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21. January 2026 at 20:00

YouTube Challenge 26: Week 2

So we completed Week 2, and it went well. There wasn't anything to Complain about really. I read a lot which I am happy about, and I was able to keep up with my Documentation, unlike last Week. But of course it wasn't Perfect, I wasn't able to get into my Projects as much as I wanted too, and I was a lot on Discord over the Week which I didn't track but still noticed. So yeah for Week 3 I am going to try to reduce my Discord Time.

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But let's get into the Data! This Week I'll be presenting my Standard Platform Chart, but also a Source chart. A Short Explanation of the Source Chart, it shows from where I learned of a Video, if that be somebody send me a Link or If I went onto YouTube, and it recommended me the Video. I primarily started keeping track of it because why not, but it evolved into an Interesting Data Set to see where I spent most of my Time. And as we can see from the Data I spent most of it on my RSS feed, which is good. As my RSS feed is supposed to by my Primary source of Media. As it is stuff I am actually Interested in, and I specifically subscribed too. Tho I do need to maybe filter some Channels out of there. Besides that let's take a look to the Other Sources, so the Second highest is Browsing with 4 Videos, now what does Browsing even mean. In context of this Chart Browsing refers to looking through Streaming and Video Sources that aren't YouTube. A great example is the CCC Media Library I looked through for some Nice Talks, or if I browse Nebula or Dropout for other Channels/Videos I haven't subscribed with RSS yet or cannot subscribe too. The other notable Video source is YouTube, because I have normally it blocked. But sadly for brief Period my mpv / yt-dlp stopped working and I was forced to go to the Website where I got caught by some Videos. But at least I didn't fall into the Trap of Endlessly Watching.

So yeah that concludes the Week 2 Report, see you next Week :).

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