[HN Gopher] YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby
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       YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby
        
       I was navigating around YouTube and found a channel I wanted to
       watch its most popular videos and have noticed they added back the
       oldest option!
        
       Author : stefanos82
       Score  : 91 points
       Date   : 2023-06-20 21:17 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | panick21_ wrote:
       | I so wish youtube would have a more powerful search.
       | 
       | Can I have something better then 'longer then 20min'? Like there
       | are tons of things that go up to 3h or more. And often I might
       | want 1h content but the 'longer then 20min' shows tons of stuff
       | that is some 22min video.
        
       | blondin wrote:
       | i see it too.
       | 
       | i have sent numerous feedback asking for a sort by length in
       | playlists. that feature doesn't seem to align with their vision
       | of good playlist management somehow.
        
       | paulpauper wrote:
       | youtube disables features to maximize revenue. older videos are
       | less profitable for google compared to newer ones . creators are
       | likely to have optimized later videos for watchability compared
       | to earlier ones.
        
         | jamcrimer wrote:
         | so you're saying they're disabling the feature of "not being
         | able to watch old videos" to maximize revenue?
        
       | legrande wrote:
       | Still no way to see how many videos are in a channel though?
       | Unless I need to pay more attention.
        
         | iamevn wrote:
         | On the android app at least, the video count is next to
         | subscriber count below the name and above the description on
         | the channel's page.
        
         | stefanos82 wrote:
         | It can be found on top of the channel of your choice, right
         | below channel name, right next to channel @ChannelName.
        
       | BasedAnon wrote:
       | Now for them to bring back the 5 star rating system and video
       | replies!
        
         | stefanos82 wrote:
         | ...and the dislike counting! I don't want to depend on an
         | extension to know whether a video worth to watch or not.
        
       | SllX wrote:
       | Doesn't seem to have hit the iPad app yet and I don't have any
       | updates pending at the moment, but this is still excellent news.
       | Thanks for the heads up!
        
       | sieabahlpark wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | johnchristopher wrote:
       | OT: I wish there was a way to create a playlist from music
       | youtube suggestions. I am losing some good things when
       | accidentally closing a tab.
        
         | stefanos82 wrote:
         | I use Firefox and more than often I restore last closed tabs
         | (by mistake like you!) with Ctrl+Shift+T.
         | 
         | Of course, there's History and "Restore Previous Session" which
         | saves you from countless nightmares when the next time you boot
         | your computer you want to restore what you last viewed or had
         | opened.
         | 
         | It helps immensely!
        
           | johnchristopher wrote:
           | Youtube music will replace the playlist with new suggestions
           | (it makes a new playlist with the first song being the one
           | that was playing or on pause when the tab was closed), so
           | even though the tab gets restored its content doesn't.
           | 
           | Mixes and user playlist are different from suggestion
           | playlists.
        
         | stefanos82 wrote:
         | > OT: I wish there was a way to create a playlist from music
         | youtube suggestions. I am losing some good things when
         | accidentally closing a tab.
         | 
         | How about hover on each suggestion and add it to "Watch Later"
         | or even Queue? That also works, at least for me.
        
       | rasz wrote:
       | Its just you, one of Google targetted experiments
        
         | stefanos82 wrote:
         | Can you clear your cookies for YouTube only and try again? It
         | could help.
        
           | incomplete wrote:
           | just cleared my cookies, re-logged in, and no ability to sort
           | by oldest. :(
        
             | stefanos82 wrote:
             | Have patience, it will get visible to all users eventually.
             | 
             | This extension
             | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sort-by-
             | oldest/mig... added (logically yesterday, if we see its
             | date in description) an End of Life announcement due to the
             | return of this option.
        
       | rtsil wrote:
       | I see it as well, on chrome and firefox, across different YT
       | accounts.
        
       | belfalas wrote:
       | I see the option in their mobile app as well.
        
       | LeoNatan25 wrote:
       | I have it, and it certainly wasn't there yesterday. Thanks for
       | the tip!
        
       | TheAceOfHearts wrote:
       | I wish you could sort by views within certain time frames. I've
       | written a JS snippet to help do this in the past, but it's crazy
       | to me that this isn't implemented natively.
       | 
       | My use-case is wanting to check out the top videos from a
       | specific time frame. I'll periodically check in on some channels
       | or niche interest, and I just wanna get a sense of their top
       | videos.
       | 
       | For example, I don't watch League of Legends regularly, but I
       | like to check out the occasional VOD, and if I'm gonna watch a
       | random game I'll probably get a good game by picking one with a
       | lot of views within the last 2 or 3 months.
       | 
       | Other times I might go a year or two without listening to an
       | artist and I wanna check out their most popular videos in that
       | time frame.
        
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