Tube
Consumer and social
video streaming front end
SHOW HN2018
220points
111comments
#153of 2,155 in 2018
Top 8%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
14 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 13 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Execution: 1 for, 7 againstIdea: 4 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Simple and effective, cuts distraction
From 3 comments
First, I'm probably not the only one but I find ads really annoying. Also, I always find myself spending so much time on Youtube when I was just coming for one video, that can be…
mariedm on HNvery cool. i prefer this than then the real one. YT has too much fluff and rabbit hole material
Bulbasaur2015 on HNMinimalist != ugly and unuseful.
semasad on HN
Exactly what was wanted
From 2 comments
I have wanted exactly this for over a year. Thank you for making it.
Douger on HNThis is freaking perfect. Thank you
of on HN
Objections
Search results are poor and irrelevant
From 2 comments
I searched for "darkest dungeon" and first hits were for Ed Sheeran and One Direction. I know searching is a tricky problem, but this is ridiculously bad.
gnuvince on HNThis does not work for me. No matter what I search for I get the same results, namely, Marvel Studios' Avengers, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, etc.
mysterypie on HN
Shows recommendations and lacks comments
From 1 comment
I'm seeing a permanent back arrow overlapping the video itself. Don't cover up the screen. At the end of the video, it still shows recommendations. Do you have any control over…
drivers99 on HN
Possible YouTube ToS violation
From 1 comment
IANAL but I think this might be a violation of YouTube ToS
nerdymanchild on HN
Site appeared down or unresponsive
From 1 comment
Does this seem down for anyone else? All my requests seem to be "pending" in Chrome's network tab.
tejasmanohar on HN
Requests
Open source the code
From 1 comment
This is awesome! Is the code available as open source anywhere? I might be interested in making my own personal deployment because I think youtube is far too distracting
laylomo on HN
Add playlists, channels and search filters
From 1 comment
I would look at Youtube Feather. It was a stripped-down version of Youtube Google made several years back. Sadly it's discontinued now. I think you've gone too far. Tearing out…
asfgionio on HN
Show comments
From 1 comment
I'm seeing a permanent back arrow overlapping the video itself. Don't cover up the screen. At the end of the video, it still shows recommendations. Do you have any control over…
drivers99 on HN
Remove recommendations at end of video
From 1 comment
I'm seeing a permanent back arrow overlapping the video itself. Don't cover up the screen. At the end of the video, it still shows recommendations. Do you have any control over…
drivers99 on HN
Questions
How does it work behind the scenes?
From 1 comment
This is so great! Could you tell us a bit about how it works behind the scenes?
pandasun on HN
Why is the aspect ratio odd on videos?
From 1 comment
Why is the aspect ratio of the videos weird? Fixed height, ~100% width? Why not 16:9 of window-size?
tobyhinloopen on HN
Alternatives named
youtube-dl with mpv or VLC
From 3 comments
For some time I've been tinkering with a script which manages my own fine-grained youtube subscription preferences, periodically scrapes various pages for metadata, and then as…
RodgerTheGreat on HNyoutube-dl is really cool, and supports loads of sites as well as just youtube. VLC can also play youtube URLs directly, although buffering can be annoying. There's also a Python…
chriswarbo on HNI've been a youtube-dl fan for a long time -- it was essential whilst traveling a few years ago with suboptimal 3G bandwidth... these days I usually just paste the URL in to a…
lozf on HN
Invidious
From 1 comment
Looks nice, very similar to https://invidio.us/ https://github.com/omarroth/invidious (written in Crystal)
007lva on HN
HookTube and HookRSSTube
From 1 comment
Not sure how much you'd benefit from it, given that you've already got a good setup, but I just made a website called HookRSSTube[0] that essentially proxies YouTube RSS feeds…
doomrobo on HN
NewPipe
From 1 comment
Kind of tangential, but I am enjoying NewPipe[0], which can be installed from F-droid. Background audio, video on overlay mode so you can watch it while using some other app,…
jaipilot747 on HN
mps-youtube
From 1 comment
If you like youtube-dl you should check out mps-youtube (https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube) which has the ability to use youtuble-dl as the backend I'm pretty sure (i…
arca_vorago on HN