Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
by patja on Thursday November 02, 2017 @12:59PM
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I hate the trend to video as well (I can read and comprehend faster than any video can speak), but I wonder if it is just the inevitable result of the continued expansion of who is on the web. Many people in the world are not nearly as literate as HN readers.
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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
by afarrell on Thursday November 02, 2017 @01:14PM
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I think it is the result of the reduced copyability of video compared to plain text. This makes it easier to monetize video. Since lots of writers don't have a secondary source of income and have to pay for housing/food/loans/etc, they have an incentive to spend the effort to write video scripts rather than essays/articles.