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The Legacy Of MadV, The YouTuber Time Forgot

MadV was an early YouTuber whose videos included music, illusions and collaboration videos. Notably, he organized the "One World" collab which was at one point the most responded video on YouTube.

By themadprogramer April 5, 2021HistoryNo Comments

News

YouTube Community Contributions Archive Now Available: A Look at the Stats

The YouTube Community Contributions Archive is now available on the Internet Archive! You can download the entire collection, or simply search for and download files for a particular video. The…

By tech234a March 5, 2021NewsNo Comments

News

We Just Rescued Thousands of Unpublished YouTube Captions

YouTube recently removed their community contributions feature, so we collected as many unpublished caption drafts as we possibly could...

By themadprogramer October 30, 2020NewsNo Comments

News

The RIAA issues youtube-dl a DMCA takedown

The RIAA has issued a DMCA takedown for youtube-dl, an open-source utility for downloading videos from websites.

By themadprogramer October 23, 2020NewsNo Comments

News

YouTube is hiding Attributions to Fan-Captioners and Translators who wanted to be credited

YouTube no longer lists captioners and translators in the video description, hiding the names of these diligent authors who had asked to be credited...

By themadprogramer October 15, 2020NewsNo Comments

Community Translations After September 28

History

[Obsoleted] YouTube removed community translations, but there is a workaround!

Even with YouTube having disabled community contributions, there is a workaround you can use to continue to add new translations on videos!

By themadprogramer October 12, 2020History2 Comments

New Project

Help Archive YouTube’s Community Contributions!

YouTube is removing their community contributions feature on September 28. In case you haven't already heard, that's the feature which allows viewers to add captions/subtitles, translated titles and video descriptions…

By themadprogramer September 25, 2020New ProjectNo Comments

History News

The Untold Story of why YouTube is removing Community Contributions; YouTube CC History pt. 4

In the later half of the 2010’s YouTube began putting a greater emphasis on international accessibility over accessibility for the deaf. This change in policy, alienated the Deaf Community who began to criticize the increasing inadequacy of closed captions on the website. The ensuing events would bring about the rise and fall of the feature known as community contributions.

By themadprogramer September 18, 2020History, News1 Comment

History

Scaling the Waterfall, Captions for All; YouTube CC History pt.3

In the early half of the 2010's YouTube would work to increase the percentage of captioned videos on the platform, through various means. This was especially motivated by a rivalry with an up-and-coming subtitling platform, Amara.

By themadprogramer September 12, 2020HistoryNo Comments

History

Pioneering Online Accessibility; YouTube CC History pt.2

In August 2008, Google finally initiated the migration of the closed captions infrastructure from Google Video to YouTube. The following months are nothing short of crazy! Editor improvements, caption translation, automatic captioning and more... A lot of heart and soul was poured into making video more accessible than ever!

By themadprogramer September 4, 2020HistoryNo Comments