Removing videos that are dead links

What should we do with videos that have been removed from Youtube? I've reported some twice a long time ago but they haven't been removed. Does this require manual inspection or could there just be a menu choice for it along with the 'Spam,' 'Pornographic,' 'Irrelevant,' etc. To prevent users abusing such a system, the links could remain but be labeled somehow as having been removed from Youtube.

I've noticed my share of dead links. I think they should just be removed, so I report them. That's probably the best and simplest way to go about it until we can maybe get an update feed that tells Listal when the video is no longer available and automatically deletes it. But then that might cause confusion with people wondering where their videos have gone off to...

But then that might cause confusion with people wondering where their videos have gone off to...

It would be good if they got an email update like "Your video has is no longer available on Youtube." Oftentimes there's another video available on Youtube or another site that could be used as a replacement, but they wouldn't know to look for it unless they happened to play it and saw the 'video has been removed' message.

I agree - e-mail notifications would solve that problem. Wish I'd thought of that. =P

And this too: a 'Notify me if this video becomes unavailable' checkbox next to where you add a video that could be set to checked or unchecked by default. For videos you add that you based a decision *not* to see a movie on, you might not want to be bothered finding replacements if they go down. Added as a suggestion: www.listal.com/suggestion/375

I plan to automatically delete dead videos and notify the user, it's been on my todo list for a while

I plan to automatically delete dead videos and notify the user, it's been on my todo list for a while

Do you plan on automatic deletion of dead video links possible for other sites besides Youtube as well? If links to trailers from sites other than Youtube were allowed, then in the future, if this did become possible, the video links would all be in one place for an automated system like that, rather than scattered about the Description and reviews. It would also prevent duplicate links being posted (A video is dead, you look for a live one and find its the same dead link.)

Sometimes a subtitled version of a trailer will be released after the original one on some site other than Youtube, but there's nowhere to put it but in a review or the Description, where it will likely never be seen if there's already an un-subtitled one in the Trailers section, which users will naturally look to first.

www.listal.com/suggestion/80
www.listal.com/suggestion/402

I originally added support for a number of sites other than youtube but found that 99% of the time people just added videos from youtube anyway. The other problem is most other video sites don't have an api which makes it hard to fetch information (most of the time it was impossible to fetch a thumbnail image). Fetching of data and detection of deleted videos has be custom built for each site and every time they change the site it could break. I noticed vimeo does have a api so I will probably add that one.

I can see an automated system like this would easily be too much work to be practical. Maybe there could be a checkbox added to reviews like 'Contains trailer' and there could be a link in the Trailers section like 'X reviews contain trailers.'

Some have an embed code, which can be used in reviews, but they make my profile look like this:



I don't mind the embedded videos being visible, so I moved the Recent Reviews to the right column, but that removes the gap between the columns for some reason: