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• Optimization (Autoplay etc.)
• Speed-watching exceptions: Education (YouTube-Category) & Music (Works now. By category, whitelist, blacklist, duration & youtube music detection - using data is easy)
• Several fixes

🥰 Active longterm contributors: @dodieboy @raszpl 🥰 🥰 5 new contributors @jarrodsmeyers @Huhni @vinay-nb @Fulgar @masterghost2002                              🥰 @D-Rekk made the youtube home page menu more tidy / foldable      ---➤

• Youtube changes made us update theater-mode twice.
  • Can't keep up with that alone always, but we are big enough, actually.
    • seamless automated updates / crowdsourcing ? ( https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/1740#issuecomment-1692210502 )
    • Check the previous release-notes:
      • Incorporation

edit: Roll-out is done, 1x bug fixed.

Our first release mostly done by recent community members only, already rolled-out to most users. A new type of heart-warming 🥺

• Thanks to @D-Rekk(, @Jscongdon, ..), who kept bug-fixing & responding on Discord, after learning how understaffed the project is.
  • And D-Rekk made a great "comments on the side" #1697. This is brave (maybe our most laborious feature. Optimized on multiple systems) - Lets try it!
    • +We should split it into its components! Each makes a stand-alone feature)
• Thanks so much again to @raszpl, who is now a top3 contributor, trying to make more sense of the whole code & our library https://github.com/code-charity/SATUS & our open issues & future plans.
• Thanks to @HanzCEO, who enhanced / updated adskipping / adblocking & carried out the urgent PR after YouTube updated the player!
• Translators haven't been active & we need to update language files. Use locale.py (Could be enhanced: #678 + #1543 & Could have a spreadsheet with 100+ cols to help any extension using =GOOGLETRANSLATE() )
  • Thanks to @AC-Lover for adding Persian / Iranian & @PeterDaveHello for the update

Incorporation?

• We should have/hire a daily community moderator & daily developers. Including the newer projects & "History Manager".
• We should register a (simple) Non-Profit / Charity (for trust & transparency; donation-receipts; free advertisment from Google (, Facebook and other maybe) & potentially/increasingly public funding.)
  • What's the right way? (Irish Limited by Guarantee? British too? What are the alternatives?) ( @"Legal-Department" )

Greetings! to the legendary @code-charity/contributors, @Dodieboy, Victor, @DavidOfferman, @YePpHa

https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/pulls?q=is%3Apr+sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Amerged+author%3Araszpl Thanks to @raszpl :

• Several bugs are gone
• Our h.264 feature works again! & #1211 got ahead & discussed.
• Some GUI is tidier & Modals are fixed & Conditional switches are easier to maintain.

AND he read a lot of critical/architectural code & our satus.js - 🤩 Looking forward 🤩🤩

• Transcript, with focus-zoom and no line-spacing.

• Comments on the right & sidebar on the left can be combined now (=player in the middle)

• Tidy embedded Youtube #867

• Importing tags (Category, familyFriendly, datePubished, .. - So we could programm anything with that. For example "play unlisted videos in theater mode")

• Improved Header on hover

Fixes:

• hiding Youtube Button 'Clip', 'Thanks', ...
• Fixed Custom Player Size
• Hiding Player controls when paused

Please check the drama since https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/releases/tag/v4.3

• Auto PiP feature @MohamedLebda
• Always show Chapters @Chirag127 (Or transcript. polished)
  • And with toggle shortcuts. PiP does also toggle now.
  • hide Subscribe button
• few extra options, updates, a bit more tidy
• improved music detection & covering keywords in most popular languages.
  • Let's collect good ideas... ( https://github.com/code-for-charity/ImprovedTube-for-YouTube/issues/1636)
• ... about everything else too : #1451 | #1445 | #1463 | #1211

3. Urgent: Our menu's GUI bugs Satus.js lib, after we lost our maintainer https://github.com/code-for-charity/ImprovedTube-for-YouTube/releases/tag/v4.3
   • come Discord https://discord.gg/aHpjrhf and/or ask to be invited to github.com/code-for-charity

• fixed the bad new bug affecting speed; volume; quality; navigation from other youtube pages. And another with dark theme & hover header

• Always showing transcript or always showing comments
  • Each combinable with 'Sidebar to the left!'
• Layout: 'no (right) page margin' (again combinable with 'Sidebar to the left!', probably wont fit with the other two)
• A newly combined "big player" option "max. width within window"
• excluding music from speed-watching by youtube category & by keywords like "official video" vs "interview"
• adjusting Youtube's buttons below the player in group (or one by on)
• search shortcut also makes the header visible

More importantly, read "v4.3" below

• Some new features / options. And ~200 maintenance edits 😪 - If any annoying bug still happens, please report soon, and tell us, if any specifically started in the end of NOV? Or maybe in AUG?)

• Lost our maintainer-hero Victor </3

  • Tried to finish Victor's re-write "4.0", but not quite yet... ( prepared to run on more websites & structured in single files)
  • Special thanks to Dodieboy (50 PR's!!!),
    JuniorGenius, HBoyd2003, Anoaxx, allanlaal, raszpl, urfausto, maniues, mrangjunboon2017s, ... , ...
    • Please help us comparing any missing Code (& Menu Items) from 3.965.zip (october7) (& we can just fix these GUI bugs: Satus )
    • ( To make it worst, Browser extension developers faced extra changes/work/limitations through "Manifest v3" Luckily that change is on hold now officially afterall. So our plans for stronger features remain. )

• Be the first to try our History-Manager (New Tab page)
  • (Useful already, while just a basic sub-set of everything it could do soon...)
  • (- We gave this more effort than ImprovedTube at times even it has no users yet. (Didnt published it to stores))

BTW, a new volunteer uploaded to the Apple Appstore finally:

Changelog:

• Updated Satus library
• Exported file extension has been changed from json to txt
• Removed code that could potentially cause random page reloads
• Redeveloped buttons below the player are back (enabled by default; can be disabled in the player category)
• Added loop button to buttons below the player
• Support for updated links has been added to the default channel tab feature
• Added custom player size feature
• Fixed button position for improvedtube icon on youtube -> below player
• Fixed the improvedtube icon on youtube -> youtube header feature
• Fixed player size reset styles
• Fixed issue with font size in the subtitles feature
• Feature default content country cloned into category general
• Feature youtube language cloned into category general
• Other minor fixes and improvements

Changelog:

• Updated Satus library
• Added play all button (https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension/commit/f4bfb811f36e9e3b3795c4f4214712b6209526f3)
• Reworked feature description (expanded)
• Optimized mutation observer
• Schwi: updated Simplified Chinese localization (https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension/commit/d7f07f5ae24d99d2797a25a7f13836ce216dafff)
• David BrazSan: updated Brazilian Portuguese localization (https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension/commit/c8cb51d7f1df5a6f67a77464962b2621a9a9dcf3)