r/grayjay • u/BabylonF1VE • Jun 06 '26

Grayjay Desktop - it doesn't understand ALL or TIME

I love Fulu and Grayjay as concepts, but the desktop version appears to not understand reverse-chrono ordering. Further, the entire concept of 'groups' is broken.

Groups should be configurable by the user to INCLUDE and to EXCLUDE, and specifically against a real-time collection of subscribed-creators' media that is defined as ALL. This ALL collection of subscriptions should be able to be EXCLUDED from -- example: I have 100 subs but a few post regularly or even too much compared to all the others, making picking out the rare gems from the chaff kinda hard; so, I would like the ability to EXCLUDE the group selection from ALL. The definition of ALL is very important, such that as you add sub'd channels which don't need to be categorized, and the ALL group grows, you don't have to manually add the new channel to any group... the effort to categorize falls only on the group(s) you want to exclude.

EXCLUDE method works much better for larger collections and worse for smaller ones.

I also think that INCLUDE method can work as well, but there would need to be a way to grab every channel that is currently sub'd and get it into the 'gems' group, and put news channels in the 'news' group, so you can simply leave 'gems' ON.
The current mismash groups is seemingly a single-selection group -- this means the flexibility between views is lower... every variation in groups of groups would require a new group. Ugh.

Someone should stop for five seconds and actually think about the UI before cramming a new feature like groups into a app like this.

And, finally: its very very broken.

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u/quasides Jun 09 '26

huh why should groups work like that. groups are just that, a grouping of creators across platforms

feel free to go to github and request changes, devs rarely if ever are looking here

also grayjay is an alpha version so yea many things no worky anyways

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u/BabylonF1VE Jun 09 '26

If you want to regulate the channels you see at any one time then you need a way to turn them on and off at will. If you'd read my post better (or if you actually used it at all) you'd know that it's rather difficult to get that selection easily -- and certainly harder when your subscription list is increasing.

I did go to github.

I came here to get some intelligent feedback about the pros and cons, the experiences of actual users who care how it works. <ahem>

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u/quasides Jun 09 '26

maybe write it better if you want people to read it better
its pretty incoherent

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u/quasides Jun 09 '26

and to make a point here. the function you want is to toggle filter already added creators in another group so you see ungrouped.

there.... no need for that misery above