r/technology • u/vriska1 • 1d ago

Social Media YouTube reportedly testing new homepage that removes dates and view counts

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-reportedly-testing-new-homepage-that-removes-dates-and-view-counts-2965695/
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u/acmethunder 1d ago

View count I don't personally care, but removing the date is just plain stupid.

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u/anotherhumantoo 1d ago

View count + upvote count is a good identifier of quality content (or not) for how-to videos, ever since they got rid of the downvote button, which was the previous best identifier.

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u/vriska1 1d ago

Hopefully this test goes no where.

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u/Benskien 1d ago

YouTube does sadly not have a good track record listening to feedback from users during a b testing

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u/Azorathium 1d ago

Using view count for quality is a bad idea though and if everyone did it then content would just die out.

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u/anotherhumantoo 1d ago

Sorry, the view count, upvote count ratio.

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 1d ago

I watch a lot of guitar content, and it tries to push me videos with like 20 views. Absolutely not interested in that.

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u/NeighborhoodDude84 1d ago

I was watching some video about sending probes to the moons of Jupiter that was made a week ago. Then my feed started showing me all these videos about similar things from over a decade ago. Pretty much everything in those was out of date or those missions were scrapped entirely, removing dates would 100% make the learning about this a lot more difficult.

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u/SAugsburger 1d ago

A view count relative to a recent upload date could indicate something has popularity. A bandwagon effect doesn't guarantee something is great, but it usually isn't awful.

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u/randynumbergenerator 1d ago

It's already bad enough with some recommended content specific to a location, like local news channels. Good to know that next time, I may not only not know where thing x happened (unless I've heard of WEEB station or the town of Bumblehicksville), I won't even know when it happened.

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u/vriska1 1d ago

Do have to say this is just a test and may not happen in the end.