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> In the absence of Stories, YouTube wants creators to instead post content to other surfaces on the platform: Community Posts and Shorts.

There's a difference between YouTube Stories and YouTube Shorts!? What's the difference? I legit thought they're the same thing.

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Stories was their Snapchat clone and Shorts is their TikTok clone.

Dammit, I hate Shorts and I was hoping they were killing that.

I exclusively use YT on a desktop computer so it's really annoying watching vertical video, not to mention the constant attempts to get me to start doomscrolling random content

Sucks to not be the target demographic then. Theres literally billions of people who use youtube every day on mobiles. Shorts is here to stay. Make peace with it I guess.

I think you miss the point. Shorts aren't really suited to the desktop yet they're crammed in there. The format isn't really suited to YouTube in general. If they really wanted to compete with tiktok they'd spin shorts off to a separate app and tune their algorithm to those users without continuing to make YouTube worse while pandering to shorts.

Stories are short videos that are only available for a limited amount of time (from a few hours to a couple days), while Shorts are regular videos with limited length. Instagram has both as well.

identical to ig: stories are ig stories (transient) shorts are reels (not transient)

i've upvoted this article and encourage it

I feel like an old man, but I wonder, what's wrong with just using regular youtube to post a video of any length that you want and then deleting it if for some reason you really don't want it up anymore?

1) There's automation for the "deleting it" part.

2) Viewers understand that the video is only temporarily available, without your having to tell them.

I see - I suppose my problem is that I see disappearing videos as a problem rather than a feature. What's even more annoying to me are the spots on youtube lists I've created over the years that just say the video has been removed, but doesn't even tell me what it was that is gone.

To me, they're the same thing: unwelcome.

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