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I never understood why HN likes slideshows so much. Am I the only one who finds them completely, 100% useless without the audio of the presentation?
by sker 11y ago
I never understood why HN likes slideshows so much. Am I the only one who finds them completely, 100% useless without the audio of the presentation?
- geoelectric 11y agoDepends. Sometimes people write slideshows for internet sharing, in which case they're crappy presentations but text-heavy enough to be effective. Netflix's classic "Culture Deck" is a decent example there. But the ones that are good for presentations--that is to say, visual interest hooks, not the info being repeated--yeah, not great unless they include an audio track or something. Edit: this one's somewhere in the middle.
- brlewis 11y agoThis one was maybe 15% useless. Most slides made sense without the audio. Slide-size chunks of information can be a really good format.
- s_dev 11y agoDepends on the slides really - you're right though some of them need their context to be meaningful. Doesn't have to be audio a scrollable transcript could suffice.
- bshimmin 11y agoYou really aren't. I have never made it through more than about 10 or 15 slides in a deck, and this was no exception. The text version of a talk, however, can be a wondrous thing, and here's a great example: http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm
- gweinberg 11y agoI agree. Transcript without the slides, almost as good as both. Just slides withouyt transcript or audio, shit sandwich.
- wil421 11y agoI didnt even realize it was a slideshow. No arrows or icons you can click to go to the next/previous slide and nothing on the website saying its a slideshow. Thanks for your comment. After I read it I went back and clicked an arrow key and the cubeshow started.
- cgag 11y agoArrow keys just scroll around for me, I can't see any slides but the first. Thanks javascript.
- iamthepieman 11y agonope. Even worse are ones that don't indicate visually what they are and I stare at the screen for 20 seconds waiting for it to finish loading and wondering why my scroll wheel isn't working.
- mcintyre1994 11y agoIt's literally unreadable on my Nexus 7. For some reason a bunch of slides render empty, the ones that do render load really slowly and often stop part way through rendering leaving partial text that is occasionally readable.