YouTube is Killing Stories 37
YouTube is getting rid of Stories, a feature for temporary posts, beginning in June. Users won't be able to post Stories starting June 26th, and existing posts will expire after seven days. From a report: Stories were first introduced in 2017 under the name Reels and were available to users with over 10,000 subscribers. Similar to Instagram (which in turn lifted the concept from Snapchat), YouTube Stories disappeared after a set amount of time; creators could use Stories to post updates or behind-the-scenes content to promote their channel. But looking around today, it doesn't seem to have caught on -- access was limited, few creators seem to be regularly posting Stories, and the feature doesn't get much promotion even from YouTube. In the absence of Stories, YouTube wants creators to instead post content to other surfaces on the platform: Community Posts and Shorts. The company recently expanded access to Community Posts, a text-based updates feature, and added the ability to have posts expire after a certain period. Creators can also share polls, quizzes, images, and videos as Community Posts, which appear in a tab on channels.
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Am glad as well. Now if they could just kill Shorts. Stupid TikTok-clone bullshit.
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With luck, "shorts" will be next for the chop!
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Re: Unable to skip ahead in stories, and so, (Score:2)
At least you can replace /shorts/ with /watch?v=" and view it as a normal Youtube video in a browser. There are probally browser plugins that do this automatically.
But in Appity app app APP land? Yeah you are screwed.
Appity app apps are designed to restrict and steer you in someone else's direction, and take up more space too.
I think the real reason (Score:2)
please kill shorts. (Score:5, Insightful)
next do Shorts.
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Came here to say this as well.
Re:please kill shorts. (Score:4, Informative)
There are dozens of us!!!
Seriously though, it's everyone. Please kill shorts. Tap on one of those fuckers even accidentally and your feed is nothing but insta girl softcore shovelware for the next week. SMH
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Turn them off with this list of filters for uBlockOrigin
www.youtube.com##ytd-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-mini-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse #dismissible ytd-rich-grid-slim-media[is-short]:upward(ytd-rich-section-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-grid-video-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail
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Many of the Shorts I'm getting are just excerpts of larger videos, so creators are effectively spamming the ecosystem with duplicate content.
Yes, please... kill off Shorts, before they kill the entire platform.
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Yes, please... kill off Shorts, before they kill the entire platform.
Too late. YouTube already announced, '30 second, commercials that can't be skipped'. If that truly means the likes of uBlock Origin and such won't save us, YouTube is dead, at least to me it will become.
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Adblock for Youtube works perfectly for me and has for years, my only issue is that sometimes its more comfortable/convenient to watch on the iPad
These were a thing? (Score:2)
Re:These were a thing? (Score:4, Interesting)
I made the mistake of watching a couple comedians dealing with hecklers in these little deals, which means my youtube front page is one row of regular vids, one row of "stories" repeating. It'd be nice if these behemoth sites started allowing the users to choose what they wanted on their front page, but nope. The algorithm is perfecter than human and knows better than you what you want to see. Worship the algorithm, bros. LOVE THE ALGORITHM!
Me too (Score:4, Insightful)
Stories is just one of these feature YouTube put in there because others did it and they had some success. It didn't really fit in, people didn't use it, so they are killing it.
Maybe it will be the same for shorts, which I like to call YouTok. It is all the rage now, but it may not be that great for monetization compared to long format video. It works at getting people hooked, but with an endless stream of rapidly changing random content, the attention span goes to zero, so much that even ads don't stick. I guess the only reason YouTube is doing shorts is to keep users on their platform instead of going to TikTok, but that if people are watching shorts instead of long format video, YouTube is losing money.
eFail (Score:1)
Google has done Shorts dumbly. For one, the usual navigation controls don't work. You can't shift the time cursor to the middle, for example.
Second, it wastes screen space on desktops, they are all in a single column. Why not put them adjacent to each other so we don't have to scroll (when viewed on desktops). Without that, the prior way was better, because you had thumbnails of related content to the right. They didn't even need a special format for "shorts" if they are going to use a single column. They f
Re: Me too (Score:2)
Now you need some brain surgery and a breath mint.
now get rid of reposts of tiktok (Score:3)
Err, shorts, or whatever they're called. They're 99.9999% Joe Rogan crap, anyways.
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Turn them off with this list of filters for uBlockOrigin:
www.youtube.com##ytd-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-mini-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse #dismissible ytd-rich-grid-slim-media[is-short]:upward(ytd-rich-section-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-grid-video-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-o
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Mod all the way up!
Now kill shorts (Score:4, Informative)
I don't even know what that is, but they should have killed shorts. They're like... short videos, but vertical. Yeah! Everybody's favorite format, VV. /sarcasm.
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Turn them off with this list of filters for uBlockOrigin:
www.youtube.com##ytd-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-mini-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse #dismissible ytd-rich-grid-slim-media[is-short]:upward(ytd-rich-section-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-grid-video-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overla
But at least... (Score:2)
...they killed the 'for you' default and put back 'latest'.
YTUPoV (Score:3)
Now get rid of "YouTube Uncontrollables Portrait-oriented Videos", or whatever they're called.
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Turn them off with this list of filters for uBlockOrigin:
www.youtube.com##ytd-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-mini-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse #dismissible ytd-rich-grid-slim-media[is-short]:upward(ytd-rich-section-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-grid-video-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail
"Stories" (Score:2)
I vaguely remember hearing about this but never came across a "story" in the wild.
Expiring videos? Glad to see that bad idea getting the boot.
Lets take shit and make it stink more (Score:2)
"The company recently expanded access to Community Posts, a text-based updates feature, and added the ability to have posts expire after a certain period. Creators can also share polls, quizzes, images, and videos as Community Posts, which appear in a tab on channels."
What Google dreams of a forgetful internet. I don't like time limited content and if anyone is using this feature, it means they are saying things that they should not be saying and they don't want people to go back to these posts and
Can we now get Facebook to dump "Reels"? (Score:2)
Stories were first introduced in 2017 under the name Reels and were available to users with over 10,000 subscribers.
In the spirit of competition can we now get Facebook to dump their version of "Reels"? They are just as worthless and far more in your face. I didn't even know that Youtube "Stories" existed. I was fine with that. I wish I didn't have to know that Facebook "Reels" exist.