How would you improve YouTube?

[Vynith]

So let's say you magically was in charge of YouTube how would you improve it?

Perhaps allowing NSFW?



Fun fact: YouTube was originally a dating website.

 

[Monkey D. Luffy]

I would bring back the dating site origin story

 

[Gogol]

So let's say you magically was in charge of YouTube how would you improve it?

I would bring back dislikes count. I would get rid of shorts. Otherwise YT works just fine for me.

Perhaps allowing NSFW?

Why?
Do we have shortage of such platforms? Leave YT alone.

 

[The Volatile]

I'd probably focus less on adding NSFW content and more on giving creators better control over recommendations, monetization, and content discovery.

 

[moonshine7000]

If I was in charge of YouTube raise the authority score of my channels to suck all of the that traffic lol
authority_score=100
shadowban Mr beast =true

 

[kingade1]

I’d improve YouTube’s recommendation system so smaller channels with good content have a better chance of being discovered.

I’d also make the moderation and demonetization rules clearer, because creators often don’t know exactly what caused a video to be limited.

I wouldn’t allow general NSFW content, but I think YouTube could have clearer age restricted categories for mature content.

 

[SirTop]

Fun fact: YouTube was originally a dating website.

I didn't believe you, so I checked

 

[Monkey D. Luffy]

I didn't believe you, so I checked

I also checked it

 

[711Proxy_]

Lower the barrier for small creators. Give new voices a fair shot instead of feeding the same top 1% all the traffic.

 

[Zephyroo]

honestly i would fix the search algorithm. right now yt search is pretty much dead for anyone trying to do actual seo. they just push recommended videos from massive channels even if the content barely matches what you typed in. makes it almost impossible to rank new stuff organically unless you already have a following or drive external traffic to trigger the system... which kinda defeats the purpose of having a search bar.

 

[Vynith]

I didn't believe you, so I checked

see bro I know.

honestly i would fix the search algorithm. right now yt search is pretty much dead for anyone trying to do actual seo. they just push recommended videos from massive channels even if the content barely matches what you typed in. makes it almost impossible to rank new stuff organically unless you already have a following or drive external traffic to trigger the system... which kinda defeats the purpose of having a search bar.

I agree search on YouTube is pretty garbage but most views come from homepage and suggested videos anyway.

 

[dark.house]

Probably I would be more concerned about giving better controls for monetization and recommendations to the creators rather than concentrating on NSFW issues. Discovery mechanism would have been more helpful for the users than any random algorithms.