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I just love the old school look of this, but at the same time wish he had a YouTube channel to explain all this.
by orangetea 6y ago
I just love the old school look of this, but at the same time wish he had a YouTube channel to explain all this.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoIt would be completely against the point of the site. I'm surprised it even bothers with HTTPS.
- StavrosK 6y agoAgreed, I hate YouTube videos for instructional content. I can read much faster than the instructor can speak, I can ctrl+f, and webpages don't tend to pad their content to fill a 12-minute video for 10 seconds of actual content. My only gripe is that the page's margins aren't a bit more narrow.
- _Microft 6y agoA lot of videos on Youtube have automatically generated transcripts available via a menu item in the three-dot menu. Once the transcript is opened, you can use your browser's search function to search it.
- StavrosK 6y agoI love you.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoThe problem is that (most) Youtube videos are not people reading a technical document. It is geared toward "speaking" meaning that a lot of information is not covered due to time constraints.
- robin_reala 6y agoYmmv with non-US accents.
- superhuzza 6y ago>My only gripe is that the page's margins aren't a bit more narrow. Agreed, I use a chrome extension 'Just Read' to fix websites that do this.
- abraae 6y agoHeh. I love no margin design like this. It's a counter to the gratuitous"more whitespace" design foisted on the internet by zealous web designers.
- StavrosK 6y agoI agree in general, I just find super-wide pages hard to read, and think there's a lot of middle ground between super-wide and "full of whitespace".
- beervirus 6y agoThen don't maximize your browser.
- garaetjjte 6y agoIt might be too obvious to point out, but.. browser window is resizable.
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- Yetanfou 6y agoJust adjust the width of your browser window to whatever width you prefer and the text will follow. That is, after all, what a browser was supposed to do: show text. If you use Firefox you can also open the inspector and select a mobile view (the two-screen icon top-right in the inspector frame/window) but that is more work for the same effect.
- StavrosK 6y agoI generally just use the built-in reader view, so it's not really that much hassle, it's just slightly more work. Plus, reader view gets rid of all of the styles on the page, which would be nice to avoid.
- userbinator 6y agoA long time ago I found most YouTube videos were still completely comprehensible in 1.5x to 2x speed, depending on the exact speaker, and have been watching them at that speed ever since. Not just education but entertainment. On the other hand, the downside is that you get used to that speed, and listening to people talk in realtime feels abysmally slow. Others may also ask you to slow down more frequently.
- StavrosK 6y agoI do that with audiobooks as well, and when I set it to 1x speed it feels like the person is speaking intentionally super slow to make fun of the listener, it's odd. 2x is a much better speed, but still, it's annoying to have to watch 6 minutes of video to get the single sentence you want.
- nabilhat 6y agoThe layout's been just like this since last century. It was an appreciated feature when we were all on dialup, and at the time I found readability to be no problem on a 17" CRT monitor (10.5" x 14") at 800x600 resolution. I can confirm it doesn't translate well to a modern ultrawide monitor.
- myself248 6y agoThat's when I just resize my window to flow the text to my desired width. I appreciate having the control in my hands, not theirs.