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I absolutely LOATH it when people post a video instead of a document or deck (except in cases when they need to demo something) because they essentially offload
by tqi 3y ago
I absolutely LOATH it when people post a video instead of a document or deck (except in cases when they need to demo something) because they essentially offload the work onto the audience. Obviously there are exceptions, but in general writing an update requires the author plan what they want to communicate. In my experience, off-the-cuff Loom videos are often rambling and verbose, and leave it to the viewer to synthesize. On top of that, videos are harder to scan, harder to search, and require headphones or a quiet space to be consumed.
- tehruhn 3y agoGood point! I think a useful addendum would be to only allow videos below a certain length - for instance, a 30 second/1 minute demonstration.
- ipaddr 3y agoIf someone is doing a walkthrough give them the three minutes
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- drcongo 3y agoI would give this post all my upvotes if I could.
- rurp 3y agoI agree with this. My company started pushing these types of short videos more and they have not been popular, at least with my peers. On the creator side it takes an awful lot of time to create a clear and concise video, especially for people who are much more used to writing docs than creating videos of themselves. Videos are a terrible medium for the audience, at least for any technical and referenceable material. They aren't searchable and are much slower to consume than text. Old videos almost never get watched, whereas some older documents get read often.