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That's good to know. The number of times I have subscribed to someone on YouTube only to not see anything from them in years, and then find tens of their videos YouTube never offered is just insane.

So many times I can't find anything to watch on YouTube and it just isn't showing me any of my subscriptions, it's ridiculous.

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The first three menu items in the navbar of the authenticated YouTube homepage are 'Home', 'Shorts', and 'Subscriptions'. 'Subscriptions' shows exactly what's on the tin, a timeline of videos from your subscribed channels.

A lot of people might not realize this exists because of the way apps for smart tv's and game systems present the content and menus. I'm not sure if that's intentional or just misguided design, but the only reason I knew to see it out on my PS4's YouTube app is because I'd seen it on desktop.

I use RSS for many sources, from YouTube also. I can open yt from there.

I do not understand why people keeps suggesting subscription view, as it is a worse experience for me, than central RSS management

Because it's a heck of a lot better than what some people such as the grandparent are doing, which is ignoring the existence of the Subscriptions view entirely and relying on the home screen to be useful.

Using the Subscriptions view is as simple as changing your bookmark. Setting up RSS is a lot more complicated for someone who isn't already using one.

If you're already on RSS, no one is suggesting you use Subscriptions instead.

The opposite problem is also bad: subscribe to a channel, then get frequent notifications of years-old videos.

Don’t forget the “click the bell” too. Even when I have notifications enabled I rarely ever get any.

For some reason YouTube website never has any kind of notification popup in site either. Instead, the notification icon count increases by one.

Which caps at out 9+. Stupid.

Click the bell also adds many undesirable to me notifications like push notifications or email notifications.

What I want from subscriptions is basically a filtered list I pull from when going to youtube. With maybe some tiering so the people who upload once a year don't get lost in amongst the people who upload 2+ times a day

By "subscription" do you only mean subscription? Don't notifications need to be enabled in addition (bell button)?

I'm using the RSS feeds, so I'm not sure...

Just use Freetube.

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