Now what's going on with YouTube?

[D'Snowth]

It's like with the older player, whenever you changed the playback quality, the video is initially pixelated, so you have to hover the cursor over the video or the player to fix it.

 

[D'Snowth]

Okay, evidently, YT must have realized they fixed something, because they've now broken Watch History again - it's gone back to disallowing more than 20 vids in your Watch History list again.

We can't have nice things.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I have never had this problem...I have well over 100 vids in my watch history cause i never clear it. I'm looking at it right now. It's not a chrome thing either because I switched to using firefox months ago after chrome proved to be very poorly optimized for large screen resolutions.

 

[D'Snowth]

How many of them are duplicates though? Because after you reach a certain number of them (in most cases 20, but for much of the rest of this month, I was able to get up to 40), certain vids will start duplicating in the list, and if you delete one of the duplicates, that deletes the video altogether from your history.

 

[D'Snowth]

Gah! Amy ****in' Schumer keeps popping up in my recommended for absolutely no reason! I hate her, I never watch any video of her, nor any channel that would even remotely have a video with her, so how and why does she keep showing up in my recommended?

 

[D'Snowth]

Okay, so there's apparently a new YT scam going on out there, and it sounds like deja vu of Viacom years ago: there's a "network" you can partner up with that call themselves BBTV (or, Broadband TV) - they claim that they'll help creators and partner channels manage their content to avoid copyright claims, third party claims, all that sort of thing, but what they're doing is going around and nuking content they don't even own any rights to. This is similar to what Viacom was doing years ago when they were creating all of these fake channels to encourage other people to post content like SpongeBob and stuff, then they could strike and yank those videos down for infringement.

 

[Drtooth]

Seems now Deviant Art is going on the Ad Block shaming bandwagon.

Yeah.

The very same site that did nothing about Trojan Horse virus software ad that automatically load on your computer no matter if you want it or not that I got twice when I dared have the site on screen when I went to the bathroom wants me to enable ads because I'm a terrible person for EXCUSE ME not wanting a Trojan Horse virus!

 

[D'Snowth]

More and more people are leaving deviantART for tumblr anyway; most of the people I've been watching have long migrated. Of course, one of the reasons tumblr is so popular is evidently it has absolutely no rules whatsoever, so more people are able to post NSFW art without getting in any kind of trouble for it.

 

[Schfifty]

People still aren't getting it! I hate that it's come to this, but if people keep asking me to upload SST videos, I'm going to start blocking them altogether - I can't keep going on like a broken record about why I'm no longer uploading SST content and they choose to ignore my explanations and keep asking me.

Kind of a late reply here, but yeah, I'd say blocking would be the best option. I've started to resort to that after I've been receiving tons of comments from different users saying "Do you have [this Sesame Street episode]?" or "Can you upload Episode 3916?" or things like that. It just becomes vexing when somebody asks you essentially the same thing over and over, and you don't want to deal with it anymore.

On an unrelated note, I really wish YouTube would have a character count tracker for the channel description. It'd be more convenient to see exactly how much space you have left to type on your channel description than to manually find out yourself.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

More and more people are leaving deviantART for tumblr anyway; most of the people I've been watching have long migrated. Of course, one of the reasons tumblr is so popular is evidently it has absolutely no rules whatsoever, so more people are able to post NSFW art without getting in any kind of trouble for it.

Technically the rules are that if you post NSFW, your blog is flagged and wont show up in search results unless you turn the mature content filter off. This...doesnt always work though and you still end up seeing really graphic porn in tags.

The problem with tumblr is that there are rules but they are not enforced and the community is garbage and as a tumblr user I would not recommend getting heavily involved in any fandoms unless you want 24/7 death threats. Because on tumblr DURR HURR DEATH THREATS ARE JUSTIFIED BECAUSE YOU DONT SHARE MY OPINION

If the rp community wasn't so nice in its mostly contained little bubble I would have quit that site long ago