It's a pity YouTube doesn't let people built innovative interfaces to this treasure trove.
It's so frustrating that their interface is so very bad for discovery and exploration.
It's so frustrating that their interface is so very bad for discovery and exploration.
This is one of the things a comprehensive interoperability mandate could enable.
Require monopolistic companies that have a frontend/backend architecture to publish the interface docs and to not obstruct third party commercial alt backends/frontends.
Its a bit like carving up monopolistic firms along the joints (interfaces) defined by the software architecture, and team structure. Just less extreme; the firm isnt actually split, it's just required to allow "fair competition by third party architecture components"
This would really improve googles software, we might get e2ee google keep or gmail with pgp.
(I have not worked out the details of this, it might not be feasible)
Either it appeals to my interests or it doesn't. Why should I care if a million other people get it recommended as well?
And even if that were the case, again, so what? If Youtube makes good non-mainstream music more popular, that's still a good thing. That's exactly what one should want a recommendation algorithm to do.
I'm trying to see the problem here and I can't.
As a lifelong musician, I find it to be a great resource for discovery. I really lean into curating what I do and don’t want to see and it delivers amazing results frequently.
It’s also a nice counterpoint to recs I get from other sources: streaming services, friends, strangers, and good ‘ol fashioned digging.
These exist. They should be discoverable. They used to be. But in 2026 the search results skew towards dubious influencers and AI schlock.
It misses the point. The video that is most valuable to me isn’t necessarily popular, is not the authors real job, but they actually know what they’re doing and explain it well.
You wouldn’t even need a full UI, just a big curated directory of useful stuff.
No.
Fix the goddamn video search in the first place, I don't want to talk to some asshole chatbot to find a video.
Then the cards between videos telling me about YouTube Playables.
Goddamnit, this is a video site, not a goddamn game site.