Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi...
by matiastucci on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:53AM
(#24544823)
The reason I am doing that is because there is some UI that appears _after_ you start typing in the input/text area. So I can't show the walkthrough until you do that. You can always just close the tour and interact with the page.
I'll think on how to avoid that though. Thanks for the feedback!
Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi...
by ninjaranter on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:06PM
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Pre-filling those fields, with the body text auto-selected may be a good compromise.
Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi...
by matiastucci on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:11PM
(#24545062)
you're right. Thank you!
Users wishing to quickly "scroll" through the demo, are thus prevented from using that style of perusal. Some will punt. Perhaps this is an intentional tradeoff, sacrificing some, to increase engagement of others? It might be interesting to A/B test that. Perhaps the "user provides video url" and "use example video" cases might be handled differently? Perhaps a "Continue with worked example? y/n" instead of the error, to still nudge towards engagement, but with a lower barrier to "I just want to see your thing - why are you stopping me?"?