You probably have already noticed that nowadays it's becoming fashionable online to share technical material via videos (eg YouTube.)
I somehow can understand the appeal of creating videos for sharing thoughts/news, esp b/c it takes way less time and focus compared to writing things (just hit the record button and go.)
But videos are
๐ not index-able (at least locally)
๐ not searchable
๐ not copy-paste friendly if at all
๐ impossible to skim through
๐ a major distraction from the train of thoughts
IMO, in most cases, the more effective and impactful medium of technical comms is the written form: a Mastodon toot, a blog post, a gist, a Pastebin entry or even a Facebook post!
What are your thoughts?
Some one at the last company I worked for was trying to push us to make video knowledge articles for everything we did and I actually had to go to our leadership and argue with them to make them understand how much of a waste of time that was. We had plenty of actual work to do instead of dicking around with video editing.