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If the purpose is to provide alternative recommendation feeds, it’s not useless. Ever had that feeling when you go to the yt homepage and you don’t see anything you want to watch?

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Personally, I’ve never clicked on a video because I saw it on the homepage. When I open the site, I already know what kind of video I want to see and go immediately to search. Homepage recommendations have never been of use for me.

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3 points

wouldn’t the optimal way to deal with that just be a button that shows you progressively more different content the more you click it?

why would showing me green videos somehow be particularly helpful?

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10 points

It just sends you to filters at the top for the color, there are tons of others already there that you can use to find new stuff, including a „new to me“ one that will only show things you actually haven’t seen before.

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11 points

It literally just filters by colors in the thumbnail

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But why would sorting by color solve that for me?

This feels more like an interesting solo hack together project on GitHub that one can take lessons from than an enterprise solution to any sort of issue or feature request.

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Idk this seems pretty good for like a reception or something.

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Why would it be? It could easily do things like- purple video of jacaranda flowers in bloom with peaceful music, then purple video of a guy wearing all purple giving the camera the finger while death metal plays.

Color says absolutely nothing about a video’s contents.

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It’s not just colour it’s colour within what the algorithm already thinks is nice. If you only watch 4hour fish tank videos you’ll only get 4 hour fish tank videos, just with purple fish. It’s not like you have to just play this live either. Just generate the videos and add each non offensive one to a Playlist to run at the office. Sure it’s not like a killer feature, I also doubt it took much effort at all to create.

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6 points

The algorithm is far from perfect. And how would it know you were planning for a reception and wanted those kind of videos if you normally watched death metal videos?

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15 points

“Just because something can be built does not mean it should.”

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yeah that happened to me an hour ago. I chose the middle one because that was my favorite color scheme of the three choices. Result: the associated video selections were nothing special But I wonder if they took into account my algorithms I already had going, plus the blue purple color scheme 🤔

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11 points

Why would you even interact with a dumb promp like this?

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3 points

because I was curious cuz I’ve always wanted to go to promp but nobody ever asked me.

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1 point

Fair.

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107 points

Google added sorting by color on Black History Month and the world just fuckin’ watched.

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