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Nicola Apicella on May 13, 2020

Tom Scott made a video recently where the title contains the number of views that the video has. The title is kept up to date with the number of vi...
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Andrew Bone

As soon as I saw the title I knew it was Tom Scott 😁

Steve Mould did a follow up too

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Ben Halpern

It just clicked to me what this is doing. Really trippy. Coding is awesome. πŸ˜„

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Lasse Schultebraucks

Cool idea :D

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Nicola Apicella

:)

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Hirday Gupta

This is so incredibly cool! I think my favorite part is that on Twitter, the preview updates with the new title too: twitter.com/napicellatwit/status/1...

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Tony Yu

So... It has been more than a couple minutes now... nothing has happened lol!

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Nicola Apicella

I noticed that comments update immediately, reactions instead might take some time. Anecdotally (i.e. looking at the log), in some cases it took up to 15 mins :)

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Tony Yu

Oh, cool. I see the updated title now.

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fri3d

This is great!

I did a post a while back covering how I might have done the Youtube way too
dev.to/deepfrieddev/updating-a-you...

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Petronela Handic

Interesting idea! Congrats!

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Nicola Apicella

thanks XD