineering team at Youtube is working hard but still I cannot understand how the algo can still miss huge parts. I spoke with so many people on Reddit and there are so many different problems they encounter.

- They are used to watch videos about a specific topic and then if they watch 1 video about something else (let's say headphones for example) the algo forgets about their previous preferences and keeps showing recommendations about headphones.

- Some people get recommended videos they already watched before

- Some people don't really like Shorts so they would prefer if there was a way to toggle off so they won't see them anymore

And there are also so many different issues.

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