YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option

Re:YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/... by hjanssen on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:59AM (#33559656)

I think with the scale requirements of YouTube, we can not assume that the search is powered by one single DB or any traditional, relational DB at all.

Some things that are easy with one DB, get surprisingly hard when you scale up. Lets give them the benefit of the doubt regarding technical issues here.

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Re:YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/... by dontlaugh on Friday November 11, 2022 @07:35AM (#33560046)

Going by Vitess, they may still be using heavily sharded MySQL.

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Re:YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/... by osser on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:02PM (#33563330)

Not any more https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/9760#issue-114721804...

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Re:YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/... by soulofmischief on Friday November 11, 2022 @07:06AM (#33559742)

I don't give them the benefit of the doubt, because they should have had proper testing in place before anything like this reached production. This is either intentional or grossly negligent.

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Re:YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/... by pixl97 on Friday November 11, 2022 @08:10AM (#33560386)

What are you going to do, go somewhere else?

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Re:YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/... by soulofmischief on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:17PM (#33569615)

I've written a YouTube clone, so yes, that's my plan eventually. That's the same argument used in domestic abuse situations.

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