i have never understood this complaining about subscriptions, it has always worked absolutely fine for me
i subscribe to a channel and their videos show up on the subscriptions page, that’s it, it works?
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
What surprised me the most was the statistic that only 3% of author’s views come from the subscriptions feed. This is wild to me because subscriptions are pretty much the only way I have ever used YouTube.
Considering that my biggest issue with YouTube is the fact that subscribing to a channel means fucking nothing now, it doesn’t surprise me at all.
Being subscribed to a channel used to actually inform you when that channel uploaded something new. Now, that system is a separate thing (the bell) and it doesn’t even fucking work 100% of the time. I subscribe to and have notifications enabled for about 13 channels that upload every single day; I only get notified like once a month about a random video whenever.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
There’s absolutely no incentive to log in to YouTube now that subscriptions and bells do nothing to control your feed. End stage enshittification.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I use Newpipe since I’m not going to login. No ads
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
(the bell) and it doesn’t even fucking work 100% of the time. I subscribe to and have notifications enabled for about 13 channels that upload every single day; I only get notified like once a month
Do you have it set to “All”, or to “Personalized”?
I don’t really care about most notifications, so I leave them on “Personalized”, which lets the algorithm decide when to send one. The few channels I’ve set to “All”, seem to notify me every time.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
I have them all set to all.
spizzat2@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I subscribe to and have notifications enabled for about 13 channels that upload every single day; I only get notified like once a month about a random video whenever YouTube decides it wants to actually do the thing I have told it to do.
This has not been my experience. I subscribe with bell for almost every channel I follow. If anything I almost get too many notifications, but at least I get to decide whether each notification/video is worth watching or dismissing. The new video notifications aren’t always immediate, but I almost never see a video on my subscription feed that I haven’t already been notified about.
QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Apparently my way of consuming YT is very different from most people. I do rely on subscriptions feed, but I have never used notifications. The feed still works perfectly - for me at least.
Just out of curiosity. Why do you need notifications? Do you try to watch the videos as soon they are posted?
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Youtube posting notifications tries me mad. I will see the video I was when I can round to loading the app open next I don’t need to be told the nano seconds they upload
Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I have similar questions when YouTubers say the old "don't forget to ring that bell" and the like. What on Earth would I need notifications for? It's on-demand video! The whole point is that it waits for me!
dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Having upcoming videos in my subscription feed can get stuffed too. Just list it when it’s online.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Preach!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
I just want to know that something new I subscribe to was added because it doesn’t always appear on my front page or recommendations, doesn’t show a thing on the subscription panel (assuming the channel is one of the ones visible without going into the whole page of subscriptions) and I don’t want to have to check every channel I subscribe to every time I am watching YT just to know whether or not there is anything new.