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Yet the most popular platforms on the planet have people pointing a finger (or several) at a picture. And the most popular media format on the planet is and wi
by oblio 11mo ago
Yet the most popular platforms on the planet have people pointing a finger (or several) at a picture.
And the most popular media format on the planet is and will be (for the foreseeable future), video. Video is only limited by our capacity to produce enough of it at a decent quality, otherwise humanity is definitely not looking back fondly at BBSes and internet forums (and I say this as someone who loves forums).
GenAI will definitely need better UIs for the kind of universal adoption (think smartphone - 8/9 billion people).
- Vegenoid 11mo ago> Video is only limited by our capacity to produce enough of it at a decent quality, otherwise humanity is definitely not looking back fondly at BBSes and internet forums Video is limited by playback speed. It is a time-dependent format. Efforts can be made to enable video to be viewable at a range of speeds, but they are always somewhat constrained. Controlling video playback to slow down and rewatch certain parts is just not as nice as dealing with the same thing in text (or static images), where it’s much easier to linger and closely inspect parts that you care more about or are struggling to understand. Likewise, it’s easier to skim text than video. This is why many people prefer transcripts, or articles, or books over videos. I seriously doubt that people would want to switch text-based forums to video if only video were easier to make. People enjoy writing for the way it inspires a different kind of communication and thought. People like text so much that they write in journals that nobody will ever see, just because it helps them organize their thoughts.
- oblio 11mo agoYou (and I) live in entirely different world from that of regular people, who read at most 1 book per year and definitely do not write journals that nobody will ever see. You're talking about 10-20% of the population, at most.
- Al-Khwarizmi 11mo agoWhatsApp is primarily a text-based chat interface and it has pretty much universal adoption in the countries where it's popular.
- oblio 11mo agoI guess you haven't been in enough group chats. There's a reason it has dedicated emoji button with GIFs, avatars, stickers.
- bergheim 11mo agoWhich is, of course, not how people primarily communicate on WhatsApp (or any communication based app). People don't send streams of videos to each other in group chats. They write text and add gif memes.
- oblio 11mo agoI would send a semi funny emoji riddled message but HN won't let me, for obvious reasons.