I want to know who has seriously ever clicked the notification bell. YouTubers are constantly telling me to and I have never even come close. Why would I want more pointless notifications in my life?
I use them for some YouTubers who only post once or twice a year. Very useful tool. Just because you don't see the value doesn't mean it is valueless.
I have 986 subscriptions, most are small creators that don't post often. I have notifications for the key ones that I really don't want to miss.
I think the Bell is most useful if you use it for creators like h bomber guy where you're going to get maybe one upload a year, using the notification Bell for a channel that uploads everyday would be insane.
I use the subscription feed and use the notification bell for my favorite channels. I don't have notifications turned on for YouTube, but it does show in the top right corner of YouTube itself.
I don't always feel like watching everything I'm subscribed to, so this gives me a kind of "favorites of favorites" feed.
I use the subscription feed and it's how I've always used YouTube. I certainly don't want it giving me random notifications. It's not like I need to drop what I'm doing during the day just because someone published a video. When I want to watch videos, I'll go check my subscriptions.
Agreed. In my mind every notification is a chore to be dealt with, and I'm not going to let Youtube assign me chores.
I turned off notifications for everything outside text messages a couple of years ago and I could physically feel the anxiety going away. I hate this trend of notifications for the smallest things.
I had no idea people didn't use the subscription fees. It's the only way I engage with YouTube
If you block enough channels the default suggestions aren't bad at all. I found a few channels I wouldn't have known about that way.
That said, I spend about a minute looking at the suggestions and then dip to my subscriptions page.
My interaction with YouTube is pretty much the search bar at the top. I generally only go to YouTube when there is something specific that I want to watch/listen to: a specific song or video, etc. So there's little reason for me to subscribe to anything.
Dude I've had that exact same thought. Like, yeah, the subscription is where everything is. I never use the regular home page, my bookmark for YouTube goes to my subscription.
There's zero need for me to use the bell. I never understood why people complained about videos not showing up, etc.
Personally I remember when the main page used to be the user's subscription feed. After they changed it, I just updated my bookmark and continued to land on the subscription feed. At some point everyone else seems to have forgotten that that happened and started pushing the bell.
One thing I'll say though: They started making shorts take up a whole row and I'm not happy about it. I don't really watch shorts unless they're Hank Green's, and then it depends on my mood. I'm on YouTube for YouTube videos, not TikTok videos
If you have ublock origin there's a script you can put in that automatically hides YouTube shorts from your subscription page.
Them putting shorts in their own row made it much easier. You don't even need to find a script, just right click on the shorts and block element.
Works great, until they change the page again.
Same here. My bookmark goes to the subs page.
I use the subscription feed. Definitely don't use the bell. Bell is so cumbersome where you get a email for a new video, then you get that pop-up preview on your browser, and push notifications on your mobile device. Too much for me, especially since I'm at a point where I subscribe to 600 channels or so, which makes it hard to play favorites. That's sort of what the bell is for I guess, determining whose content you value the most.
SIX HUNDRED CHANNELS. I have maybe 50, and of that most of them are defunct comedy channels like Derrick Comedy or David Mitchell's soap box.
Wait…. Thats not how people use YouTube? I browse almost exclusively from my subscriptions page.
Same, the front page is a scary place and god help your soul if you click on trending
I very much use the subscription feed. I don't know how alone I am with this, but I usually only subscribe to channels when I want to watch almost all videos they post.
A lot of the time if a creator gets a little bit popular they start to spam videos and that's when I unsubscribe, even if I generally like their content. I feel like I cannot ever keep up anymore so I just watch their videos sporadically from then on.
I almost exclusively use the subscription feed. The front page is a mess of terrible recommendations on videos I have no interest in watching.
I think most people sadly don't use subscription feed. They just blindly watch whatever youtube algorithm throws at them.
I started with subscriptions and now I like both methods, they’re complementary. The algorithm is really good at suggesting either random stuff I like or new stuff I might like. And I subscribe for stuff I know I’ll want to watch no matter what. Works pretty well!
