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First, when I added multiple channels it seemed like it was playing content from just the first one I added. I liked the filtering feature so I could swap that way, but I assume the idea is it should work with both? If so, how does it choose the order?
Second, and this is a more specialized “need” but on some channels the videos are sequential. Gaming channels frequently have “episodes” and podcasts sometimes have parts. I noticed they come in inverse order as yours probably shows newest first. Probably not the use case you’re solving for but just be aware.
I want to add more advanced filtering/ordering options later on, so that's a good call out
the idea to also display "playlists" is interesting, I will think about that :)
But the problem is—No subtitles preferences, no video organizer.
Channel organization and deleting is already out there. But video organizer, playlists & subtitles will make it better.
I think you added ads-blocker too. Right?
I'm using YouTube's official iframe embed to stay compliant with their ToS, so ad serving is entirely on their side and I don't control it.
You can try Tauri/Electron to build a cross platform app. The app will be a browser instance that renders the website and can remove ads, cookies and other headers easily & legally as technically it's not a website.
Btw. Don't you have GitHub or X?
the idea of the home is to just show the latest/highlights of the selected channels, but I see the appeal to give it more flexibility, so that's something to consider