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A few days ago I was using a app I wrote to open YouTube pages for Woodwork,News & other sites
It started showing the thumbnails much larger and only 3 across with a lot of other format changes.
I thought I had a code error which seemed impossible as I have been using the app for more than a year.
It seems Google decided to change the thumbnail from 4 across and smaller thumbnails to
3 across and very large thumbnails. OK Why care your not in charge and don't have a YouTube channel get over it!
Someone please tell me I am wrong but wouldn't lager thumbnails require more time to load and use more resource on either end?
They also removed the "Watch Later" option
I saw no complaints by Content Creators like NBC or PBS could care
Also no Woodworking Channels made any mention. Guess too scared of being kicked off YouTube!
Google also closed the YouTube Feedback page about Experiments not really novel
If you know people will be unHAPPY and complain just become deft
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Hey, it's their site - they can change it as they like.
If you scrape a site, it's at your own risk - the site owner isn't obliged to support you, help you, or keep things the same to be convenient to you! Instead, use the YouTube Data API | Google for Developers[^] - that way you should (and probably do) get a consistent, stable way to access content data without having to scrape the site.
You should notice that YouTube does change the site quite often, both visibly and "behind the scenes" at least in part to bugger with the "against the terms and conditions" coders who intercept the stream and thus permit downloads (which the T&Cs specifically forbid).
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NO Site Scraping I just save a link URL in SQLite DB
and open the site
I tried to write a NET version where I would get notified when a new
video was uploaded Way over my programming ability
This database tells me last time I visited the site
after a while you get on to the rhythm creators post new stuff
Thanks for the API link need to take a look
YES it is their site but I would have thought larger thumbnails
would be less desirable in terms of time to load and storage
but I guess they only permit certain size thumbnails and making
it larger is not really a issue
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As far as I know, the thumbnails could be uploaded by Youtuber. Youtube gives content creators the option to upload their thumbnails. I know because I upload videos and thumbnails onto my Youtube channel. This is why some video's thumbnail is misleading and baits the viewer into viewing the video for the juicy content shown on the thumbnail but is not found in the entire video.
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You are correct the Channel Owner uploads the Thumbnail BUT
in this case all 400 Channels I have links for in my little app
that stores the URL to the Channel when used to connect to the
Channel YouTube was changing the Video Page Format
I doubt the Channel Owners were making the change
This experiment only lasted 4 to 5 days and the format was changed back
so I doubt some Content Creators even noticed
The issue got a little traction on Redit
I do not mind change if it is for the better in this case I did not see
any advantage for the end user or the content creator
Side note to see current thumbnails you needed to click to scroll right
for more content The mosaic layout of thumbnails IMHO is the more friendly UI
Thanks for your reply
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Choroid wrote: but wouldn't lager thumbnails require more time to load
Just a random thought but I suspect it is likely that users of youtube now have faster internet and better devices than they did 10 years ago. So increasing the size for aesthetics versus performance might be why.
And then why not keep it? Maybe they were collecting performance and/or click through stats for a test. Now the test is done.
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I have little doubt about this
Quote: Maybe they were collecting performance and/or click through stats for a test
I have noticed Content Creators are continually asking you to stick around till the end of the video.
Some and very few complain about the antilogarithm being unfair to new channels at least in the
Woodworking community. Some promote other new creators on their channels which I find admirable.
In the woodworking genre it started with teaching and sharing how to advice.
Some have moved to constant tool reviews and buy my plans and visit my Amazon affiliate link.
That is OK but not what the novice table saw owner/builder needs. Why & How often omitted so buy my plans
Guess that is why we have Woodworking Schools ?
Here is a guy building a Armoire we are up to 11 video's he explains every cut and design reason.
https://www.youtube.com/@KRWoodworks/videos[^]
Also why he is using clamps that are $48.00 each
Real dedication to the novice viewer
Thanks for the comment and your point of view
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Many games have a "fog of war" and thought mine should too. It seems so obvious: blacken the screen (somehow). While I came up with a plan I decided to let (Bing) AI have a go:
Quote: Here are some ways to implement fog of war in a game:
Create a layer for the fog of war and cache a version of the world map (or sections) image(s) with a black+alpha rectangle applied to it. You can also apply a blur filter in this stage.
Use a tablet or laptop for each player, which tracks which parts of a common map the player uncovers.
