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Hey all,
This is TransByDef's youtube channel's 46Th week! yay! Anyways I would like to know what you think so far? I am sure all the girls would all like to know actually. What do you think of the channel so far? any suggestions? We all love comments on our videos and compliments of course!
What you think? You like us? Hate us? do we have supporters? fans? subscribers? What? let us know!

Thank you to all!
Hugs,
*Jenny* on behalf of TransByDef

Here is a link to our channel if you haven't heard about it yet!

http://www.youtube.com/user/TransByDef?blend=9&ob=video-mustangbase (http://www.youtube.com/user/TransByDef?blend=9&ob=video-mustangbase)

TransByDef:

A trans* collaborative channel with the dual purposes of not only addressing trans issues, but providing entertainment to those in need of a break from the stress and woes transitioning can bring.

First of all, congrats on five weeks!  Now to my review...

At times, some of the videos run a bit longer than my ears and eyes can handle.  While off-topic thoughts and randomness can be interesting and entertaining, I feel it needs to be contained and balanced out with actual topical information as well.  Many times the off-topic randomness runs longer than any pertinent information.

Keep the overall discussion interesting, limited, but most of all upbeat.

You are all diverse and not afraid to show it.  Each of you bring something different to the channel and overall concept, and I feel that's vital to its existence and continuing popularity, as well as admirable in regards to each of you ladies individually.

Nonetheless, you're all doing a great job!

  I want to see more of JoeyD, she is pretty cool!!  :)

Quote from: Asha on January 06, 2012, 12:53:48 AM

  I want to see more of JoeyD, she is pretty cool!!  :)

This

Quote from: Aymzie on January 06, 2012, 12:25:41 AM
First of all, congrats on five weeks!  Now to my review...

At times, some of the videos run a bit longer than my ears and eyes can handle.  While off-topic thoughts and randomness can be interesting and entertaining, I feel it needs to be contained and balanced out with actual topical information as well.  Many times the off-topic randomness runs longer than any pertinent information.

Keep the overall discussion interesting, limited, but most of all upbeat.

You are all diverse and not afraid to show it.  Each of you bring something different to the channel and overall concept, and I feel that's vital to its existence and continuing popularity, as well as admirable in regards to each of you ladies individually.

Nonetheless, you're all doing a great job!

This pretty much sums up my thoughts.  I've watched a few videos, but I sometimes struggle to stay interested for the whole time.  Having said that, I keep watching as they are a great source of inspiration and generally quite entertaining.

Thank you all  for your responses!  ;D

"I want to see more of JoeyD, she is pretty cool!! " We agree with you and think she is too! We all hope to have her back on soon!

This is all good to know. What is a good time frame, under 9 minutes or less?

Nine minutes or less would be perfect.

But I wouldn't go too short either...I'd say five to seven minutes would be an ideal range, in my opinion.

 ;

Quote from: BrokenCode on January 07, 2012, 09:54:55 PM
This is all good to know. What is a good time frame, under 9 minutes or less?

You know I'm gonna have to buy a buzzer! My kitchen timer might work!

We now have a page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/transbydef (http://www.facebook.com/#!/transbydef)

You guys are great!

Thank you Ava, and thank you to all of our fans!

I enjoy watching your channel

I'm subscribed to TransByDef and TransYouthChannel. I watch them both regularly as they appear in my subscriptions.        :)

Just subscribed, been jumping from video to video. I agree that the videos do seem a bit long an rambling at times.

I'm sure in time the videos will get more streamlined (or not) depending on the topic.

Keep it up! I look forward to watching more.

 :o 425 Subcribers! yay!

 Subbed, i'll have to revisit this page to comment after i've watched some vids but it looks like a dope channel :)

It's a really interesting channel, from the little I've seen.

However, I think it sort of has the same problem as vlogs and such: long videos of pure speaking in front of a camera... which tends to be hard to follow. I don't know if it's because of my ADD, but either way, I've got to be really, really interested in a video to follow it through 10 whole minutes if there's not much interaction or movement.

So I think that perhaps it would be good to either write down the contents of the video in the description, since text is much easier to follow, especially if it has titles and well-separated paragraphs. Plus, you can easily skip to the part about what interests you in a text without missing things, and there's Ctrl-F, too. But I realise this is way too much work.

So maybe, instead, when there's a 10-minute video that speaks of many sub-subjects, you could either make many 1-3-minute videos, either add clickable "YouTube anchor links" with titles, with which we could skip to the subportion we want. That way, it would be much more practical.

Also, I think you could use a Web page (or even simply a forum topic! Simple, and it would work just as well) to reference your videos, with an "index" of links, titles and perhaps descriptions. Because even if you make playlists and all, no matter how I look at it, YouTube channels are messy and sort of a pain to search through.

Finally, perhaps you could think of adding a part for guys. I'm sure they would love to be included in this interesting project. And, well, it says "TransByDef", not just "MTFTransByDef"~.

The bottom line is: this is an interesting project, and if I'm making all those comments, it's 'cause I like it, and as a perfectionist, I want the things that I like to improve.