we’re making updates to better match how people discover trending content today by shifting away from one all-encompassing Trending list towards category-specific charts that we’ll continue to invest in over time.

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    58 minutes ago

    I spend hours on YouTube every single day and I have no clue what a “trending page” is.

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      40 minutes ago

      I worked at YouTube and use it constantly. I knew about it. But I just never used it. Because it was always garbage.

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    60 minutes ago

    Could that be the first actual improvement in years?

    I’m sure they’re gonna replace it with something even more asinine but my god, the trending page was always just a cesspool of the absolute worst content on YouTube (with a few exceptions every now and then).

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      7 hours ago

      Shorts (as a format) aren’t the problem, it’s what you watch. If you train the algorithm to serve you garbage, then of course it’s gonna serve you garbage ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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      7 hours ago

      I’ve installed user scripts to replace the player with the normal one and used unlock to hide the feed in my subscriptions page. Did the same with revanced on my phone.

      They’re just designed to be addictive, I wasn’t getting anything out of them.

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    7 hours ago

    Does this mean I will have to scroll even more if I want to go to a specific channel I am subscribed to? All i want on the left is History and the list of channels I am subscribed to.