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My current one is https://limnology.co/ , organizing the top 70k educational youtubers in 20 languages. Youtube's channel discovery is pretty bad, and I wanted an easy way to find new channels about the topics I'm interested in. Still a work in progress as the problem turned out to be a lot harder than I thought.
askytb commented on Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category limnology.co/... · Posted by u/askytb
Can you also add greek? I'm always on the look for good content for my children but can't find much in my language :(
Unfortunately all the other languages have too few results, I just checked and Greek only has 0.7% as many channels as English in the db, so it'd only be a few pages of content
askytb commented on Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category limnology.co/... · Posted by u/askytb
This is missing something critical: It shows tags, but does not allow to use them like tags. Instead it only allows to use them as categories. One should be able to narrow down results by clicking multiple tags.
I did think about it, but my concern was that because I only take a small subset of top keywords for each channel, it's very easy to create a combination of tags that'll show no results. I'll play around with it and see if it makes sense to implement.
askytb commented on Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category limnology.co/... · Posted by u/askytb
This isn't eligible for Show HN - please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html - so I've taken that out of the title now.
Because it's a "list"? I don't think that's correct, there's ballpark 200k different pages with unique content in that app, that's a lot more than just a list.
askytb commented on Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category limnology.co/... · Posted by u/askytb
I find it hilarious that "Indian English" is a separate category
I had to split it because the sheer size of Indian audiences breaks all the metrics, and yet those videos would not be super relevant in the west as a very large percentage of the Indian educational youtube consists of various kinds of local exam/test preparation channels
askytb commented on Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category limnology.co/... · Posted by u/askytb
Looks cool! curious how you sourced and tagged the channels?
We have a few popular anatomy channels in different languages[0], but I couldn’t find any of our videos when searching for “anatomy” and also results were quite mixed. Some videos were quite unrelated or very loosely related at best.
[0] main one in English https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHn_K1zOBYZqtmIYkXLEIQw
It's in the database: https://limnology.co/en/creators/UCHn_K1zOBYZqtmIYkXLEIQw
And on the second page for the anatomy keyword https://limnology.co/en/languages/en/keywords/anatomy?page=2
I think it got somewhat downranked because of the recent views/subscribers mismatch
askytb commented on Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category limnology.co/... · Posted by u/askytb
This is alright, I like the category breakdown, it makes browsing great, but its still subject to what _youtube_ considers good content. Which just results in the top content being short-form videos which provide quick-facts, not something I can actually learn with. Not necessarily a bad thing for different categories or if that is what you're seeking in the category but a consequential factor for someone seeking something outside the advertiser-friendly, profit maximizing algorithms.
I just love things the variety of things that fall outside the google-ads algos its so easy to silo our "content" from platforms like this. I browse marginalia [0] just to spice it up and see what else there is out there.
Try digging deeper into the "Related Keywords" cloud at the top, the narrower is the keyword you pick, the more long-form & technical and the less pop-channell-y stuff you'll see.