YouTube Testing Non-Chronological Video Order in Subscription Feeds for Some Users

[497902]

I use a self-hosted RSS Server (Fever) which I believe is long discontinued but still works fine enough with Reeder for Mac and iOS to read the feeds.

Lots of options out there!

Reeder (or any standalone app?) doesn't have Adblock though, right?

 

[adamjackson]

Reeder (or any standalone app?) doesn't have Adblock though, right?

http://reederapp.com/mac/

This and no. If you can suggest something better, I am looking for a switch but I need dark mode support and support for Fever (self-hosted RSS Server).

I use the in-line Mercury Reader so I have the G key assigned as hot key so if an RSS feed is a linked post (like daring fireball) or they don't put full-text in the RSS feed, I click G and it loads all of the text w/o any motion GIFs or embeds. Works well without having to click over to Safari.

Daring Fireball:

Mercury Reader:

Here's how YouTube looks in its own folder:

If I look at my http://youtube.com/feed/subscriptions page, 2 of these videos don't show meaning YouTube is not displaying them to me despite I subscribe to them. Horse-crap.

 

[FrozenInferno]

These companies need to stop trying to tell us what they think we want to see and just leave things alone. We get it, you have AI and fancy algorithms. Not interested. I just want to see what's new in the order it has been posted and not miss something because the AI in the background thinks I don't need to see it.

 

[aaronhead14]

This trend needs to STOP. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter all suck now that everything is non-chronological. Everybody hates it. No need to keep this awful trend going!

 

[Altis]

This trend needs to STOP. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter all suck now that everything is non-chronological. Everybody hates it. No need to keep this awful trend going!

The general trend these days is for websites/software/services to all be going downhill for the consumer.

 

[Hustler1337]

Why do these companies hate chronological order? I've never heard of one. single. person say they miss an important post due to being in chronological order, but I've heard of plenty being missed because of algorithms.

My theory is that the reason they're trying to move away from chronological order is to encourage users to discover new content by forcing things onto a user's screen. They're trying to stop users using their service to directly access things they came to see in a 'zombie' mode and leave as soon as they're done.

By shoving things onto our screen, they're hoping users will find new content and therefore keep visiting/stay on their sites and therefore generate more revenue. You could see this trend with Youtube changing the home page to recommended videos instead of subscriptions, the introduction of discover/recommended pages on Instagram, Snapchat, Spotify, Twitter, Netflix etc.

Sadly, they don't seem to realise that we don't want to be forced to see things we don't want - it's having the opposite effect - putting us off using your app/website because we can't find what we came to see because they've concealed it! I don't mind subtle recommendations, but it's got the point where it's become intrusive and sickening.