Tony Finchlinkspam!
Youtube2Webpage, if you much better from text than from videos.
https://github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpage
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Simon Tatham@fanf I just can't even from videos
Mark Dominus
NotBlackMagic@mjd @simontatham @fanf Ok, at the risk of getting booed here, I sometimes use videos when I'm totally lost. Sometimes, interfaces change, and some written documentations are not updated. With a visual, you immediately notice the difference instead of searching for an option that got removed or renamed anyways. I guess, accompanying a wiki or written doc with screenshots would do that, too.
arclight@CASSCFenjoyer @mjd @simontatham @fanf Given the garbage state of UI design and the abandonment of UI design standards, a video may be the only way to quickly and effectively explain a complex* or nonstandard* UI. Add to this dynamic* UIs with no clear way to reset the UI to a familiar or default condition.
An exercise: Verbally explain how to do a task or change settings in a modern GUI application that lacks standard UI elements like menu bars or uses non-standard icon sets.
This is not arguing the superiority of video, it's more an indictment of the utter trash fire that is phone app/web app UI design and the vacuous and user-hostile designers and product managers who inflict their incompetence and churn on hapless users and admins every damn day. Video documentation is often a Band-Aid applied to the sucking chest wound of a bad UI.
[*] Feel free to prefix with the word "needlessly"