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minus-squareOssay [he/him]hexbear10·1 year agomost recent example of #1 i can think of is youtube removal of the "sort by oldest" on channels they added it back very recently link
minus-squareGaveUp [she/her]cakehexagonhexbear6·edit-21 year agoThat change must've looked incredible to the people approving it People watching a higher concentration of new videos -> much more relevant current day ad targeting -> much more efficient caching since people are viewing a smaller subset of videos -> probably easier to recommend more videos to the user since there's much more new videos than old videos link
minus-squareOssay [he/him]hexbear5·1 year agoDon't forget : having to spend more time looking for an old video by scrolling increase user average session length link
most recent example of #1 i can think of is youtube removal of the "sort by oldest" on channels
they added it back very recently
That change must've looked incredible to the people approving it
People watching a higher concentration of new videos
-> much more relevant current day ad targeting
-> much more efficient caching since people are viewing a smaller subset of videos
-> probably easier to recommend more videos to the user since there's much more new videos than old videos
Don't forget : having to spend more time looking for an old video by scrolling increase user average session length