Took me a while to figure out it was more than a gif.... on hacker news. Eventually I clicked and figured out it was a slideshow. Is it possible to go back a slide?
I installed the app, and part of the welcome tutorial was that they seemed excited about how you couldn't go backwards "so take your time". They advocate using it for "storytelling": it seems like an irritating medium for a semi-scientific slide deck.
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?
If the slide's author is really trying to demonstrate the effectiveness of network graphs, then he needs to find a different presentation platform. The conclusions come after the graphics, and there's no way for the reader to go back and analyze them for himself. No one likes being led around by the nose. Pass.
To all the nay-sayers (sibling to this comment here), I just want to say: I thought the talk (er, slide show) was very, very interesting. I didn't even notice anything special about the slide-show.
It worked for me. ("worked" as in: made me intrigued about an interesting topic.)
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?
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Took me a while to figure out it was more than a gif.... on hacker news. Eventually I clicked and figured out it was a slideshow. Is it possible to go back a slide?
I installed the app, and part of the welcome tutorial was that they seemed excited about how you couldn't go backwards "so take your time". They advocate using it for "storytelling": it seems like an irritating medium for a semi-scientific slide deck.
It's in their About page (https://readtapestry.com/about#) too:
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?
Or, accidentally click too many times, skipping a slide?
If the slide's author is really trying to demonstrate the effectiveness of network graphs, then he needs to find a different presentation platform. The conclusions come after the graphics, and there's no way for the reader to go back and analyze them for himself. No one likes being led around by the nose. Pass.
I couldn't figure out a way to go back a slide—very frustrating.
and there is no way of telling if the presentation is 17 or 159 slides. this site sucks.
To all the nay-sayers (sibling to this comment here), I just want to say: I thought the talk (er, slide show) was very, very interesting. I didn't even notice anything special about the slide-show.
It worked for me. ("worked" as in: made me intrigued about an interesting topic.)
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.
Get the app!
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?
I was being sarcastic and pointing out how silly it is to make an app to just show a single slide deck.