I remember waaaaaay back in 2009-ish hunting for some new electronic music.
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First video I went on had about 1000 views. Every "related" video had around the same (sometimes less).
I spent 4 hours finding a bunch of new and relatively unknown artists because, rather than dragging me back to the 100k aggregate, I was allowed to explore the graph of "other people went on to watch this".
These days I'm lucky to see any sidebar suggestions that have fewer than 100k views.
\end{old_man_better_in_my_day}
I think the problem is the "one-size-fits-all" approach can't possibly capture how I would find it useful (music discovery via graph/tree traversal) vs. someone else (e.g. regular sky sports football highlights).
I remember waaaaaay back in 2009-ish hunting for some new electronic music.
\begin{old_man_better_in_my_day}
First video I went on had about 1000 views. Every "related" video had around the same (sometimes less).
I spent 4 hours finding a bunch of new and relatively unknown artists because, rather than dragging me back to the 100k aggregate, I was allowed to explore the graph of "other people went on to watch this".
These days I'm lucky to see any sidebar suggestions that have fewer than 100k views.
\end{old_man_better_in_my_day}
I think the problem is the "one-size-fits-all" approach can't possibly capture how I would find it useful (music discovery via graph/tree traversal) vs. someone else (e.g. regular sky sports football highlights).