The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...
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@Daojoan all compounded by the fact that the vast majority of people uploading instructional videos are *monumentally fucking shit* at instructing. Teaching is a skill, and most people who try to do it just leave you wanting to punch them repeatedly for being so obliviously bad at it
@Daojoan and the first two minutes telling you how "we're gonna jump right into it."
@Daojoan but on the plus side: you can use the YouTube "ai" to turn the video into a longer-winded text full of errors!
@Daojoan Videos are so slow! I’d rather read quick steps than watch someone talk forever. Where’s the simple guide when you need it?
@Daojoan That is so true. I believe it's all about two factors, the easier "stream of thought speaking" (against writing a correct text) and the desire to show off themselves, before any technical content
@Daojoan it sure does look like that a lot of times, you are right. Awful...
"How to save your Google Doc"
00:00 Why digital files need to be saved
07:24 A history of save icons
23:32 Formats used by different office tools
31:56 Famous errors caused by not saving files
58:45 Saving files in Google Docs
And all to say "they save automatically".
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@Daojoan I so much dislike this fact, stopping and starting and going back over the video, the irritations like voice tone and speed, the digressions and emotional notes, ugh, please, just express the knowledge in clearly written form.
The video is interrupted by an advertisement every few minutes. Very irritating.
@Daojoan My own experience is that if you maintain a technical blog then bots will turn that into video anyways. One of them was kind enough to mention my unique username, and so I found it when doing an egosearch for that page to send someone a link.
@Daojoan Absolutely agree. To everyone making tutorials, DON'T START WITH YOUR LIFE STORY!, just get to the point.
It should be noted that they got it from somewhere; user manuals are also almost always paragraphs or pages of barely subject-adjacent slog before getting to anything the the thing does & even then it's somehow over- & underexplained at the same time.
There's a reason teaching is something you train for; it's actually pretty difficult to do well.
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Truly the pivot to video is complete.
One of the worst things about this timeline.
@Daojoan forget code, it takes me *forever* to learn video games now for the same reason.
@CartyBoston @Daojoan
I understand that a factor in that is that "Fandom" (nee Wikia) goes out of its way to attempt to buy every single wiki for every single game, and tries to find excuses to sue any they don't own (like someone phrasing the same basic info the same way). I've heard that they own GameFAQs these days too, which is part of why people barely contribute to that anymore.
Wish I had ideas for how to shatter that particular master of the universe.
@Daojoan forget code, it takes me *forever* to learn video games now for the same reason.
@Daojoan Big part of the problem is how they monetize information. A video forces you to "stay", whether 5 mins or less. A text, like others commented here, is more difficult to monetize. I miss the old days of the internet when it was truly about sharing knowledge and info, far away from metrics and clicks
