Comment by IshKebab | Hacker News Reader

Comment by IshKebab | Hacker News Reader

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> If anybody knows some good DIY or woodworking channels, let me know!

There are dozens of great channels in those spaces. Here are some I remember just off the top of my head.

* Cars: Watch Wes Work (need 1.5x speed here!), Prop Department, Mat Armstrong, Chris Fix

* Woodworking: Frank Howarth, Matthias Wandel, The Wood Whisperer, John Heisz, Steve Ramsey

* Metalworking: Clickspring, Cronova Engineering, Tubal Cain

* General DIY/inventions: DIY Perks, Uri Tuchman, Stuff Made Here, Colin Furze, Applied Science, Breaking Taps

I think it's actually not too bad at surfacing this stuff. They also have a "New to You" button you can click.

My main complaint is it will recommend a specific video to you for aaaages without you clicking on it before it finally realises you aren't interested. You can manually say you aren't interested, but it's two clicks and you shouldn't need to do that anyway.

Thanks! I know a couple of 'em, will check the rest.

Indeed not hard to surface, but a handful of channels is a drop in the ocean of all the videos that must have been uploaded and are at least nice to watch and informative. Sometimes I get these rare gems inside my recommendations; a small channel with a couple of very interesting videos, maybe not the best or slickest productions, but definitely of interest. I guess the algo strongly favors a regular upload rhythm.

I can subscribe to these channels, but I can't even find them in my subscriptions. There's no overview, and sometimes I subscribe to channels that I know I already subscribed to (the channels themselves also experienced this unsubscribing behavior and made this known in their videos).

> My main complaint is it will recommend a specific video to you for aaaages without you clicking on it before it finally realises you aren't interested. You can manually say you aren't interested, but it's two clicks and you shouldn't need to do that anyway.

Completely agree!

> I can subscribe to these channels, but I can't even find them in my subscriptions. There's no overview

You can just click "subscriptions" on the left to only show videos from channels you are subscribed to, and then there's another button somewhere to show a list of your subscriptions.

> a handful of channels is a drop in the ocean of all the videos that must have been uploaded and are at least nice to watch and informative

It wasn't an exhaustive list!

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