[ddtaylor]

If anyone has a good solution to YouTube destroying all value of the Subscriptions page I am open ears. Until recently my consumption of YT was basically to go to my subscriptions page and see what new content had been released since I last watched YT.

[atomicfiredoll]

Things like FreeTube and NewPipe let you keep a subscription list, even if you watch the videos elsewhere.

Using them can be a pain with the whole cat and mouse thing, but at least it's something (for now... I wouldn't be shocked if google was partially gunning for projects like NewPipe specifically with the Android app installation changes.)

[insin]

This is also the way I use YouTube and is the main thing I made Control Panel for YouTube [1] for (well, that plus globally hiding Shorts and removing all the unwanted recommendations everywhere) - my Subscriptions page acts like an inbox of unwatched videos and everything else is hidden (most recently: the new "Most relevant" section and "Collaborations" videos with channels I'm not subscribed to).

My Subscriptions page currently has 15 videos above the fold, 5 of which are from the last 12 hours. The oldest video in that first page is 2 weeks old, and if I turn the extension off I need to press Page Down 17 times to reach it in the vanilla YouTube interface.

[1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube

[loveparade]

You could manage your subscriptions in an RSS reader, that's what I used to do. Each channel has multiple RSS feeds associated with it for different types of videos (live, vod, etc).

[nonethewiser]

>Until recently my consumption of YT was basically to go to my subscriptions page and see what new content had been released since I last watched YT.

What is your subscription page now?

I just checked mine and its just an ordered list of videos from channels I subscribe to ordered by most recent.

[ddtaylor]

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656418

Its still like this. Sadly mobile is the only place I get a "real" subscriptions page, probably because I'm using ReVanced.

[porjo]

I use https://porjo.github.io/freshtube/ almost daily. It requires a Google API key but only have to set it once.

[a96]

Well, it's a semi nuclear one, but https://github.com/woefe/ytcc

[01jonny01]

Skipvids.com recreates the old youtube subscription page experience pretty well.

[try-working]

you can use lurkkit.com to build your own chronological youtube feed with only your subscriptions

[jeffbee]

That's ... exactly what the subscriptions feed does right now?

[ddtaylor]

The subscriptions page was changed about a month ago. It now shows the videos in the top as "Relevant", which includes a list of videos from the ~12 days that are being suggested to you. After that is a real list of chronologically ordered videos, but videos are not listed twice. This means if the video appears in the first list (as "relevant") then it will not be shown in the second list.

The end result is that the subscriptions page now shows videos "in order", but the order is wrong. My current subscription page shows a video from 14 hours ago, then a video from 9 days ago, then one from 5 days ago, then 6 days ago, and then 1 day ago.

Honestly, I feel like `yt-dlp` does a better job of this with this command:

    yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome --flat-playlist https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

[deadbeef7f]

My subscription feed now has a row of 3 videos labeled "priority", then a row of 3 videos labeled "latest", then a row of "Shorts," then it appears to continue on with the "latest" but there's no label.

This is from memory so I may have got something wrong. And I could be an A/B test subject as this has been new as of a few weeks. There's also a "More..." fold or two in there.

This pattern does not represent how I use the product. I do not watch shorts and I don't know how or why they mark things as a priority. I want to know what's newest and the time ordered list being deprioritized in the UI and fractured makes that worse.