When I use the internet to learn, I don’t want to have to spend 2 minutes watching an advert, then try to decipher an accent I can barely understand whilst a 15 year old speed runs the task whilst seemingly skipping crucial steps in a video.
I want the steps written down. Maybe with diagrams.
I’m old. Learning is hard enough.
Abso-fucking-lutely!!
It’s another example of how modern tech
ishas forgotten how to be “humane” (Look up Bret Victor and his philosophies on tech if you’re keen on deep diving on this more) … that is, actually good for humans and not merely the best way to make profit. And so the promise of tech to help and solve problems, given how many resources are being poured into it, is often looking like a failure.I am always saying reddit and discord are killing the use of forums and therefore are killing a lot of content that would be accesible and readable for people in the future. Discord is my main problem with that. Back in the days games had their own forums and people would post guides and they could be sticked to the top. But in discord servers so often you just have long ass on going conversations that hardly give you any information. It is nice to have the option to chat and look for groups and the abillity to immediatly join a group voice chat with said people.
A friend send me a link from a reddit post with same topic but it was french and i dont use reddit anymore. But i miss the small communities for games like Dungeon Crawl by Stone Soup, some good old roguelike :)
I was complaining about this at work recently. I can skim an article in 2 minutes instead of watching a 15 minute video. Half of my co-workers were confused by someone choosing to read. Also, same with podcasts - i didn’t need jokes and stupid chit chat - just give me the facts and move on.
Yep. I’ve reached the point of wanting all information on the internet in Wikipedia format.
Depends on the case. For example for short tutorials that could have been maybe 3 sentences should not be in a video format. However for stuff like jailbreaking a PS3 I would rather use a video tutorial because I will do many things I don’t know, one after another. Video will assure me I am doing things correct.
Or just understand what an action does before you try it on your technology
Ahh yes, the 15 min video that should have been 3 bullet points.
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I even hate the sound of the voice my head made up to read this in
I really want to vote this down because it is textbook cancer youtube but I have to respect the precise craftsmanship.
What if all text tutorials became this? Recipe websites are already this way.
Yeah recipe sites are the worst. I get it if they truly want to share their personal story about the recipe, but I’m sure many just do it for SEO
This is so horrifyingly accurate it gave me a headache
Like all the other replies …
- On one hand … fuck you, you awful person, why would you put me through that
- On the other hand … you are a treasure and a master craftsperson and ought to be celebrated for the mirror you hold up to society
… sometimes … fucking “modern hustle” youtube … just come on!
EDIT: just to be clear, this was wonderful and thank you, I’m being mostly facetious here.
10/10.
Pro tip: When you start a YouTube video and it’s seeming like this, push 3. It will skip you to 30% into the video, which is usually right around when the relevant part starts.
Here, going by character count, it puts you halfway through the last sentence of the sponsorship, which isn’t bad, though this example is particularly eregious and doesn’t start the real instructions until you’re about 59% through.
Read it faster than seeing it on video at 2.5x
I’d like to learn the game engine Godot but all the lessons are videos. It’s much harder to learn in the livingroom and write code when you’re learning from a video
Oh. That is where all the useful information is. I have been struggling with it for weeks and finally managed to get something working. Is it done the right way? Who knows! Their documentation is sometimes rather less than helpful. If their website decides to behave. Sometimes it goes a little wonky, though it has been better the last couple weeks.
Brackeys recently made Godot video tutorials. You have been missing out.
I may take a look, but I am doing everything in C#. I have a really hard time paying attention to videos, especially if it is a bunch of content/features/examples where only a small part pertains to what I am doing. I would also have to start and stop constantly to try and take notes and hope the auto caption works. ADHD woes. Hopefully they supply all of the source code and project files.
