I use it almost daily and thought others might find it useful.<p>I submitted this to HN 6 years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409019">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409019</a>
My YouTube process must be very corner case. I usually keep an eye on subscriptions during the day and add the videos I want to watch to watch later and then order them a special way. House and trailers first, entertainment, fitness and then music. I have a separate watch later for the gym that I curate in a similar order for long treadmill runs. And that gets downloaded to the phone.<p>I do this every day. YouTube’s changing interface designs usually make this harder and harder.<p>Being able to order by channel groups would actually help this but I usually watch via AppleTV app in the evening.<p>Apparently very few people use watch later and order intentionally. Just two actions to corner case myself.
My strategy is just to <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocksite/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocksite/</a> with the regex R:^<a href="https://www.youtube.com/$" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/$</a> and redirect that to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions</a><p>With this strategy, I've often seen videos from my favorite YouTubers within minutes of them posting a new video. It also allows me to "finish" watching YouTube for the day.
How is it different from YouTube subscriptions page? As I understand it will hide any old ones since last refresh compared to the YT subs page which will show all.<p>(I need something like this for Hacker News)
Not the same but since YouTube still has RSS support you can add your favorite channels to an rss reader and get notified about new videos (and unfortunately also shorts)
I wrote <a href="https://github.com/ThomasHabets/yurate">https://github.com/ThomasHabets/yurate</a> and use it daily to triage new videos from channels I subscribe to.<p>It uses a playlist (to triage into) and google drive's application specific storage (so not access to other google drive files) for state, so is entirely client side.<p>Usable here: <a href="https://cement.retrofitta.se/tmp/yt/yt.html" rel="nofollow">https://cement.retrofitta.se/tmp/yt/yt.html</a>
Mostly offtopic: This reminds me of the LiveJournal page where you could view all the latest images uploaded to that site. It was a mix of everything from news to porn and gave a small insight into the zeitgeist. It was also voyeuristic, and to this almost 50 year old it seems similar to the endless-refresh consumption of tiktok.<p>The web was definitely much, much smaller back then. You couldn't do something similar with any of the large social media sites, although maybe a small random sampling would work. I wonder if part of the perceived ills of social media are due to the sheer scale of it all? It's impossible to be "caught up" with anything anymore, there's always another trillion gallons pouring out of the firehose. Perhaps that's partly why HN endures, it stays small?
Slightly tangential to this but I also use <a href="https://getstarmaker.com/spark" rel="nofollow">https://getstarmaker.com/spark</a> to discover really fresh videos with low subscriber count.
I'll try this out. Currently I use PipePipe (NewPipe fork) and have subscription groups I use to pull the latest videos for a specific set of channels.
I created TubeMail.io to get an email digest of new videos from a list of YouTube channels u define.<p>It's not open source, but free to use (with no ads or catches)
Reminder that YouTube provides feeds for channels:<p>* <a href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[ID]" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[ID]</a>
For a similar reason I've been using <a href="https://pockettube.io/" rel="nofollow">https://pockettube.io/</a> for the past year, to manage my YT subscriptions, and it is one of the most impactful extensions I've installed.<p>Features I really like:<p><pre><code> + Subscription groups: When subscribing to channels you choose in what subscription group to put them. In your left sidebar you can see all your subscription groups and total the number of new videos they published.
- When you click on a subscription group from your left sidebar, it doesn't take you away from the current YT URL you're on. It just opens a well-integrated modal window from which you can see what's new. There you can also filter whether the videos watched/unwatched/shorts/uploads/live/.
+ Notifications when a new video video is published in a certain subscription group. For example last year I wanted to keep up with the latest Stable Diffusion developments, so I had a group for this, with high quality channels only, and wanted to be notified when a new video is published.
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It feels like more people should know about this extension. Somehow I feel I've found it pretty late in the game, when I realized YT's default subscription management was very painful to me.
We've come full circle.<p>Honestly I hate 'AI' or predicted recommendations in my personal feed.this type of stuff is fine in a explore category.<p>I actually feel as if the recommendations make it harder to find videos I enjoy