It's in their About page (https://readtapestry.com/about#) too:

>> It's simple: tap to move forward in a story. There’s no going back, so take your time—that’s the whole point!

Not allowing the viewer to know how many slides there are and navigate between them is a terrible, terrible idea.

I think Mike Bostok's Stack is worth a mention: http://mbostock.github.io/stack/#0

Yeah, the most annoying thing ever. Didn't they ever attend a real presentation where people actually asked questions about things that were shown on past slides?

I don't mean to pick on you, but this is the problem traditional learners have with internet-generation learners: You were successfully "intrigued." Hurray. Much dopamine was produced. Emotional energy is valuable in learning. However, since there's no back button you can't go back and analyze the data your own way to create your own meanings or find errors and nuances. It's a sugar hit with an opinion tied to it.

An employee or friend who is able to intrigue me but not show me deeper information such as nuances and contradictions is not useful to me. I don't want to be merely intrigued all day and I don't want to facilitate experiences of "intrigue" in others all day. There's got be some protein along with those carbs.

If I've got a shitty experience, then the solution is not "get the app", then the solution is to go away - why would I expect that the app is any less shitty?