[adhoc_slime]

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.

[0] https://search.marginalia.nu/

[jasode]

>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.

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

[kencausey]

>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.

[askytb]

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.