we’re making updates to better match how people discover trending content today by shifting away from one all-encompassing Trending list towards category-specific charts that we’ll continue to invest in over time.
Lol. I only ever go to my subscriptions page.
The trending page stopped being worth looking at once it shifted away from actual trending content. That content was replaced with ad friendly corporate videos like Kimmel and family vloggers you’ve never heard of.
don’t they just wanna turn that into the “everything” page? I get the feeling that Youtube and sites like it would rather us watch what they want rather than what we want.
When you’re logged out the main page is blank. It’s glorious. Thanks EU!
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they doing that to stop all the scrapers like newpipe from “working”.
shit is hilarious.
fuck you Google.
How’s that gonna break NewPipe and the likes? Surely they don’t rely solely on the Trending page to get videos and such. I can see unpopular videos as well.
Sure, that could break their Trending pages. But they can then adapt by adopting the different Trending categories, innit? Make it a drop-down on the Trending page to select a category and avoid cluttering other parts of the interface with all the options
it won’t, but it’s clearly a deterrent. a pathetic one at that.
I use https://unhook.app/ and there’s no trending page
unhook is amazing, it blocked unrelated ragebait and tripophobic content randomly popping up on my searches
Oh, also pair it with https://dearrow.ajay.app/ to crowdsource de-ragebaiting titles/thumbnails (from the maker of Sponsorblock)
Meanwhile report every video that has a click-baity title or thumbnail
Could that be the first actual improvement in years?
I’m sure they’re gonna replace it with something even more asinine but my god, the trending page was always just a cesspool of the absolute worst content on YouTube (with a few exceptions every now and then).
I spend hours on YouTube every single day and I have no clue what a “trending page” is.
I’m not sure how you can be so invested in YouTube and not at least be aware of trending. Have I ever looked at it? Not intentionally. Am I aware of it? Yeah.
When I open YouTube it gives me an edless feed of recommendations tailored to me. I don’t care what other people are watching. If there’s a tab with the title “trending” I’ve probably just never clicked it. I’m not even tempted to go see.
- Always check the Subscriptions page first
- Check Watch Later list, after that
- scroll the Home page, after that
Have never seen a link to a “Trending” page or a “Trending Now” list in any of those spots.
I have YouTube bookmarked to go directly to subscriptions and I have revanced configured to open directly to subscriptions. I’ve still seen trending as a tab in the sidebar on the website, and accidentally tapped on it back before vanced existed.
All of that said, I did just check and it’s way more difficult to find now. It’s near the bottom of the sidebar in browser, and iirc it used to have its own frustratingly dedicated tab in the mobile app, which it no longer does.
I worked at YouTube and use it constantly. I knew about it. But I just never used it. Because it was always garbage.
Get rid of Shorts.
Shorts are annoying, but now they started cluttering the subscription page with community posts.
It’s bad, but especially when you browse in landscape Mode on a phone. They get blown up so big you have to scroll like 3 pages for one post, and there’s a lot of them.
And they will stay on your page forever and wont go away. No option to click them away at all.
Hell yeah! It’s way too hot even for those.
It’s too hot for that and I don’t think Google should control what people wear.
I keep hiding shorts but it keeps coming back like herpes
Revanced if you’re on Android
I do the range to those fucking YouTube game things. Stupid things
Same. I actually truly hate seeing the games pop up, so ugly and generic looking
Use browser plug-ins and revanced.
I’ve installed user scripts to replace the player with the normal one and used unlock to hide the feed in my subscriptions page. Did the same with revanced on my phone.
They’re just designed to be addictive, I wasn’t getting anything out of them.
But Algospeak
Shorts (as a format) aren’t the problem, it’s what you watch. If you train the algorithm to serve you garbage, then of course it’s gonna serve you garbage ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I literally never watch shorts. I’ve selected the option to show less shorts on my computer, I select the not interested option on each individual video on my TV when the row of them shows up, and they still constantly come back.
It blows my mind how popular shorts are because I’ve never had an interest in watching them.
Shorts as a format are a problem, infinite scroll is just too addictive and having a format that encourages grabbing your attention in the first milliseconds even more than normal videos drags quality down
Search is unusable because of shorts. Also I want the ability to turn them off.
Dude, I suck at comments but even I put the effort in to get the shrugging guy right. Missing arm fucking sucks. I’ve got a shitty clue for you. It’s a bunch of unnatural slashes
I’ve never used that feature…
Ahh yes, the brainrot feed.
Great, trending videos are generally completely trash
Knowing Youtube they will start drizzling them into your search results instead or something equally terrible.
Occasionally a video I like will get to trending and I’ll question my taste in media.
True. I know this person and they speak for every single person that uses YouTube.
Good. Can my Watch Later list please be the most important item I see when I go there?
Yeah, cover your shame.
Logged out YouTube was covered up a few years ago.
Does this mean I will have to scroll even more if I want to go to a specific channel I am subscribed to? All i want on the left is History and the list of channels I am subscribed to.
Just use RSS to follow specific channels.
Freetube does this really well
The trending page is separate from subscriptions.
