Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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  • If Chrome is at v162 and you’re at v3, people perceive the version numbers to reflect the quality and development.

    I don’t think it is the case. Ask some random person what version their browser is and they probably won’t even know how to check.

    It doesn’t matter for the vast majority of people, the only people who care are power users. And what do power users appreciate? Clear communication. If there’s a major UI change or something, bump the major version. If there’s a new feature, bump the minor version. If it’s just bug fixes, bump the patch version. Or even simpler, since Firefox has the ESR build, bump the major version whenever an ESR build is cut, bump the minor version every regular release (4 weeks?), and bump the patch version every patch release like we do now. That way I know how much the ESR build has deviated from the regular build, which is valuable information (just look at the minor version for the latest Firefox).

    How you manage versions doesn’t matter to the vast majority of people, so it should be tuned for the minority who actually kind of care, so make it mean something. A year would be fine and useful, a number that increases w/ the ESR refresh would be useful, an ever-increasing number isn’t useful. Pick one of the useful options…














  • Which is why my general rule of thumb is to avoid the top channels. Some things I especially try to avoid:

    • lots of jump cuts
    • stupid thumbnails
    • clickbait headlines

    Those are things that drive “engagement,” and going after engagement for engagement’s sake is a clear sign to me that the channel isn’t worth my time. If the channel largely avoids that crap and still manages to have a respectable subscriber count, it’s a lot more likely to be a decent channel. Some channels I really like:

    • Gamer’s Nexus
    • Digital Foundry
    • Tech Ingredients

    Each of those have high quality content, tend to avoid most of the above (still have BS thumbnails, but not nearly as bad as the big channels), and have a sizeable following. Good content absolutely exists, you just have to scrape away the crap on top to find decent channels.

    That said, I no longer use my YT account, I just subbed to everything I care about on Grayjay and Newpipe (in case one fails, and NewPipe has failed more often than not for me), and I’ll watch specific channels whenever I actually use YT’s website.