Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters
by nevernothing on 4/6/2026, 12:18:26 AM
https://playlists.at/youtube/search/
Comments
by: VenezuelaFree
Search is the reason I stopped watching youtube, I used to view and discover so many nice stuff in there, tutorials, new hobbies, new music, new creators with different interests, etc but now it's pretty much impossible to find, you are forced to watch the 3 top videos, some 3 ads and then it forces you to watch some other random unrelated crap, it's so annoying and frustrating<p>It got so bad that even searching the full tittle of the video doesnt show you that video haha
4/6/2026, 1:45:13 AM
by: throw7
Just asking: Is there an open source project that I can self-host that can organize my current subscriptions into separate groups/categories and make things easy to view/hide/digest?<p>Many moons ago, I could hover and hide a video I didn't want to see in my feed with a single click. Best UX user feature evar... it was gone in a week or two I feel.<p>I'm kinda ashamed to say I have multiple youtube accounts to keep my sanity, but yeah.
4/6/2026, 2:03:40 AM
by: wincy
For April Fools Sega released an (actual, real) “Sanic the Hedgeheg” t-shirt and I wanted to see if there was anything about it on YouTube. YouTube assumed I meant “sonic” and it was impossible to correct it and say “no I’m actually searching for this dumb meme”. It just assumes everyone who uses YouTube is really dumb I guess. (I bought the shirt by the way and am excited to get it lol)
4/6/2026, 1:33:48 AM
by: loveparade
The whole Youtube experience has gotten so bad over the years. I love the youtube content, but I wish I didn't have to deal with the UI/UX and recommendations that the YT app forces on me.<p>Annoying Shorts. I'm trying to keep my watch history clean to "steer" recommendations, but YT keeps adding things to it that I didn't actually watch just because I happened to hover my mouse over a video, etc.
4/6/2026, 1:53:20 AM
by: ddtaylor
If anyone has a good solution to YouTube destroying all value of the Subscriptions page I am open ears. Until recently my consumption of YT was basically to go to my subscriptions page and see what new content had been released since I last watched YT.
4/6/2026, 1:49:21 AM
by: 6thbit
I still can’t believe they don’t let you search videos within a channel for example.<p>Or filter out music playlist from video ones.<p>Or search within transcripts.<p>It’s peak irony a company owned by the search overlord.
4/6/2026, 1:59:44 AM
by: atum47
I'm not popular enough to write a post about everything that is wrong with YouTube, from recommending the same few videos over and over again in different "categories" to ALL the results of a search being cringe shorts no one wants to see.
4/6/2026, 1:16:41 AM
by: dbbk
It works perfectly fine.
4/6/2026, 2:01:50 AM
by: SilverElfin
Really wish there was an alternative. Especially to the manipulation of it all by YouTube (demonetization and other tactics).
4/6/2026, 2:03:55 AM
by: dev1ycan
This is just adding the hidden filters such as<p>before:[date]: Finds videos uploaded before a specific date.<p>Example: space exploration before:2020-01-01<p>after:[date]: Finds videos uploaded after a specific date.<p>Example: tech news after:2024-01-01<p>To an UI, right?
4/6/2026, 12:56:28 AM