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 :)

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Ok, I don't know about you guys, but back when I worked for a company, we used Slack for communication. Slack is great for most things, but they just don't let you set your status to be permanently online. If you step away for a coffee or a washroom break and don't come back fast enough, there's a good chance your boss will see it. Unfortunately, not everyone has an understanding boss. And, if you're one of those people with a minute-counting pencil pusher for a boss, you'll know how bad it can be. Luckily for you, there is a way that you can bypass that pesky Slack snitching.

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I hate that BS so much. Despite the advancements in technology I feel like I can’t find anything anymore unless I know exactly what I’m looking for in advance and from whom.

I blame cooking blogs for introducing this bloat.

"First let me tell you a little about my relationshio with cinnamon... It all started 40 years ago whilst I was..."

Ah, the good old days of GameFAQs

Also back when IGN wasn't a meme

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.

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.

imo education is the single most important investment we can make, and we're failing in spectacular fashion.

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.

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.

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.

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 :)

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.

Do it

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.

Yeah, I only made it 37 seconds in. Unless you're live-streaming, edit your tutorials! People wouldn't complain about the time/length of videos as much if they were short and to-the-point. But I guess that would affect ad revenue...

Off-topic: round keys on a keyboard just feel wrong to me, and I wouldn't trust someone who uses them...