also being new to TikTok, I didn't realize scrolling up at first would refresh the queue of videos. And I would lose the vid being watched which was a bit terrifying to lose an interesting video.

It's discoverable at least and I can look past it given tiktok does a bunch of other stuff so much better than it's competitors. What's a lot less forgivable is how undiscoverable your actual watch history is in case you do want to go back to that one vid. Litterally have to search for * or the like.

The should have a page with "recently shown on home page" like the history page for actually shown videos.

i had this happen to me. ive lost videos I wanted to see when i clicked one instead of another.

That's what watch later is for though.

I keep getting recommended the same damn set to videos which I've passed over a hundred times. Not sure why the "algorithm" is getting so much love, it's got some attributes that are pretty clearly crap.

I use watch later for completing videos, but these are just I think may be interesting from the homepage, like seeing the title and background pic. I sometimes open multiple tabs for them.

One of things I found the coolest, was when I am watching a video, and if the video mentions for example some event that happened a while ago or a person being referenced, I would immediately search for that, and I would see it already recommended on the search bar.

Maybe lots of others have also done the same, and it recorded that as a meaningful suggestion. Or maybe it's standard ML techniques, or the new Transformer models diffused across Googles products I'm not sure but was noticing this even around 3 years ago.

I wish though it would surface videos in my watch later in the recommendations page. As it is "watch later" is where videos go to get forgotten about.

Mine does? I often see videos from my watch later on the homepage. If you hover on them they say, "from your watch later list". It does only seem to be recently added ones though.