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June 1, 2015 02:33:26
Lightbow Sorry to comment on packaging rather than content, but I was surprised to see one of the longest, raciest YouTube advertisements I've ever seen before what's supposed to be a kid-friendly educational video. I'm not offended or anything, but if I were to have the same experience in front of a classroom of kids, I'd be totally fired. I thought the point of Patreon subscriptions was to cut the need for stuff like this. How much money would you need to raise per video (either on Patreon, or via corporate sponsorship) to cut out ads entirely?
June 2, 2015 15:04:26 · Reply
Henry Reich This is a good question, thanks for asking and I'm sorry you had to sit through an inappropriate ad. At this point I've been turning off overlay ads on new videos as well as turning off unskippable pre-roll ads (like the one you watched) for the first 24 hours or so of new videos, so if you watch right away you don't have to see ads (or at least you can skip them). I don't have a set number goal for turning off all ads for the first week a video is live, and one potential issue is that a lot of patrons put a cap on their monthly contributions, so the full amount listed on the patron page (minus transaction costs and patreon.com's cut) is only for one video/month, any additional videos receive a significantly lower level of pledges. Henry
June 16, 2015 15:02:14 · Reply
Sergio I Montserrat S I second Lightbow's question.
June 14, 2015 22:56:37 · Reply
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May 1, 2015 20:19:18
Chase Turner Enjoyed the surprise reference to the mechanical adding system -- thanks for including that!
May 2, 2015 17:00:14 · Reply
April 22, 2015 17:02:34
Cole Palmer All of your videos are always so good. This one is no exception!
April 22, 2015 18:53:52 · Reply
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March 26, 2015 18:47:15
Timur Sultanov Done already... Can you post in Activity links to videos when they are released on vessel? Will be a little bit easier to track them that way...
March 27, 2015 02:27:50 · Reply
March 24, 2015 08:19:13
Ho Yin Cheng Ok, so I had already signed up for Vessel yesterday (same year offer, but from LinusTechTips) and tried it out. Before I list my thoughts on the platform, I have a question: Does early access on Vessel mean that videos come out slower on YouTube? If so, then why would I bother continuing to support you via Patreon (formerly, Subbable - yes I've been supporting since day 1)? The only reason I'd have left for supporting you is for the sciences, and while I'd love to do that, I'd probably much rather put those types of donations towards the education charities that I try to support. Now for my thoughts on Vessel as a streaming platform (copy pasted from my comment to Linus): 1. Signup forces you to subscribe to categories and follow people to continue? I literally don't subscribed to anything outside of two types of videos so I had to just pick one randomly to continue. (ended up just removing everything after signup) 2. I don't have too many Firefox plugins installed, but usually all websites work. But Vessel is completely broken and tells me to upgrade my browser. Uhhh... sure. I'm actually on the latest version of Firefox, so what gives? 3. The website homepage is laggy as hell because they animate parts of the videos in some of the previews. Why do this? The previews are also so large that I can 100% see this being a pain in the ass to use to see what new content came out once you're subbed to more than a few people. 4. The video player is not responsive. It's hard to get the controls to appear without pausing and resuming (in fact, it seems impossible - try doing it in fullscreen). 5. Control menu has so many design quirks (looks and feels like default Bootstrap so badly that I wonder how many real UI designers they have on their team) that it simply feels clunky to use. They made so many UX mistakes that the website actually feels amateurish. Overall, I'm glad to see all YouTube creators trying to break their dependence on YouTube. However, I think your usage of Vessel is not representative of common users. Especially those of us who are such heavy users of streaming services that we actually pay for them (as I do via Patreon). For us, Vessel is a pretty poor platform. Thank you for reading this, and I hope you can pass along these comments, and similar ones, to the other YouTube creators who are also pushing to Vessel.
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March 22, 2015 13:55:36
Henry Reich It's on the list... but the list is long
March 22, 2015 16:58:04 · Reply
Timur Sultanov I'm patient, so no worries =)
March 22, 2015 22:17:45 · Reply
Henrik Mannila Ooh, I also want that
March 24, 2015 11:42:54 · Reply
March 21, 2015 21:58:41
Henry Reich Trying out photoshop, not sure how I like it. I don't screen capture - I wrote a script to export the photoshop history.
March 23, 2015 15:24:33 · Reply
Henry Reich Ps you missed the point of this post which was that you can ask questions directly in the activity feed, not just as comments to my posts! :)
March 23, 2015 15:36:57 · Reply
Hugh O'Brien Why is the moon always aligned with earth? Was it always this way or would it seem to spin?
March 23, 2015 13:05:19 · Reply
Henry Reich I have just the video for you... Ever hear of a little channel called MinuteEarth? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jUpX7J7ySo
March 23, 2015 15:23:20 · Reply
Henry Reich Ps you missed the point of this post which was that you can ask questions directly in the activity feed, not just as comments to my posts! :)
March 23, 2015 15:36:47 · Reply
Hugh O'Brien Now that's a quick turnaround. Thank you.
March 23, 2015 17:29:05 · Reply
Michel Payette Hello Henry, The sun is about the same size as the moon when we look at it from here, if the sun was hollow and a photon would emit from one side, and travel in strait line through the center...(and if we could see it) then it would require something like 4 seconds to reach the other side ! This make it easy to follow with the naked eye...seems almost slow !
March 23, 2015 15:16:22 · Reply
Henry Reich Interesting way of visualizing light speed - Also, the sun is HUGE!
March 23, 2015 15:26:43 · Reply
Henry Reich Ps you missed the point of this post which was that you can ask questions directly in the activity feed, not just as comments to my posts! :)
March 23, 2015 15:36:28 · Reply
March 20, 2015 19:35:47
Chase Turner My having stared at computer screens for 30+ years, I took the dark lines for granted -- thank you for explaining the "why" of those dark artifacts! Somewhat related (from a "what is the math that drives what we see") is a talk by Steven Wittens -- start 4 minutes into the talk and listen for two minutes to see if the whole of the talk is of interest. See http://acko.net/tv/webglmath
March 23, 2015 13:46:41 · Reply
Sam Rossetti Photoshop do so by default only in RGB; if you work in LAB or CMYK it seems it handles blurring correctly.
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Mitch Etzkin Great Video! Very interesting :-D Also, are you guys playing Ultimate at the 0:33 second mark?!
July 6, 2015 14:13:15 · Reply
Sergio I Montserrat S Thank you! This is the kind of science videos that make me like your channel and supporting your efforts. Love to see the process of analysis behind phenomenons of life.
July 9, 2015 02:27:01 · Reply