- A channel someone follows: the videos its exploration brings in (the list's
dialog, the channel page's explore) come in as the catalog's own, not
flagged via_explore, which subscribing would never clear and which kept
their watched marks waiting for good.
- The explore cleanup keeps the row of a channel a Takeout history shows
watched (it still reclaims the videos), so a looked-at channel no longer
drops off the list.
- The Shorts job takes up only users whose list still has lengths to ask or
channels to name, by each user's own follows, blocks and dismissals; a
naming that failed is tried again, and the list says it is not complete.
- The length lookups have a daily share of their own: a large history no
longer leaves the export's Watch later file waiting a day.
- Only a channel of the user's own history can be put out of the list.
- The dialog's videos have a query root of their own: the list's
invalidations no longer re-ask (and re-explore) under an open dialog.
The import asks YouTube how long the watched videos of the candidate
channels are (five or more watched, none the user follows, blocked, put
out or owns), keeps the length on the Takeout row and names the channels
that make the list: five videos of five minutes or more. The shorts job
asks what an import could not. A channel's counted videos come in as an
exploration's when its list is opened, ready to play; a channel can be put
out of the list and back.
peter