7 comments

  • frankieg3320 minutes ago
    I made a podcast feed from YT with podsync so that I can take videos on the go. I use the playlist feature to pull them down. this feels like a great way for me to pull out only select videos. a direct way to put vids on a feed would be great, but understand if that doesnt make any sense. thanks for putting it together.<p>an option for no thumbnails, or just the first screen instead ot thumbnails + lower case titles also helps lower the lizard brain pull even further.
  • atema47 minutes ago
    I like watching streams from a few authors, but I&#x27;m not interested in their videos. Your website now shows only videos. Could you also add streams? And it would also be useful to have a setting for hiding streams and videos - for people like me.<p>Another point: it would make sense to be able to access all videos from a channel rather than the last five videos.<p>And a small thing: the channels in the Channels tab are not clickable - seems counterintuitive.
    • VJ-2-10834 minutes ago
      Thank you for the detailed feedback. Really useful.<p>On streams: I never thought about it as an use-case. Thank you for bring it up. Will look into it.<p>Showing 5 videos&#x2F;channel is intentional. Idea is to only surface latest videos and not re-create a scroll feed like Youtube. But if I get more feedback from users that it is too restrictive then I can easily make it to recent 10 or 15 videos. What do you feel as an appropriate number of recent videos per channel is?<p>Good catch on the channels tab. Currently it just manages your list. Tapping a channel to jump to their feed section is a neat idea though, will look into adding it.
  • doorpheus1 hour ago
    This is fantastic, I&#x27;ve been using the DF youtube browser extension for a while but will definitely start using this. It&#x27;s great there&#x27;s no accounts or sign-up needed.
    • VJ-2-1081 hour ago
      Thank you! Yes, no account or sign-up to reduce any friction. Please provide feedback when you use it.
  • seirim30 minutes ago
    hi, my feedback is that I would like to be able to create an account, because I have my browser (Firefox) set to always clear all cookies and history on shutdown, so when I re-open this later I assume all my added channels would be lost, and would need to start from scratch. If it wasn&#x27;t for that, I think it&#x27;s great and would use it.
    • NewJazz16 minutes ago
      Maybe wrap it in tauri?
  • alarsama1 hour ago
    This is exactly what I have been looking for. It&#x27;s way too easy to get lost in the auto-suggested videos and shorts on YouTube. It was also always a hassle keeping up a local Invidious instance up and running in my homelab.<p>Thank you so much for creating this! I&#x27;ll try it out for a few days and provide feedback.
    • VJ-2-10858 minutes ago
      Glad to know you liked it. Thank you! Yes, please keep using it and provide feedback after using for few days.
      • alarsama31 minutes ago
        Some things I noticed right off the bat:<p>- I&#x27;d recommend adding a way to add multiple channels at once. The current workflow works great for adding a single channel, but it was tedious to add more than one channel. I imagine most people using this service will add many channels at the beginning.<p>- I&#x27;d like to be able to keep the same channel selections on multiple devices. Accounts and&#x2F;or sync would probably be a lot of overhead to implement. Maybe some kind of unique link that contains a list of channels, like how PCPartPicker creates unique links for each build?<p>- Someone else mentioned this, and I&#x27;d like to +1 it - clicking the channel in the Channels section does nothing, when I&#x27;d expect it to show the channel&#x27;s videos.<p>Other than that, I love it! Great work!
  • mrtesthah13 minutes ago
    This is desperately needed. I currently use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freetubeapp.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freetubeapp.io&#x2F;</a> but this seems to have more flexible deployment options.