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TL;DW.

I don't watch video complaints. I don't watch most YT videos except at 2x because by time the person who made the video got started saying what they're trying to say, I could have finished a text article version of the same thing.

Most people speak way too slowly for me to be interested in what they're saying, especially when they could have written an article that is more information dense and it typically shorter in any case.

Videos have value for enhancing reports, but are mostly useless as reports themselves.

So yeah, it's too damned much to ask to watch a video.

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You know the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words"?

So yeah, a video that precisely reproduces a UI/UX bug is worth more than anything you can write about it.

Showing exactly what the problem was is much better than describing the problem. It's a lossy conversion that adds noise.

Saying this as someone who doesn't watch videos normally.


It isn't necessarily. A _bad_ video can often be worse than a bad description, because I can read a bad description and reformulate and clarify. This is compounded when the video skips the prerequisite steps that a description often needs to add.

So: TL;DW.


Sorry. That comment is too long. Didn't read. Hope you didn't waste much time on it.

Jokes aside, that video is 2:23 long and it gets to the point within the first 33 seconds, at which point they have demonstrated the issue.

You're being beyond incredibly silly right now.


Not at all.

Video-first is generally as ridiculous as SEO-driven recipes where I can't start cooking what I want to cook because I have to go through someone's nonna's best friend's sister's cooking life story.

It's great that this video gets to the point in the first 33 seconds, but make me want to watch your video.

This post made me not care.

I get video bug reports all the time at work -- but it's accompanied with a description of what the problem is that makes it worth my time to watch the video. (Sometimes, with a well-written description, I don't need the video but watch it to make sure my understanding matches.)




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