No Stupid Questions

I haven't checked it out in a while but the problem I had with the subscriptions feed was that a lot of videos don't show up there. Sometimes it would take weeks for a new upload to actually show up in the feed, while some channels just never appeared there. IIRC, YouTube stated that this was at least partially intentional.

I checked some channels and I didn't see any videos that were missing but I don't really have the patients to check every channel I'm subbed to. Although, I'm subbed to over 150 channels on YouTube but the feed didn't seem to have a lot of videos posted in the past week.

Regardless of whether they fixed it or not, assuming YouTube still offers them, the RSS feeds were always reliable for me.

Why logging in on youtube anyway? It makes it easy to track you.

I both use subscriptions and watch what the algo shows me. According to a lot of big YouTubers I watch, their viewership mostly comes from people who find them organically and only a smaller amount of their views come from subscribers but sponsors like to see high subscriber counts as well as high view counts.

It's not about the bell, with it Youtube also introduction the algorythm to the subscription feed and essentially made some videos not show up consistantly anymore if I am not totally wrong (it's been a while and I was a lot younger back then)

Maybe i misunderstood your question but i've also heard many say they weren't getting all the content from the channels they subbed to exactly on the subscriptions feed. Personally i've never noticed this but that's why some channels started recommending to also hit the bell.

I use it rarely. YouTube is good at choosing suggested videos for me that I would watch.

Yeah I use it exclusively with no issues. I do find it weird that no one else seems to use it much and relies on notifications so much.

When the home page defaulted to the recommended view rather than subscriptions, many years ago, I simply saved the URL for the subscription feed as a favorite and that's it. I never had issues, all videos from all my subscriptions show up.

I don't

I use it to catch up on the latest vids from account im following. Occasionally I’ll also browse the algorithm feed as well.

I watch YouTube way too much to ever be satisfied by any form of subscription feed. On places like Twitter all I want is the feed of people I follow, but not so much on video platforms.

Yes. I mean no, ehm, I mean "yes, I use the subscription feed".

Pro tip: subscribe to @DinksterDaily to keep it organized. Thank me later.

I subscribe to a lot of channels, and they usually put out significantly more videos that I don't want to watch than videos that I do. I'll usually subscribe to a channel for a specific video in case they make more of that specific kind of video, but I won't care about their other stuff.

For example, I subscribe to the Game Grumps channel, but I only want to watch them play games that I've also played, or that I at least know enough about to follow along with the gameplay without focusing all of my attention on it. If they're playing a game I've never heard of - which they often do - then I don't care to watch it.

The algorithm does a better job of showing me the videos I actually want to see than the subscription feed does because it takes into account which specific videos I've seen and skipped for each of my subscriptions.

I use it sparingly. All the subscriptions/bells/whatever generate too much spam from the channels.

I guess the answer would be yes for me, because I've never subscribed to any youtube videos. If I wanted to watch a youtube video, I'd search for it and click on it. Most of the time I probably use youtube without being logged in to a google account. Have no interest in "following" any youtubers.