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iPad Air 3 aging subscriptions

Channel Surfer Bookmarklet Bug Report Instructions: 1. Paste this entire report into https://channelsurfer.featurebase.app/ 2. Add a short note describing what went wrong Error: No unwatched videos found for this page structure. URL: https://m.youtube.com/feed/channels?ra=m Page Title: All subscriptions - YouTube User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 18_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.4 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 Skipped watched videos: 0 Renderer count: 0 Renderer tags: {} Page Header Snapshot: Renderer Snapshots: (none) I’m on an iPad Air 3, trying to add my subscriptions.

Ken Decker 24 days ago

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Not sure I'm doing this right

So, I’ve recently started trying to import my own channels. The site says you can use the bookmarklet on any channel or playlist, however, I’m running into issues with both. On channels, when I try to use the bookmarklet it separates the videos of the channel into weird individual channels and adds videos NOT from the channel I’m trying to scan. For example, I’ll open up PBS’s YT channel and click on the bookmarklet, it’ll then give me like 6 channels separated into like “11k views” or “15k views” and “PBS Learning” even though all the videos are uploaded by PBS’s YT channel. And then as I scroll down I’ll find videos from random other channels, some I’m subscribed to and some I’m not. When I try to use the bookmarklet on a playlist, it just fully doesn’t work and only gives me error messages and says it can’t scan the playlist or that the bookmarklet isn’t working. Is this maybe only functional on certain browsers? I’m using Firefox as my browser. I’m just a bit confused and would like to figure out how I can use this correctly.

g 25 days ago

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Completed

Report for Review

I’ve been loving the site thus far - it’s a pleasant feeling of nostalgia. It’d be great if there’d be some way to Report a channel to be reviewed- for example "Big A” has not been a gaming channel for months and yet he seems to appear quite frequently with exclusively political content in the gaming channel. If there’d be a way to help curate the content seen it’d be appreciated.

SmugBia 29 days ago

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Suggestion for a wrestling channel

Hello, really love the project! One channel I'd love to see added is pro wrestling. Pretty much all the big promotions (WWE, AEW, TNA, NJPW, ROH) have active English YouTube channels with a constant stream of content, highlights, promos, full matches, etc. It should be relatively straightforward to pull from those as a source. Wrestling has a big dedicated fanbase and honestly feels like a perfect fit for the lean-back vibe of the app. Would love to see it added at some point!

Nicolás Araya Valdés about 1 month ago

Smart TV Schedule Creation

Hey, so I’m new to this whole featurebase forum, but I had an idea that I thought was worth discussing for implementation. Right now, I know that Channel Surfer lets someone import playlists as TV channels, but I was wondering if that feature could be expanded to make a smart schedule of youtube videos for a single day based on a group of youtubers that the user selects. As a simplified example, there are 24 hours in a day. The User could select let’s say 4-5 youtubers they like in a variety of genres. Personally, I watch game reviewers, gameplay videos and cartoon/animation deep dives. If I picked the youtubers ToonarificTariq, JacksepticEye,Northernlion and SuperEyepatchWolf, Channel Surfer would scan their upload list and the durations of the videos, and package them together so that a mix of those same videos play in those 24 hours. Obviously, I’m not stupid enough to forget how complex creating that 24 hour schedule would be. I’d have to consider things like: Peak times. no one actually watches 24 hours of tv consecutively. Gameplay vids of a game that are split into multiple parts. the algorithm would need some way to handle a gameplay series so that the first part is first, and the second part either plays right after, or in the same timeslot the next day. The videos might not even add up to 24 hours. In this case, I think you could just put on a lofi stream on youtube to cover the time. Like how old channels had times between 3-4 am where the channel just showed a screensaver with some elevator music. Making sure each youtuber you added to the TV Schedule is represented equally. this would probably be some weighted metric between video count and total duration of all uploads. Some way to make sure that the same videos aren’t repeated, like how Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network would run repeats of spongebob and teen titans go respectively. A bunch of other minor stuff to make sure that the viewing experience isn’t compromised. Even taking those into account, I don’t think there’s really any major roadblock that should make implementing this feature impossible? In essence, it’d basically be making a custom youtube playlist but one where you can’t choose which point to jump in. But TV is good because you don’t need to choose anyways. Plus, the idea has plenty of layers for expansion as well, like sharing your custom channel with other watchers for a more communal experience like in the old days.

Taimoor Azam about 1 month ago

In Progress

Smarter video importing and channel creation

Users want Channel Surfer to support more advanced importing and curation instead of just mirroring YouTube channels. Requests include: group videos into themed channels instead of source channels support sub-categories within themes let users create a custom channel from multiple YouTube channels import a playlist as one channel add more curated channel types like sports, news, gaming, comedy, kids, weird/surreal, and live/current-event content This would make Channel Surfer feel more like real TV programming and less like a thin wrapper around YouTube.

Steven about 1 month ago

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