My green direct line to YouTube / Google. December 14, 2010 12:25 AM Subscribe
My recent AskMe question on YouTube / Google Chrome not playing nice got me talking directly with a "YouTube engineer here who works on, among other things, latency/developing world connections and HTML5."
Not only did his answer solve my problem, he's adding a feature to his Wednesday work queue based on my question. I thought this was awesome and just wanted to share the awesome. Happy belated, AskMe!
Not only did his answer solve my problem, he's adding a feature to his Wednesday work queue based on my question. I thought this was awesome and just wanted to share the awesome. Happy belated, AskMe!
These guys are cool. I was getting slightly irritated by a trace that showed just up after a push, all it took to get it fixed was mentioning it to a YT engineer.
People watching youtube videos with a debug version of the flash player while keeping an eye on a tail of the error logs must be an insignificant fraction of the user base, but it got fixed.
posted by Dr. Curare at 1:15 AM on December 14, 2010
People watching youtube videos with a debug version of the flash player while keeping an eye on a tail of the error logs must be an insignificant fraction of the user base, but it got fixed.
posted by Dr. Curare at 1:15 AM on December 14, 2010
Yeah, wildcrdj is great! He was very helpful when I had YouTube issues.
posted by Kattullus at 4:12 AM on December 14, 2010
posted by Kattullus at 4:12 AM on December 14, 2010
That's neat! My gmail question a while ago netted me an email from a gmail/google person who told me that the behavior I was seeing was, in fact, a bug and that they'd be rolling out a fix in January. Whee.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:28 AM on December 14, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:28 AM on December 14, 2010 [1 favorite]
*sigh* When I show up in a thread and say
[Internet doctor here, trust me completely]
ya, u shuld eat that
posted by cmonkey at 2:33 AM on May 5
I get no thanks at all ;-(
posted by cmonkey at 7:29 AM on December 14, 2010
[Internet doctor here, trust me completely]
ya, u shuld eat that
posted by cmonkey at 2:33 AM on May 5
I get no thanks at all ;-(
posted by cmonkey at 7:29 AM on December 14, 2010
That's because they died.
posted by Roger Dodger at 9:50 AM on December 14, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by Roger Dodger at 9:50 AM on December 14, 2010 [3 favorites]
My gmail question a while ago netted me an email from a gmail/google person who told me that the behavior I was seeing was, in fact, a bug and that they'd be rolling out a fix in January.
That's nothing. They sent a whole team to my house to move the lake.
posted by Devils Rancher at 3:15 PM on December 14, 2010 [2 favorites]
That's nothing. They sent a whole team to my house to move the lake.
posted by Devils Rancher at 3:15 PM on December 14, 2010 [2 favorites]
Aww, thanks guys. Now if I only spent as much time using my own site as I spend on MetaFilter...
posted by wildcrdj at 3:43 PM on December 14, 2010
posted by wildcrdj at 3:43 PM on December 14, 2010
If I knew that we had a direct line to youtube engineers here . . . oh the things I would complain about! (Well, mostly that the preload bar lies to me. All reddish and yet still the spinny before I get to the end of the reddish bar!)
posted by that girl at 4:14 PM on December 14, 2010
posted by that girl at 4:14 PM on December 14, 2010
The YouTube team is awesome.
This is how the player eventually got a stop download/buffering feature. I noticed that it was implemented less than a week after the comment.
posted by SpacemanStix at 4:47 PM on December 14, 2010
This is how the player eventually got a stop download/buffering feature. I noticed that it was implemented less than a week after the comment.
posted by SpacemanStix at 4:47 PM on December 14, 2010
Although our finest moment of web-inspired engineering was this. (Not done by me, but it was an awesome little hack, we did eventually remove it though)
posted by wildcrdj at 6:26 PM on December 14, 2010
posted by wildcrdj at 6:26 PM on December 14, 2010
I still want permalinks.
youtube.com/watch/sleslie/my_funny_video?feature=related
instead of
youtube.com/watch?p=DE4DMAU5&feature=related
technical details here.
posted by sleslie at 7:56 PM on December 14, 2010
youtube.com/watch/sleslie/my_funny_video?feature=related
instead of
youtube.com/watch?p=DE4DMAU5&feature=related
technical details here.
posted by sleslie at 7:56 PM on December 14, 2010
CAN YOU FIX THE BUG WHERE IDIOTS SAY IDIOT THINGS IN THE COMMENTS OK THANKS
posted by EndsOfInvention at 1:34 AM on December 15, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by EndsOfInvention at 1:34 AM on December 15, 2010 [1 favorite]
So by permalink you mean more like an alias? Cause links are permanent in the sense that video ids never change. So by the wiki definition I'd say they're permalinks, although it claims they are "often human readable", which seems to be the part you're looking for.
CAN YOU FIX THE BUG WHERE IDIOTS SAY IDIOT THINGS IN THE COMMENTS OK THANKS
That one has been sitting in buganizer for a while. No one seems to want to take ownership of it...
posted by wildcrdj at 8:03 PM on December 15, 2010 [1 favorite]
CAN YOU FIX THE BUG WHERE IDIOTS SAY IDIOT THINGS IN THE COMMENTS OK THANKS
That one has been sitting in buganizer for a while. No one seems to want to take ownership of it...
posted by wildcrdj at 8:03 PM on December 15, 2010 [1 favorite]
I could do it, but it would cost more than Google probably wants to spend on moderators.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:10 PM on December 15, 2010
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:10 PM on December 15, 2010
Yes, a human readable alias would be a more specific term. If the cowboys at facebook can make it scale past "your grandma's open source CMS" levels, I'm sure google can do the same.
posted by sleslie at 9:24 AM on December 16, 2010
posted by sleslie at 9:24 AM on December 16, 2010
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posted by EndsOfInvention at 12:37 AM on December 14, 2010