I consistently hear people on YouTube complain that the subscribe button doesn’t do anything for viewers, now that channel notifications are controlled by the bell. But it does do something: it puts the videos from that channel in your subscription feed, which is readily accessible on all versions of YouTube. So why do people act like it doesn’t exist? I think it’s super convenient, especially if you’re subscribed to a ton of channels and don’t want your notifications feed flooded with new videos.
I don’t rely on it at all because it likes to omit things I assume it thinks I won’t like. Plenty of times I’ll see a new video from a subscribed creator on the home tab to head over to subscriptions where I can’t find it but see previous ones.
If it worked that would be great, instead I use third party apps to manage it and would just stop using YouTube if those tools were unavailable.
Newpipe or some of the other clients like it fetch youtube for channel data directly and aggrogate into a feed on your computer, verry clean way of doing it. Channel uploads by date is the last thing not AI controlled
Yeah, I always use the sub feed but it’s a mess. It’s about as good as the Facebook feed for finding new videos from channels I’ve subscribed to.
Use newpipe or simmlar, or a list of channel links to check back on every so often