New Way to Handle YouTube.

You can use Handy News Reader as a faster way to stay up-to-date with all the channels You are interested into (not necessarily the subscribed ones). Below You’ll find a few ideas for it - You can choose one or even combine them together, according to Your taste and needs. But first of all, let’s address

How to Subscribe a YouTube Channel.

You need to obtain its RSS address - You can do this on a PC, via a web-browser extension (here is how) - or under Android You can install NewPipe from F-Droid, open the main site of a channel and simply tap the RSS icon, then choose “Add a feed”.

An example of a YouTube channel RSS address:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ

Once You’ve added all the channels, let’s see what You can do with HNR:

All the Channels at One Glance.

One idea is to gather all the channels You are interested into - within a dedicated group. If You already use groups, You can put the new one on the very top of all the rest. Now, pull out the sidebar and unfold the YouTube group. From now on every time You pull out the sidebar, You’ll instantaneously see which channel has new videos (represented by the number next to the its name).

All the New Videos at One Glance.

Thanks to this approach You don’t even need to open HNR and pull out its sidebar to determine whether anything new has arrived or not :) . The only thing You need is to arrange all the YouTube channels into one group (as before) and then tap the group name on the sidebar to open it. Then the last step: pull out the menu (three vertical dots on the top right) and choose Create a shortcut on Home Screen › Add. A new shortcut icon should appear on the desktop. Now, every time You tap on that icon - it will show You a list of all the new videos from all Your channels (if there are any).

Prioritized Notification on All New Videos.

Another idea is to set up a notification dedicated to any new YouTube video out of all the channels You’ve gathered within HNR. You can do this by following the “Prioritized notification on all the articles from a chosen content source” section of this instruction, entering “YouTube” instead of the main domain name (step 4).