Nebula

Hide & seek across Switzerland. Season premiers February 28th on Nebula.

2 month update: Just got this mail

So that would also indicate double charging.

Answer: The charge is immediate, but the 12-month plan starts when the bundle access ends.

Original question: Got the info that my curiositystream bundle, started mid april, wouldn't renew. I canceled the bundle on curiositystreams side and used the process the unbundle page guides you through to change to a regular subscription. Which worked fine. But the subscription price got charged immediately, and I now have two subscriptions listed in my account: !

The confirmation reads >Thank you for purchasing a subscription to Nebula. > >Subscription: Yearly >Purchase Date: February 21, 2024 >Amount: $30 USD

Am I essentially getting double charged for 2 months here? If so, what would have been the right procedure?

The content we need right now! This is one of my favorite channels. He doesn't usually address politics so overtly, so if that's not your thing then I recommend checking out his other videos on urbanism.

I've been getting into, It's probably (not) Aliens. Somthing fun for long bus rides.

I'm not able to listen to or download or listen to anything right now though.

I've also noticed it's not on down detector so it's a bit difficult to tell of it's just a me problem or not.

It seems that Second Thought (and their second channel, First Thought) has been silently removed from Nebula, with no comment from them or anyone on Nebula's side.

There's some context in the comments of a couple of reddit threads about this, that have been deleted on the Nebula subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebula/comments/17be8bf/second_thoughts_channel_being_removed_from_nebula/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebula/comments/17bav9j/what_happened_to_firstsecond_thought/

I got my subscription a few weeks ago. I'm kinda regretting going for a 1 year sub.

For one I thought both Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey where on here only to learn they both backed out of the project.

According to Wendovers video https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-how-a-small-group-of-creators-built-a-150-million-business/. I get the sense this happened around the same time they sold a good chunk of the company to Discovery.

Seeing all the creators hang out on a yacht isn't exactly a selling point for me as a subscriber who's struggling to make rent.

I'm also pretty disappointed by the lack of some features. Many of the videos don't even have captions and the ones that do are using a poor quality auto capture. I also really want comments. I know YouTube comments are known for being utterly terrible, but education is a conversation and with channels like these commenters can provide a lot of added educational value.

Also the history feature would be pretty handy. I go down rabbit holes then totally forget where I left off when logging back in.

And even shorts, creators use those. I hate the YouTube shorts but if I where to abandon YouTube I'll lose out on that content. By using shorts the content creators are keeping me going to YouTube .

I've also noted a lot of content is still formatted to YouTube. They have the click boxes at the end for more videos wich isn't a function in Nebula. It's like the videos are ending with a broken UI.

Overall I'm seeing a lot of effort to make the platform appealing to creators. However, there's much less effort in appealing to subscribers. Long term that seems like it's going to cause the whole thing to fail.

> Advertising Partners. We may also share personal information with third parties who we partner with for advertising campaigns or that collect information about your activity on the Services for the purposes described in the "Interest-Based Advertising" section above.

It's a paid service, wtf is this BS

Their final reply: > I wanted to reach out as a followup to your earlier request. I spoke with some members of our product team, and it would actually appear as though we don't currently support users opting out of that particular clause in our terms of service. I also wanted to let you know that we don’t currently share user info with third parties for advertising, and as far as I can tell, we have no roadmapped plans for doing so in the future.

I like Nebula and has a subscription for a year, but I realized I never used it because it didn't have an app for my Samsung TV, and screen casting was too inconvenient because my phone was practically unusable while casting unless I wanted to not see the video. Any ideas?

I've been on nebula for a while now. A thing that I miss compared YouTube is the comment section.

It allows interaction between creators and viewers as well as amongst viewers themselves. I love picking up details in the comments about the video I'm watching or just watched.

The idea has been floating around for over 3 years on this now declining platform. https://www.reddit.com/r/watchnebula/comments/foqjt1/nebula_comment_section/

Given that Lemmy is decentralized, I can totally see the Nebula team integrating comments through a Lemmy instance.

What do do you all think?

I've really been enjoying Unrated, Jesse Gender, and City Nerd. Unrated is a Nebula exclusive, I think, and Jesse and City Nerd already have pretty big followings elsewhere. I enjoy a variety of videos, so what else should I be watching??

Especially with the reddit stuff going on, I found the commentary on self-regulation of behavior with respect to public opinion to be interesting

This whole series is really fascinating - seeing a modern card counter from the beginning and what he has to deal with is a cool documentary