YouTube Channels
This is a little javascript feed that grabs the latest video from some of my favorite YouTube channels. In a way, this also doubles as some channel recommendations.
Why?
Some channels upload every day. Some upload once a year. In Youtube’s standard subcription feed, the videos from the former completely drown out the videos from the latter. This is especially problematic because those rare uploads are often the ones I want to watch the most.
A better model for a subscription feed is to display the latest upload from each channel. The FreeTube on desktop does something like this, but I wanted a version that I could easily pull up on my phone.
I’ve set the feed to update once a week via github actions. An added “benefit” of this setup is that there’s no skinner-box incentive to refresh the page for updates.