Community-committee: Create Custom Url on Youtube

[saulonunesdev]

Hi,

i was updating the meeting issue on mentorship program and i was curious about the youtube channel url,

after a little search, i found out this article:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2657968?hl=en

Custom URL eligibility
To create a custom URL for your channel, your account needs to:

• Have 100 or more subscribers
• Be at least 30 days old
• Have an uploaded photo as a channel icon
• Have uploaded channel art

So, can we update the youtube url channel to a friendly /nodejs ?

[bnb]

Unfortunately, https://youtube.com/nodejs is already taken. If you have another suggestion, I think we'd be all ears. We currently have https://youtube.com/nodejs-foundation but there is now no such thing as the Node.js Foundation so that slug is slightly misleading.

[saulonunesdev]

thks @bnb https://youtube.com/nodejs-foundation is better than https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPYJluYC_sn_Qz_XE-YbTQ

i'm going to use this url now.

Thanks

[bnb]

Going to re-open, since I think it's definitely worth us having a discussion about renaming the channel since the nodejs-foundation no longer exists – totally fine for now, but definitely worth approaching as if we have a fresh slate ❤️

[saulonunesdev]

sure,

i dont know if its okay, but we could reach youtube, because the current user NoDejS has only 3 subscribers and doesnt fits the 100subs rule

[bnb]

I'd personally prefer to avoid that, given that they do actively use it and specifically use the lists features. I have zero subscribers but pay YouTube for my account and use it constantly.

IMO it's in a similar vein to what happened with Kik that triggered left-pad. While they're not in our ecosystem, I'd prefer to avoid using brute force to take something like that away from someone.

[codeekage]

Hey, sorry I’m catching up on all the open issues that doesn’t seem to have an agenda label. 😊 What’s the final update on this? Or is it fine to close?

[bnb]

I would love to see us be able to change the nice slug to something else, but I also don't think getting nodejs (or node) is something that we'll realistically be able to do :(

If we can think of something else that fits and is available, we could do that 👍

[saulonunesdev]

I'd personally prefer to avoid that, given that they do actively use it and specifically use the lists features. I have zero subscribers but pay YouTube for my account and use it constantly.

IMO it's in a similar vein to what happened with Kik that triggered left-pad. While they're not in our ecosystem, I'd prefer to avoid using brute force to take something like that away from someone.

i agree, would be better to find a nicer and friendly solution for this.

perhaps we could ask for suggestions and see which one fits better.

like: node-js or node.js (i dont know if . is able to be used)

[saulonunesdev]

@bnb what do you think about openjsnode

https://www.youtube.com/openjsnode

[bnb]

I would _personally_ prefer not to directly tie Node.js branding to OpenJS branding.

[mhdawson]

How about http://www.youtube.com/nodejs-project

[joesepi]

I asked the person who has /nodejs very nicely if they'd gift it to us -- I'll let you know if they respond.

https://twitter.com/joe_sepi/status/1233242558542831617

[bnb]

nodejs or nodejs-project are both nice 👍

[joesepi]

The person I reached out to is not the person who owns youtube/nodejs :(

And the person who is NoDejS on Youtube favorited videos as recently as March of this year so they are active to some extent. I say with go with choice #2: nodejs-project that @mhdawson suggested.

[saulonunesdev]

Thanks @joesepi i also think nodejs-project is a good friendly name