There is something absolutely oddly satisfying about using this app. Though there are a handful of channel -- this feels far more "bounded" that using Youtube as is. I spend so much more time on YT over other streaming services and platforms (and have YT premium too). I feel YT natively does a very terrible job of presenting "recommendations" to me. I can't put my finger on what it is, but your cable TV style wrapper feels very home :) Couple of questions
- How did you achieve the grainy cable TV style texture on your videos ?
- Are the videos curated ? Sometimes I waste a lot of time looking for quality content, or sometimes its good quality but you just don't vibe with the presenter or their style - so you continue to click around.
My favorite part about the channels is specifically the music channels. I very much enjoy having a chance to re-listen to songs I’ve forgotten about or which aren’t in my daily rotation.
Similarly, there used to be this place called The Trees Network which essentially had a very similar “watching TV” feel, except it also had a community feature (live chat, content recommendations, etc). It was mostly meant for people getting stoned and wanting to “watch TV” together with other, but has since shut down (presumably because of copyright related issues or something)
Are you by chance planning to include any “community channels” or stuff like that by chance?
I miss the times when someone else made recommendations for you. Now I’m stuck with the same content, which I like( don’t get me wrong), but I’m pretty sure our view of music and movies is much narrower nowadays, when we’re no longer "forced" to experience different content.
It just so happens I'm right in the middle of trying to change how I watch YouTube at my computer. Despite my best efforts, I find myself getting sucked into shorts, so I'm starting investigate if I can take advantage of YouTube RSS syndication. I recently build yt-dlp and got all the dependencies sorted out, so I can bring videos to my machine locally. I'm also checking out elfeed[0] which is an Emacs based RSS reader, and elfeed-tube[1] which further customizes the elfeed experience for YouTube as well as adding an mpv integration that lets you control video playback directly from Emacs.
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- How did you achieve the grainy cable TV style texture on your videos ?
- Are the videos curated ? Sometimes I waste a lot of time looking for quality content, or sometimes its good quality but you just don't vibe with the presenter or their style - so you continue to click around.
The grainy interlace effect is just good old-fashioned CSS. :)
It is curated! I will seriously do a lot more work on making it better. Especially the music, it's a bit redundant right now.
I haven't had time to get to that. This has really blown up and even been in the news, so it's been hectic.
Similarly, there used to be this place called The Trees Network which essentially had a very similar “watching TV” feel, except it also had a community feature (live chat, content recommendations, etc). It was mostly meant for people getting stoned and wanting to “watch TV” together with other, but has since shut down (presumably because of copyright related issues or something)
Are you by chance planning to include any “community channels” or stuff like that by chance?
[0]: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed
[1]: https://github.com/karthink/elfeed-tube