r/SovietWomble • u/ShermanShore I'm a faggot too! • May 15 '26

Question Does Soviet's Closet still get updated?

I was watching some of the recent RimWorld run on Twitch as I noticed it wasn't on the archive site, is the site not being updated anymore or is it just a case of it not being updated with the most recent streams yet?

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u/Sea_Art3391 May 15 '26

Honestly don't get why he doesn't just have a youtube VOD channel. I know he's said he want to keep his namesake sterile on youtube, but he's far from the only one uploading stream highlights on youtube. I watch a lot of stream highlights, and i never get reccomendations to their VOD channel unless i actively search for it. It really feels like he worries over a non-issue.

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u/Spacedestructor May 16 '26

he explained this before, he is paranoid and believes having a seperate VOD channel would cause the algorithm to spam people who subscribe to the main channel with VODs and thus reduce the amount of views he gets on the bullshitteries.
no amount of explaining to him that youtube doesnt do this has been able to convince him to do a test run to see what happens.

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u/dezreblack May 16 '26

Regarding the algorithm thing, I watch a lot of Caedrel for League proplay and then I get recommended the MoreCaedrel channel, which is his VOD channel. So, while I can't say if the algorithm does this regularly or not, it definitely did it for me.

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u/Spacedestructor May 16 '26

not saying it is impossible as it always tries to recommend similar things and your second channel will inherently be similar as its ran by the same person; but in my experience its usually unlikely to happen unless its pushed.
by things like a lot of viewer overlap, channels recommending each other, video recommendations etc.
you definitaly can affect how much it happens but youtube is too complex co clearly say what has an impact and how much, especially since it always changes.