On: The beauty of finished software

[willsmith72]

Nice in theory, not in practice.

YouTube was already a great video sharing and recommending website in 2005, but if it still looked like this, it would be dead.

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/youtube-website

[godshatter → willsmith72]

YouTube without the algorithm? Sign me up.

[yread → willsmith72]

Hah I've tried to find some of the videos featured on the homepage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=C-JrfjVjHAY

It has crazy stats: 18 years old and only 3.7K views!

I wonder were the compression artifacts this bad when the video was uploaded or has it been recompressed a bit too many times? Still groovy tho

[landgenoot → yread]

I think the quality was that bad already.

I have uploaded my first YouTube video in October 2006. The quality is still as day one.

However, some comments seem to have disappeared. I can only see my reactions to those comments.

[snapcaster → willsmith72]

This version had literally everything I need haha, wish it had stayed like this