What's going on with YouTube

stuckmotor · Nov 16, 2022

One of my favorite features of Youtube has long been the buttons that allowed me to see a list of all of the presentations on a channel from newest first or oldest first. This made it essy to find a presentation when I'd forgotten it's name. I clicked on the name of the channel then Videos and found the button for oldest or newest first.

Now all I can find are (Recently uploaded) and (Popular). It appears we no longer have access to the less popular videos. Somebody please tell me I'm looking in the wrong place or confirm the bad news.

I think there's a YouTube Premium. Does anyone know whether the less popular videos available there?

ArtMech · Nov 17, 2022

Try to click on 'Manage' button on the left of 'Grid' and 'List' buttons. Is that what you are looking for?

ptsg · Nov 17, 2022

I'm afraid I'll just confirm the bad news. I do miss the those buttons from oldest or newest.

As far as the Premium, I don't know as I never used it.

Wakey · Nov 17, 2022

I just checked the settings also. No bueno.

duffer · Nov 17, 2022

stuckmotor said:
Now all I can find are (Recently uploaded) and (Popular). It appears we no longer have access to the less popular videos. Somebody please tell me I'm looking in the wrong place or confirm the bad news.

Not 100% sure if I understand your problem, but if you do a search for a TV Series (for example like NCIS), it will show all the different versions of NCIS. New Orleans, reg NCIS, etc. If you click on the series you want, there is a listing above the thumbnails indicating which season you want to watch. Click on the season, and they are listed in chronilogical order.
Hope that helps.

PS. Edit: I was referring to YT TV not YT website. I think the OP was referring to the YT website where anybody can upload videos of their own.

5030 · Nov 17, 2022

YT is in a long, slow demise.

stuckmotor · Nov 17, 2022

duffer said:
Not 100% sure if I understand your problem, but if you do a search for a TV Series (for example like NCIS), it will show all the different versions of NCIS. New Orleans, reg NCIS, etc. If you click on the series you want, there is a listing above the thumbnails indicating which season you want to watch. Click on the season, and they are listed in chronilogical order.
Hope that helps.

It appears that YouTube has taken down the less popular videos. I was hoping they'd only changed the way they're accessed. Your explanation could be helpful later on. Thanks.

5030 · Nov 17, 2022

The demise of YT is mostly from the exodus of advertisers that you get while watching video's.

stuckmotor · Nov 17, 2022

5030 said:
YT is in a long, slow demis'e.

They're reminding me of Yahoo.

LittleBill21 · Nov 17, 2022

is this on PC? I see 0 changes in looking at a creators video's from newest to oldest.

stuckmotor · Nov 17, 2022

ArtMech said:
Try to click on 'Manage' button on the left of 'Grid' and 'List' buttons. Is that what you are looking for?

I can't even find the manage button.

drssg · Nov 17, 2022

Are you sure that "Recently uploaded" is not the same as the previous button you used to view all videos for the channel, with the most recent listed first?

I just checked a channel that I watch, and "recent" goes back years. I *think* it still contains all the videos for that channel.

stuckmotor · Nov 17, 2022

LittleBill21 said:
is this on PC? I see 0 changes in looking at a creators video's from newest to oldest.

This is encouraging.. I'm on a tablet I'll try my wife's laptop.

stuckmotor · Nov 17, 2022

drssg said:
Are you sure that "Recently uploaded" is not the same as the previous button you used to view all videos for the channel, with the most recent listed first?

I just checked a channel that I watch, and "recent" goes back years. I *think* it still contains all the videos for that channel.

I tried too check but since I couldn't remember the title of the video I was looking for didn't have any luck. Part of it just came to me. I'll try again. Thanks!

stuckmotor · Nov 17, 2022

drssg said:
Are you sure that "Recently uploaded" is not the same as the previous button you used to view all videos for the channel, with the most recent listed first?

I just checked a channel that I watch, and "recent" goes back years. I *think* it still contains all the videos for that channel.

I tried to check,, but since I couldn't remember the title of the episode I was looking for had no luck. Part of the title has come to me. I'll try again. Thank you.

Oaktree · Nov 17, 2022

stuckmotor said:
It appears that YouTube has taken down the less popular videos. I was hoping they'd only changed the way they're accessed.

I'm not sure what a youtube channel is, but another reason videos get taken down is because of copyright infringements. They can sometimes be a bit arbitrary on that.

5030 said:
The demise of YT is mostly from the exodus of advertisers that you get while watching video's.

I use an adblocker, so I don't see the ads in the first place.
I don't see them going away anytime soon. Yes, advertising is way down, but the economy is in the tank and all ad-supported media is feeling the pinch, be it radio, tv or stream. Have you noticed that most of the breaks on ad supported streaming sites contain a lot more promos for other shows/co-owned channels than actual paid ads?

/pine · Nov 17, 2022

5030 said:
The demise of YT is mostly from the exodus of advertisers that you get while watching video's.

YT and YTTV are hardly in demise...they recently hit the 5 million paying subscriber milestone for live TV...
They are making some changes...Google has some of the brightest programmers in the industry...they just need to put a few of them to work on the navigation and the intuitiveness of their interfaces...!

stuckmotor · Nov 18, 2022

stuckmotor said:
I found what I was looking for through a YouTube search. Being able to sort the presentations by the order in which they were put up is what I'm used to but I'm learning to get along without that feature. Thanks to all who have commented

stuckmotor · Nov 18, 2022

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drssg said:
Are you sure that "Recently uploaded" is not the same as the previous button you used to view all videos for the channel, with the most recent listed first?

I just checked a channel that I watch, and "recent" goes back years. I *think* it still contains all the videos for that channel.

I looked through the " Recently Uploaded" videos of one channel and didn't notice anything missing. To be sure, I'd need a list of all of the videos that channel ever had up.