C#
Yeah, all the good resources are for GDScript
I remember downloading game walkthroughs and it came as a downloadable text file. Had sooo much content, awesome ascii art, and you could tell the person made it did so because they enjoyed it and wanted you too
At my first job, I printed out the ~85 page guide for GTA Vice City to have for reference while playing without having to get up and go to the computer.
while playing without having to get up and go to the computer
That took me a full minute to understand…
Ah, the good old days of GameFAQs
Also back when IGN wasn’t a meme
It’s not just gaming tutorials, nowadays even some programming documentation comes in video format 🤢
Feel it. Sometimes prefer a video in certain circumstances. Those who offer both are tops.
A limited, imperfect solution: add “transcript” after YouTube in the URL.
Can try to use control/command F to find relevant parts.
Gamefaqs, but for life, please!
I’ll spend 15 minutes scouring forums to avoid watching a 5 minute tutorial video. Having an actual written guide is so much more useful
The worst is when I had scoured all the forums and as a last resort I turn to videos, which turn out to just be reading the same forum post.
And I have to stop listening to my music :(
The worst part about video tutorials: you can’t CTRL + F, search, specific things. You can’t jump straight to your problem. The best you can do is skip to a point where it may be what you actually need to know.
For game walkthroughs, you could just ctrl-f the spot you needed to know about. On a recipe, ctrl-f “boil at” or “bake at” to check the correct temperature and time. On programming, ctrl-f the function name or part of the line you suppose might be where your problem is.
Video? Gotta remember the fucking timestamps. Google doesn’t help by pushing youtube at every opportunity and downplaying every small blog, either.
auto-transcripting tech has come a LONG way. I use it all the time for referencing things I’ve heard in a podcast and want to share or w/e
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The irony is that a video could technically be shorter than reading (you can speak and listen faster than writing and reading). Except that most video tutorials have 15-20 minutes of bullshit before it gets to the actual tutorial.
I would love to meet the person who speaks faster than I can read :)
The thing with reading though, is that you can skim text to find the relevant pieces and go through it in a non-linear way. Even if a video was short and to the point, I’d still have to watch it from start to end.
This has come up a few times and I agree: I vastly prefer text in most cases.
However! I learned that something like half of US adults cannot read at a 6th grade level.
Everyone here, on a heavy text based forum, is probably able to read English. But for a lot of people who probably aren’t going to post here, reading can be stressful, frustrating, and embarrassing.
So that sucks. We should probably be investing in education instead of whatever idiocy venture capital is setting on fire this week.
Making it a video would just decrease the reading levels over time wouldn’t it? Also this may sound bad, but there isn’t much content out there a 6th grade reading level can’t decipher. Instructions aren’t about breaking down what meaning they really might have had. I don’t need to figure out the underlying meaning of animal farm during “loosen 6 10mm lugnuts” or “enter dsregcmd /status and check the provision status at the bottom.”. With each line being discussed I don’t need to examine the underlying text. Most everything in life is able to be done at a reading level of 6th grade.
Wish it were higher, but that isn’t our biggest failure in education right now in my opinion.
imo education is the single most important investment we can make, and we’re failing in spectacular fashion.
That is literally the intention of a large group of very rich people, it is going as intended.
Yes totally, but counter to that there are still an awful lot of places where internet is borderline dialup and access to information is still primarily text based. Furthermore, translating text under these conditions is considerably easy than translating audio.
Investing in education on a global level, as opposed to a US level is a question of access and infrastructure.
And Discord is not a substitute for documentation.
It’s like anti-documentation
I am always saying reddit and discord are killing the use of forums and therefore are killing a lot of content that would be accesible and readable for people in the future. Discord is my main problem with that. Back in the days games had their own forums and people would post guides and they could be sticked to the top. But in discord servers so often you just have long ass on going conversations that hardly give you any information. It is nice to have the option to chat and look for groups and the abillity to immediatly join a group voice chat with said people.
A friend send me a link from a reddit post with same topic but it was french and i dont use reddit anymore. But i miss the small communities for games like Dungeon Crawl by Stone Soup, some good old roguelike :)
