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.
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