I just use RSS feeds of the YouTube channels I want to follow. I am sure that will be taken away from us soon to force us to do things the way they want. Until then ... go RSS!
Creators both put out so much dogshit that I have to cherry pick and also my sub feed doesn't account for actually good content.
So yeah I stopped paying attention to it. Even as a YouTube premium member.
The peak of garbage was when YouTube enforced a 10 minute watch time for max profit. They rolled it back but dude there used to be 8 minutes of fluff for a 2 minute video.
If you turn off history, it is very important and definitely shows in your Home feed, actually, it is the no.1 reason to turn off history
I use an extension called PocketTube to manage my subscriptions into categories. I'm sure there's a better way, but it works for me.
Newpipe does the same on mobile, ill have to try pocket tube, does it need a (yt?) account?
I use it all the time since the main feed is full of fluff half the time.
I don't rely on it at all because it likes to omit things I assume it thinks I won't like. Plenty of times I'll see a new video from a subscribed creator on the home tab to head over to subscriptions where I can't find it but see previous ones.
If it worked that would be great, instead I use third party apps to manage it and would just stop using YouTube if those tools were unavailable.
Newpipe or some of the other clients like it fetch youtube for channel data directly and aggrogate into a feed on your computer, verry clean way of doing it. Channel uploads by date is the last thing not AI controlled
It is my default page for Youtube. I want to see the most recent content from creators I have subscribed to.
After exhausting the subscriptions page, then I will go to the main page for related content. Shorts and the Explore are avoided at all costs.
That is how i use youtube, but now it is poisined with those crappy shorts. They are changing youtube into tiktok
Shorts ruined the subscription feed.
You can't really blame creators for trying to stay afloat, but fuck Google for not letting me turn off YT Short Notifications
My YT account is like 10 years old, so my subscribed tab is a mess.
Also, i like seeing what youtube throws at me cause the algorithm is actually quite good.
Too many subscriptions Not enough time
I use it almost exclusively - I've bookmarked Subscriptions instead of any other page. But it does feel like I'm unusual in this sometimes.
I don't use the subscriptions feed that much, i often just watch something i search for or something that was recomended to me. But i still don't want to get notifications from the channels i subscribe to, so i have notifications disabled for Youtube.
I still see how the notification bell can be useful for people that want to get notifications from some channels only.
I used to rely on it, but with live streams and shorts it now looks like a junkyard. Now that I've moved to Piped that has filtering by content type (videos, streams, shorts) I find myself using it again.
I use it, but I loathe having to scroll past random text posts, pics, and shorts before getting to content I actually subscribe to.
I feel like the main page though for Youtube now is essentially just a subscription feed. I watch a random video on any fucking topic, and suddenly either that channel or that topic DOMINATES my main page. My kids watch videos on my account and now my home page is just filled with crappy minecraft/roblox youtuber videos and non-sensical kid's videogame content. Like, is there an r/all version of Youtube where I can just see what videos are popular and trending with everybody? Sometimes I just want out of my small world of interests and just want to see what kind of trash everybody else is getting into. Or has society lost its collective mind and the same shit my kids are watching just so happens to be the same crap that the rest of the world is watching? I feel like I tend to see hyper-specific videos that likely only I watch on there though, and seeing other people's home pages I can tell that they're getting individualized feeds as well, so I don't think it just so happens that I'm culturally aligned with the rest of the world.
Oh yeah there is. Open the left-hand navigation sidebar, and click on "trending" . The trending tab isn't as bad as it used to be but it's still bad.
youtube feed is a toddler you're trying to tame. even the slightest misdirection will end you up with infinite crochet videos for 2 weeks because you watched a video about the last crochet artists in cambodia
Yeah, it is weird.
I never watch duck videos. But if I watch 10 seconds of one duck video, YouTube is like:
"OH YEAH, YOU LIKE DUCK VIDEOS!? HERE ARE SOME FUCKING DUCK VIDEOS!!!"
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