EPTWhen I find a Youtube video I like, I often go to the uploader's Channel page to see if there's anything else I might like. Problem. I have to go through their Home page channel every time. I never care about what's on their home page, I only care about videos they've uploaded. So to skip the Home Page that I don't care about, I installed this script:
https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/176270
It added a /video to links on Youtube that had a Channel on them so I could just directly go to the Channel's Uploads page whenever I click on a Channel link.
However, I ran into another annoyance this week. Youtube changed something about their site again. And once again, it adds another annoyance to the issue. See for yourself what happens now when you go to the link with /videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalBiscuit/videos
You now have to go through another annoying page. Now Youtube split it into "Recent Uploads" and "Liked Videos". If the user has any Liked Videos, that is. Some users have never ever Liked a video, so the split does not exist on those channels, like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/user/day9tv/videos
However, for the ones that do, like TB's, you have to click on "All Videos" and go to "Uploads". This page does not need to exist. When I click on someone's Video page, I only want to see THEIR videos. Don't distract me with having to click more times just to get to a channel's video page. I really don't care about what videos they Liked, and if I did, I would just look for it elsewhere on the page.
Anyways, it annoyed me, so I looked for a Userscript to fix it. Surely I wasn't the only person hyper-sensitive to annoying changes. But sadly, even if I wasn't the only such person on the internet it didn't matter, because apparently, Userscripts.org has gone to crap. The admins seem to have all but abandoned the site, so the pages are now filled with Adbots posting Spam and Scam scripts. The forums are also filled with advertisements. So even if there was a Userscript that addressed the issue, it was impossible to find without having to wade through 10s of pages of Spam and Scams.
So I decided to try and modify the script myself. And surprisingly, with zero experience writing scripts, I imagined to get it to work.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/400122
Wasn't hard. Essentially just added some more characters at the end so that it now redirected to just the actual Uploads page. But I'm going to be honest, I am glad I did it. Hopefully, it can help someone out there who is also annoyed by dumb changes to Youtube like I am. When using it, give a few seconds for the script to run before clicking on the Channel link. You should see the link change to add /videos?flow=grid&view=0 to the end of the channel name after a few seconds.
I guess this can be another addition to my "Tips to improve your browsing experience" series.
Whitelisting by Channel on Youtube - GM/TM Script: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=435906
How to get Twitch to play on SmartTVs via Serviio: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=437509
Have Youtube go to your Subscription Uploads by Default: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=397387
Stopping Blip.tv from auto-starting the next vid: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=394291
