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I miss text-based tutorials (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.