u/IAmAlwaysWrongDude

Youtube has made the following announcement, I will just paste the relevant part:

>Hi,

>Last year, we updated how we count views for Shorts to align with industry standards. Starting August 24, 2026, we’re aligning all other video formats to this same methodology, including long-form videos and live streams. From that date and onwards, views will count from the moment a video starts to play, with no minimum watch time requirement.

>Data API (Developer documentation)

>On August 24, the viewCount field in the YouTube Data API will be updated to reflect this change across all content types. Please note that after this date, the view count provided by the Data API will be calculated using the new view counting logic. The view count calculated by the previous counting logic will no longer be accessible via the YouTube Public Data API, but this metric will be available as the “Engaged Views” metric through the YouTube Analytics and Reporting APIs.

If Youtube views were already meaningless and bloated, now you can just have a blast easily inflating views. But I am sure people will still list MVs and artists by most "views" like it means something.

And to think that site (Soridata) which told on ad-views on kpop were brigaded down .... the irony is everywhere.

KPopping used to be mildly informative with their content despite other sites having more actual information, like Kprofiles, kpop.fandom or Soridata. It always seemed Kpopping is more a community than an actual profile/information page.

However they recently changed their whole front end to require login to actually read profiles or see full-sized pictures, and they are asking a monthly donation of $1.000,00 which is ridiculous, specially with the ads on their page and the so called "Plus" subscription (you pay a monthly amound for some community benefits).

All I can think is that they are harvesting mails from people who are forced to create an account and scamming people with that ridiculous donation. What is going on with the fandom these days? Do people fall for that?

I own MSFS2020 but I am tired of bugs on the XBox servers preventing me from loading the game. I don't want to download a full version, just whatever files I need to boot the thing without Xbox connection/app.

Recently XBox servers where down for almost a day and nobody could run the game, even though 2020 is basically an offline game if you want