Website: “Use your keyboard arrows to view the story!”
Me, using an iPad: “…”
Edit: their home page for me is a black void. From their about section: “80,000+ people who care about crafting meaningful experiences for their users.”
Edit: their home page for me is a black void. From their about section: “80,000+ people who care about crafting meaningful experiences for their users.”
"Could this video tutorial have been 3 written commands?"
When reading, it's at my own pace. I can stop and go without extra steps. I can copy and paste.
If it's a video, now I have to listen at their pace (and I seem to listen slower than I read), hit pause/resume, adjust my volume because somebody on my side is making noise, go back and forth because I didn't catch something, etc.
It's a generally worse experience for me.
Otherwise, I'm with you, but I've had co-workers who loved watching YouTube videos about some language feature or another, or whatever, and did so often. I don't get it, but I guess it worked for them.