Here’s what a video page looked like back in 2003:
Comment on YouTube now
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Youtube had a star rating system for videos?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 months ago
EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world 4 months ago
<starts playing Weird Al’s “Good Old Days”>
Furbag@pawb.social 4 months ago
The old YT player was perfect and nobody will convince me otherwise.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 months ago
- I was baby then 😁.
It’s kind of amazing how long people have been putting up with youtube, compared to other social media + SM adjacent sites.
tal@lemmy.today 4 months ago
ApertureUA@lemmy.today 4 months ago
where did you get a screenshot of my setup?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 months ago
But will your setup open the pod bay doors, Hal?
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 4 months ago
Early on yeah, they replaced it with the thumbs up/down system since most star ratings were 1 or 5.
eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Eons ago, yes. It initially bothered me when they replaced it with thumbs up/down since I couldn’t rank things with nuance.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 4 months ago
They used to, and they currently do too, but the current one isn’t meant to be an alternative to the like/dislike button like this portrays.
It’s most often in your feed, where occasionally it’ll show a video to you, then give you a tiny light blue box beneath it saying “how good of a recommendation is this” or something along those lines, then you rate it so they can both make the algorithm better overall, and fine-tune yours even if you don’t want to watch the video. (e.g. I might say “5 stars, this is a good recommendation,” but never watch it just because I don’t have the time. YouTube knows I like that topic now, just that I might not watch videos that are that long.)
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 4 months ago
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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m sorry 🗿