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Video tutorials
Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 19 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Videos are hard to search, rewind, skip and interruptUnreviewed
20122026- Hard to locate specific information in watched videos; courses move too slowly2022-05-24
- Having to wait or randomly click through a video to find information2021-11-30
- Video courses can't be searched, copied from, or skimmed, making them slow to use2021-04-28
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 19 complaints
- Mod documentation now exists only in video form, hard to scan2026-01-09
- Required model downloads aren't listed, so users must scrub through the video2026-01-04
- Hard to rewind and find the exact frame showing each button2025-09-04
- Hard to locate specific information in watched videos; courses move too slowly2022-05-24
- Having to wait or randomly click through a video to find information2021-11-30
- Must sit through 30-minute videos to find the few seconds needed2021-05-01
- Video courses can't be searched, copied from, or skimmed, making them slow to use2021-04-28
- Videos are slow and hard to search, rewind, skip and interrupt2020-05-31
- Videos can't be sped up or skipped by thumbnail, and are hard to reference2019-09-29
- Hard to find a specific point in videos; too slow to wade through2019-09-26
- Must sit through about 30 minutes to find a 20-second tip2018-06-21
- Tutorial videos waste time with setup and rambling before showing the actual menu2018-05-17
- Can't skim, search, or copy text from video tutorials2018-03-09
- Searching for fixes returns pages of step-by-step videos instead of text2018-02-09
- Learning new features from slow videos is far slower than reading text2015-06-11
- Videos need headphones, can't be paused cleanly, lose position, and buffer again when returned to2015-03-30
- Videos are too linear and hard to navigate2014-12-15
- Hard to follow video tutorials because pausing and jumping back is annoying2013-07-03
- Videos can't be searched, code can't be copied, and skipping back has loading delay2012-11-22