A couple of months back I started work on cutting down the DConf Online 2020 Q & A videos that I had uploaded to the D Language Foundation's YouTube channel. For the original uploads, I simply cut them out of the live stream, added a title and some fades, then uploaded with no edits.

A few months later I realized how silly that was thanks to a user comment. There was too much dead air and a good bit of irrelevant chatter. YouTube doesn't allow a video to be replaced once it's uploaded---each new upload gets a unique URL. So I was hoping to get them edited in place via YouTube's built-in editor, but after learning of a couple of longstanding bugs (one of which hit me), I abandoned that idea. The DLF took a vote and I got the greenlight to upload new videos and remove the old ones.

And so I began chipping away at the originals to cut them down and keep them focused on the actual Q & A bits. This has resulted in much shorter videos, close to 40 minutes shorter in a couple of cases.

Today I finally uploaded and published the last one. All of them are available via the DConf Online 2020 Q & A playlist (you can recognize them by the (v2.0) in their titles).

Awesome, properly tedious, work.

Thank you

properly -> probably