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.

  • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    115 months ago

    I think there’s something to be said for the difficulty in writing a good tutorial. I remember back in the day, before video game walk-throughs, even the text versions were often difficult to decipher.

    I also believe we have way more tutorials than we used to have, but the tools for locating good sources are focused more on making money than serving visitors.

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      5 months ago

      “Difficult to decipher”? I honestly don’t think I ever encountered this. At worst, text walkthroughs were too verbose, but that was just because they were passionate single-person projects. Can you elaborate, or do you have examples? Keep in mind I’m mostly thinking of GameFAQs-style text walkthroughs.