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I want to see at a glance the trends + subscriptions (and the subscriptions that are gaining momentum\u002Fare popular). I don't…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"12030612","neonbat","these are the changes as per the about page: Essential YouTube is an experiment to improve user experience by stripping the redundant away and focusing on the essentials.…",{"value":62,"source":51,"evidence":63},"Maker wanted a cleaner YouTube interface and called it an experiment",[64,65],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},[67],{"value":68,"source":51,"evidence":69},"JavaScript",[70,74],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"12030642","Dachande663","Love that you can read the entire source in a few hundred lines of dead simple JS[1]. [1] https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fboramalper\u002FEssential-YouTube\u002Fblob\u002Fmaster\u002Findex.js",{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"12030760","krat0sprakhar","Came here just to say this. Pleasantly surprised to see front-end project without a package.json, a bundler, a UI library. Even the templating is inline!","open_source","prototype","unknown",{"praise":82,"objections":110,"requests":150,"questions":185,"alternatives":201},[83,88,99],{"value":84,"source":51,"evidence":85},"Lean codebase with no package.json, bundler or UI library",[86,87],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},{"value":89,"source":51,"evidence":90},"Fast loading compared to YouTube",[91,95],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"12030984","cmlaverdiere","Thanks for this! Youtube is terribly slow on my computer but this loads instantly.",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"12064817","impe83","Pretty cool and lean!",{"value":100,"source":51,"evidence":101},"Clean, simple interface",[102,106],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"12032002","pmontra","Clean interface but it made me (re)discover that the related videos are really useful. When a video is over here is like \"what now?\" and I have to go back to the search page. It…",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"12030749","andy_ppp","A Chrome plugin to redirect any youtube URLs to this would be great :-)",[111,118,125,136],{"value":112,"source":51,"evidence":113},"Hiding the video during search is confusing",[114],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"12030817","wjoe","\"Features: Disruption-free Search The video keeps playing even while you are searching\" When I do a search, the audio of the video keeps playing, and there is a working seek bar…",{"value":119,"source":51,"evidence":120},"Search result titles are truncated",[121],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"12108036","bradezone","Really dislike how titles are truncated after a fairly small number of words. 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I'm not even thinking of having an account and storing them there, but just to have a long URL that lists a bunch of videos to be played.",{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"value":168,"source":51,"evidence":169},"Show video fill the page without extra elements",[170],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"12031625","jasonkostempski","I've deleted my YouTube account and started using RSS to subscribe to channels. If I could get it to open to this page instead I think I'd have just about the exact experience…",{"value":175,"source":51,"evidence":176},"Use HTML template tags instead of inline JS templates",[177,181],{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"12031229","mediumdeviation","The template being inline is a bug, not a feature in my opinion. You can actually write arbitrary templates into HTML using \u003Cscript type='text\u002Ftemplate'> (or really any type…",{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"12032493","fnaticshank","I agree writing templates into JS like that is plain ugly. Using HTML5 template[1] tag is a better way to go. I used it in a fun project[2] and it works flawlessly in all modern…",[186,194],{"value":187,"source":51,"evidence":188},"Is this allowed by Google's terms?",[189,193],{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"12030724","mk89","Amazing! Is this allowed by Google?",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},{"value":195,"source":51,"evidence":196},"Does it work with a URL scheme similar to YouTube?",[197],{"id":198,"by":199,"text":200},"12031232","arturventura","Allow me to go to your page just by entering a different domain, meaning having a URL schema similar to that of youtube, that would make things much simpler.",[202,209,216,223],{"value":203,"source":51,"evidence":204},"NewPipe Android app",[205],{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},"12030790","bgaluszka","Not sure what specifically you're looking for in such an app but I'm using https:\u002F\u002Fnewpipe.schabi.org\u002F.",{"value":210,"source":51,"evidence":211},"Unreddit",[212],{"id":213,"by":214,"text":215},"12031251","jswny","Yeah that's one of the reasons it is so simple and easy to use a service like http:\u002F\u002Funreddit.com\u002F. 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