Suggestion: split up Favorites and Likes, or add icon for Watch Later

[deleted] My original suggestion is more about making a separation between "I approve of this video" and "I want this in my collection", which SLR currently conflates. It's not supposed to be "like" and "also like". On VT you don't have a real way to look at what you've thumbs-upped, just what you've favorited for your collection. Right now, for SLR thumbs-upping is adding to your collection, so you have to keep what you approve, and vice versa.

Having a Watch Later icon would help and basically work the same way as "like" and "collect", but ideally it'd be something that you can click/unclick while browsing, like the current heart; I'd want it to be as convenient to use as hearting is now. Having it purely be visual and still needing to go into the menu dropdown to add things to Watch Later would be less usable.

petermc I think it's doable, but it's not nearly as convenient to manage the Watch Later list as it is the hearts, because you have to click on the submenu for every video when browsing to check whether it's on the list or not, and your focus has to switch from the submenu button to the Watch Later status in the menu every time, which is awkward. When using hearts, you don't ever have to context switch; whether something is in your collection or not is shown right with the video listing.

Having a visible icon for videos marked as Watch Later would help save on the video-by-video checking, and even better if it's clickable so you don't have to go to the submenu at all. Frankly I think if it's not as easy to use as the hearts, then most people will still gravitate towards using those to track their collection first.

sixfgrs They're using pink and gray. That's interesting that it's so hard to tell apart for you; I wonder if it's because they're similarly bright. This could be also solved if the hearts in the browsing section were changed to be an outline when not selected, rather than just being color swapped, so you could tell by the shape that it's different.

I've tested using the Watch Later playlist rather than hearts to track my collection, and while it does feel good to contribute my tiny bit to the rating of the movies I like, it's definitely more painful to use. The biggest issue I have with it still turns out to be visibility; when browsing videos or looking at an individual entry, I simply can't tell whether it's on my Watch Later playlist unless I have it memorized or I click into the triple-dot submenu just to see its status, which is a huge hassle. So, @[deleted]'s suggestion about adding a Watch Later icon would be a big help. I'd still prefer the icon to be as easy to interact with as the hearts are with their one-click convenience, but just showing some sort of indicator of a movie's status on the Watch Later list without having to click into each movie's menu would still be a substantial improvement.

@[deleted] I noticed that the Watch Later icon has turned into a bookmark and there are now little blue bookmarks you can check next to movies, which is awesome. One thing I would note though is that when you go into the movie details, I'd also expect the same bookmark icon to be available, next to the larger heart counter on the right. Currently the bookmarks are only visible when viewing lists.