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by zorrb 4001 days ago
A common use case (and I'd imagine most common use case) is someone building an app from scratch. Usually this takes more than one video. The videos on the user page, and on the main video viewing page do not have a date.

So now it's almost impossible to watch old videos in order. I saw some interesting series I wanted to check out, but clicked around trying to find the beginning and could not find out which one it was and then gave up.

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Hi - frankly the usability around discovering videos right now is not great, I totally recognise that. I appreciate your suggestion and we will definitely be finding ways to improve it, including adding dates.
Even a sequence number that a video was created by that author would help hugely, if I know that Lesson 2 was #92 then I know that Lesson 3 can't be #0 through #91
I'd settle for https://www.livecoding.tv/livestreams/ actually having, well, livestreams. Nothing more frustrating when trying to watch a live stream on the live stream page and finding one that looks interesting, only to find it's not actually live.
I think that semi-enforcing a Series title and automatically adding an Episode number would help greatly.

As long as it had sensible defaults, and was easy enough to change, I think it would make everyone's life a bit easier.