Use a set of color-coded flip tokens with abstract symbols. Every area of the game board gets one token per player.
(That's what I thought.)
Instead, in the frame update cycle, when I look at each control, I vary their opacity based on the vicinity of foes and limits of sight (distance and contour) and which team is currently active (selected POV).
About 20 minutes to implement using my existing targeting routine, and looks amazingly well as troops "come into view".
You suddenly realize you have a functional framework.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: and thought mine should too.
What is your game? Is it available somewhere that we can see it?
What kind of game is it? War simulation, I'm guessing.
Tell us more.
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It's a UWP implementation of the rules of Kriegsspiel (1824-1882). I plan to release it in the Windows Store. It's a question of where to stop. It's a simulator; teaching tool (strategy; tactics; evolutions); a war "game"; etc. Looking to add Bluetooth multi-player.
Kriegsspiel – How a 19th Century Table-Top War Game Changed History - MilitaryHistoryNow.com
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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This morning, as is usual on the second Wednesday of the month, there was a major update for Windows 11. As usual, I ran sfc /scannow after the update, to check for corrupt system files. As usual after an update, sfc reported it found and repaired corrupt files!
Why do I often end up with corrupt system files after major updates?
By the way: I run the following two system commands as admministrator to check system files:
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
followed by:
sfc /scannow
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Updates pushed out on Patch Tuesdays can reasonably be expected to replace OS files. SFC compares your OS files with, what, OS files as they exist on the distribution media? If so, then it seems obvious it would find mismatches. But does that mean the new files are, in fact, corrupt? Are you not in effect undoing what the patch is intended to do?
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After the files have been repaired, I run "check for updates" and it reports I am up to date - with the repaired files! I don't have any indication that the repair will undo the patch? Difficult to be sure!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I can see how SFC could roll back an update's OS files, but Windows Update itself might not be aware the files have subsequently been replaced, and so - when checking for updates - all WU can tell you is that updates have been installed and it'll happily report everything's hunky dory.
I don't know if MS has ever fully documented what's supposed to be taking place...as such, if I have to run SFC after updating the OS...is the OS still up to date? Who knows, I avoid using SFC as its expected behavior under those circumstances is dubious at best (IMNSHO)...
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Hip shot here...
The way corruption is often detected is to compare the CRC of the known good file to the CRC sitting on disk.
In the case of an update, it's maybe reasonable that the local table of known good CRCs doesn't contain the most recent information.
It might be that what is happening isn't changing the file to fix the corruption but rather updating the CRC in the known good CRC table by fetching the latest known good CRC from an online resource.
I don't know, but this makes way more sense than windows update writing bad data to disk on the regular.
Another possibility is that you have a failing drive or drive controller.
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"Quote: In the case of an update, it's maybe reasonable that the local table of known good CRCs doesn't contain the most recent information.
I'd think the update process should handle this. When I deploy new embedded builds to products, the process includes updated CRCs. Then again, we are discussing Microsoft and Windows 11, so, YMMV.
OP - why do you do this after updates? Is there something wrong after updates? I'm typing this on a 5 yo laptop running Windows 10 Pro that has been updated so many times I've lost count. I've never run a disk check after updates.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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fantastic: [^] Quote: “In talking with the press, Joanna Aizenberg, a Bell Labs scientist and the lead author of the study, likens the brittlestar to a digital camera that builds up a picture pixel by pixel. In this exchange, one quickly loses track of whether the digital camera is a metaphor for brittlestar vision or the reverse, especially as the metaphor begins to take on a strikingly material form:
'Instead of trying to come up with new ideas and technology, we can learn from this marine creature .... The [calcitic] lenses surround the whole body, looking in all different directions and providing peripheral vision to the organism .... This is the quality we all want to incorporate in optical devices, in cameras in particular. Instead of having one lens pointing in one direction, you could have thousands of lenses pointing in different directions. This will give you perhaps a 360-degree view of the whole space.'
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Sailor posted missing (6)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nice and easy!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OK OK this has gone on long enough...
AB Sailor
SENT posted
ABSENT missing
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I just came back to take it if nobody had, and ... well done!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I got it immediately I saw it, not long after your first reply to Pete. Decided to hold off for a while.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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YAUT
Sorry for late response I was driving
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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