This is exactly how I wish YouTube allowed me to browse for videos! Great resource. Does anyone on HN have additional resources that allow for content discovery?
I'm creating an encyclopedia based on Wikipedia, Wikidata, YouTube and many other sources of information. For each of the millions of topics in a language-wiki, the software renders a "topic card" with thematic sections, each containing links to other content. Link: https://conze.pt
This is a great resource. One thing to watch out for if you're using this to practice listening skills in a foreign language, is that not all regions seem to be tagged correctly. I clicked on Spanish, then the Mexico tag, and the top video was of someone with a Spanish accent rather than a Mexican or Latin American one.
Unfortunately all the other languages have too few results, I just checked and Greek only has 0.7% as many channels as English in the db, so it'd only be a few pages of content
The Chinese version distinguishes simplified from traditional characters. It shouldn’t do that.
The German version is a little meh. Top categories are something like “howto”. It seems like you used a very simple word-based algorithm to create the categories?
Yeah, that is something I'd love to implement but so far could not figure it out, even simply interlinking the keywords across 20 different languages is very non-trivial
This is actually pretty awesome! I think the ranking algo is doing a pretty good job. I checked a few categories I follow closely, and the top results match pretty well with how I would personally rank them. And now I'm off to explore other topics. Thanks!
This is pretty awesome. One small feedback, I noticed how there are multiple tags indicating same kind of content. for ex - "Mathematics" and "math". Combining these would be useful.
This is alright, I like the category breakdown, it makes browsing great, but its still subject to what _youtube_ considers good content. Which just results in the top content being short-form videos which provide quick-facts, not something I can actually learn with. Not necessarily a bad thing for different categories or if that is what you're seeking in the category but a consequential factor for someone seeking something outside the advertiser-friendly, profit maximizing algorithms.
I just love things the variety of things that fall outside the google-ads algos its so easy to silo our "content" from platforms like this. I browse marginalia [0] just to spice it up and see what else there is out there.
>Which just results in the top content being short-form videos which provide quick-facts, not something I can actually learn with.
Youtube also has tons of long-form 1+ hours content. There's a recent machine learning video that's 25+ hours long and it's not hidden away in obscurity. It's prominently listed on the 1st page of search results for "deep learning tutorial" : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=deep+learning+t...
As another example, I got a friend exposed to sewing channels on Youtube. Some content creators create hour-long "sew alongs" which she watches every week now to learn new techniques. It fills in a gap left behind by Public Television since they don't air sewing shows anymore.
Lots of long-form videos in car repairs, woodworking, etc.
>Youtube also has tons of long-form 1+ hours content. There's a recent machine learning video that's 25+ hours long and it's not hidden away in obscurity. It's prominently listed on the 1st page of search results for "deep learning tutorial" : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=deep+learning+t...
I would be careful with statements like this. I believe that the Youtube search results are tuned by your personal viewing history, and of course just on a general basis the results are subject to change. I don't see the video you are talking about when I do that search, but then I don't know what you mean by 'on the 1st page' since it is an infinite scroll.
Try digging deeper into the "Related Keywords" cloud at the top, the narrower is the keyword you pick, the more long-form & technical and the less pop-channell-y stuff you'll see.
Idea is great but there is a lot of overlap between the tags, e.g. there are six pages of tags for Chinese but half of them are all variants on the same tech topics (e.g. there is a separate tag for 苹果、手机、电脑、and "apple watch").
I'll add a report button, it definitely needs it. All of that data is from the the youtube channels themselves and _a lot_ of them mislabel things, even such basic ones as their channel's language.
Amazing headline. It reminds me about a joke from a Futurama episode, from the late 90s, while Fry is channel surfing intergalactic cable, "Sheesh... 40,000 channels and only 150 of them have anything good on."
If 10,000 people say this but there is little overlap in the channel preferences, suddenly 40,000 channels seems a reasonable number. Point being that there are a wide ranging number of interests, just because it isn't in your niche, doesn't mean it shouldn't be there at all.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 141 ms ] threadThe German version is a little meh. Top categories are something like “howto”. It seems like you used a very simple word-based algorithm to create the categories?
It would be cool to be able to find similar channels in other languages, but I can see how that would be challenging.
I just love things the variety of things that fall outside the google-ads algos its so easy to silo our "content" from platforms like this. I browse marginalia [0] just to spice it up and see what else there is out there.
[0] https://search.marginalia.nu/
Youtube also has tons of long-form 1+ hours content. There's a recent machine learning video that's 25+ hours long and it's not hidden away in obscurity. It's prominently listed on the 1st page of search results for "deep learning tutorial" : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=deep+learning+t...
As another example, I got a friend exposed to sewing channels on Youtube. Some content creators create hour-long "sew alongs" which she watches every week now to learn new techniques. It fills in a gap left behind by Public Television since they don't air sewing shows anymore.
Lots of long-form videos in car repairs, woodworking, etc.
EDIT ADD: the 25-hour deep learning video example is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ikDlimN6A
... which was also copied to freeCodeCamp.org channel (the 12th recently uploaded video) :
https://www.youtube.com/c/Freecodecamp/videos
I would be careful with statements like this. I believe that the Youtube search results are tuned by your personal viewing history, and of course just on a general basis the results are subject to change. I don't see the video you are talking about when I do that search, but then I don't know what you mean by 'on the 1st page' since it is an infinite scroll.
- search box on every sub page
- allow for reverse search of channels I know (so I can check out similar channels)
What source are you getting the channels from?
And how do you choose which channel goes in?
Not sure how to report an incorrect listing on your site, would be good to better surface how to do that.